Wake of the Perdido Star

I picked up this book because I’d seen it mentioned as a “swashbuckling sea adventure” with plenty of action and piracy. However, reading it, I was reminded that when I was a kid I went through a big phase of reading lots of historical nautical books, both fiction and non-fiction. (There were lots of......more

Great read Nice book with an engaging story line. Sadly, it was over before I was ready for it to end! Bummer!......more

I will admit that I chose this book because Gene Hackman co-wrote it and I was curious. I was very pleasantly surprised at the writing quality. The story, set in the very early 1800s, has an authentic feel, almost Herman Melville-ish in style. The terminology and sentence structures, especially the......more

Mooi, maar vaak een bitter verhaal van het verlies van oa. jeugd. Zeer goed geschreven. Goed corny einde ook.......more

Wow, Gene Hackman can really write as well as act! He should try his hand at writing screenplays--including perhaps an filmic adaptation of this very novel! An entertaining and rousing maritime action-adventure novel and revenge tale set in first decade of 19th-century America. It follows the advent......more