

When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man
Author: Nick Dybek
Narrator: Nicholas Dressel
Unabridged: 7 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Published: 04/02/2013
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Author: Nick Dybek
Narrator: Nicholas Dressel
Unabridged: 7 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Published: 04/02/2013
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Nick Dybek is a recipient of a Granta New Voices selection, a Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, and a Maytag Fellowship. He received a BA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He teaches at Oregon State University. He is the author of When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man and The Verdun Affair.
While first-time novelist Nick Dybek made it quite obvious that his book was meant to be a modern take on TREASURE ISLAND, for this reader it simply didn't work. Too long by at least a hundred pages, WHEN CAPTAIN FLINT WAS STILL A GOOD MAN is fatally flawed by a surplus of simply awful metaphors and......more
The title of this book, and the setting on the pacific northwest were what drew me in. Unfortunately, they were also what kept me reading and the bulk of my thoughts since completing the book has been of those two things, and, primarily the former. If not for those two, there is a good chance I woul......more
Very literate and well-written, with some really great lines and very well-drawn setting, characterization, and plot. It's also very much an intense read...sort of like a thriller but with very different elements from your average thriller. I read it as often and for as long at a time as I could. Al......more