favourite sea novels

Tim,

Welcome. Nice to have another Tim around.

TGoz

 

You're right, lazey. It's quite a while since I read "Trustee..." and I remembered it for the wonderful relationships between Keith Stewart and the various people who helped him along the way. Forgot there's sea stuff, too. Hmmmmm, perhaps it's time I read it again.

 

Now there's a book to make you think. The best apopalyptic novel since "On the Beach". Brinkley here is like Conrad: dark, brooding, introspective. Not a light read for the beach!

By the way, Welcome to the forum, timshwak.

 

Can I suggest you take a break from creaking timbers and whistling stays. Have a squint at John Mortimer's 'Summer's lease'. OK nothing to do with the sea...but I'll guarantee 90 percent of you recognise yourselves as Haverford Downs - the 'narrator's' father. It's a ripper. Funny, social commentary, and a murder mystery all in one. A great piece of writing (and God I hate the ******* for his style....)

 

Thanks for the welcome Timgoz and Charmc. If you are into futuristic submarine stories check out an author named Joe Buff. He has several books in a series. Fast paced...

 

my fave Conrad was Typhoon, but can you imagine today a title, ****** of the Narcissus? I mean I wonder if it's still in print?
Maclean was a writer, so I dunno how he wrote such a graphic as he did in Ullysis, , cant find my copy, but I would say he would have had to sit down and be more than just briefed, by a seaman, an officer and a first rate RN navigater .
Conrad had been there
So when is your big saga arriving Bergs?
The Case Of The Trawled Canberra Secrets?
or
Survive The Svage Drought

Survive the Savage Sea, was a true account of a 110 days, or was it 180, survival of a Brit family whose oaken sailing vessel was deep sixed by orcas in the Pacific

 

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Funny that should come up in the Forum. I am actually reading that very book right now.

Mychael

 

These are the kind of books that once I out down I cant pick them up again.

 

Is that trouble with bending; onset of old age...or have you been abusing yourself again...

 

Fourite sea novels

Lazey - I'm afraid no big sea saga from me. I've been wrestling with the 'Great Australian Novel' for the past 20 years - looking to finish it sometime in the next two decades...However (and this is structly between me and you...not a word to the other guys on the forum or I'd never be allowed back on) I do make a 'reasonable' living dashing off Mills and Boons under an assumed name....

 

So how many times a week do you write the word "tumescence"?

 

Ah bless you Charlie, but you're an old fashioned boy..now-a-days the buzz words are: "His manhood stiffened within her...." (how come we don't have a vomiting smiley ?????)

 

Here ya go.




TGoz

 

Gosh Tim...And I thought that was you talking politics...

 

Back on topic ....

While not a novel, Gavin Young's "In Search of Conrad" is a fascinating account of Young's sea voyages around Indonesia and Southeast Asia visiting all of the places described in Conrad's books.