Buccaneer Books

I couldn't have timed my reading of this book any better. The book's treatment of the artistic conciousness vs. the social conscience is excellent. Nadine Gordimer is one of the very few authors who has managed to indulge her creative side and be an activist for social change. This inspires me.

If you want real African literature, skip Poisonwood Bible, and read Nadine Gordimer's Lying Days. She powerfully reveals the many layers of South African life back in the days of the Struggle without advancing her own political agenda or point of view. Gordimer's unabashed prose will break your soul with its brilliant clarity and eloquence.

I've been reading Jane Aiken Hodge when I can find her for 30 years. I've never been disappointed yet! Now that we have amazon.com I'm lucky enough to be able to find books I couldn't find before, and I'm glad this was one of them. It was totally engrossing, exciting, fast-paced, and had a wonderful ending. Her books take you to the places, and get you involved with the people, and I was very disappointed when this one ended! Kudos to Jane Aiken Hodge!

Maulever Hall must be the first "gothic" ... "regency" I ever read and I was in junior high school at the time. A very early effort by this author who has had a long and prolific career. I remember it fondly as a precursor, for me at any rate, to my foray into Georgette Heyer and, as such, it has always remained a standard by which to judge much regency and historical fiction.

Briefly, it is the story of young Marianne, victim of amnesia who arrives at Maulever Hall with a small boy in tow not knowing who she is or where she was bound or, indeed, who the small boy is. The owner of the Hall, Mr Mark Mauleverer, is a forbidding (never sinister - indeed, he's too sexy to be that and at 13 or 14 when I first read this, I was MOST impressed!!) character, a politician and former soldier, a battle-scarred veteran of Waterloo. There is a mystery, of course, which gets solved but also allows the H/H to be developed, fleshed out and fall in love. There are peripheral characters comically drawn including the hero's mother and a duchess who gardens in gum-boots.

Worth seeking out if only to see how few authors writing in this genre today have managed to achieve Jane Aiken Hodge's early standards! I simply cannot believe my copy is a 1967 edition!!!

I own a signed first edition of this fine tale. I found it as I cleaned out old books from my great aunt's house before it was sold. This exciting story really gives a great picture of life in the Carolina colony in the early days of European settlement. It has a great storyline,well told, a strong love interest, brave deeds of daring, serious villainy and natural disaster in an historically accurate framework. This was not the Crown Colony of Virginia, but it was a land of opportunity for people trying to build a future and leave behind a past. If you are at all interested in pre-Revolutionary coastal North Carolina, this is a "must read". It is worth looking for!

I own a signed first edition of this fine tale. I found it as I cleaned out old books from my great aunt's house before it was sold. This exciting story really gives a great picture of life in the Carolina colony in the early days of European settlement. It has a great storyline,well told, a strong love interest, brave deeds of daring, serious villainy and natural disaster in an historically accurate framework. This was not the Crown Colony of Virginia, it was instead a land of opportunity for people trying to build a future and leave behind a past. If you are at all interested in pre-Revolutionary coastal North Carolina, this is a must read. It is worth looking for!

The third novel about the bunch of excentric characters living in the fictional, but oh-so-real, Tula Springs, Louisiana.
Funny and sad. And very intelligent. Wonderfully written.
"Mr. Wilcox has real comic genius. He is a writer to make us all feel hopeful" said Anne Tyler.

Imagine yourself at a particles accelerator at CERN.

First, assemble the ingredients. Mrs. Olive Mackie, her husband Duane and her teenage son Felix. Uncle L. D., age 91, who depends on various females of this story to keep him going. Dr Martin Bates, student of dentistry, so helpful and charming... Assorted women of the neighborhood, who all went to school together. And, of course, Miss Undine, the retired schoolteacher of them all.

Now, mix them all together and accelerate. Gossip and rumors start spinning, congealing into delicious back biting. Wait for it to stop spinning, to see whose life and reputation is still in one piece.

A delightful book, full of humor and sharply etched pictures of life in a small southern town.

News from Thrush Green is, as are all of Miss Read's books, perfect. It provides relaxed, clean reading, humor and wonderful people. One can't ask for more.

All of Miss Read's books are enchanting and this one is no exception. I only wish that her Thrush Green books and Fairacre books would be republished as sets so I could read them all again and this time in chronological order.

One of the first collections of short stories that Sturgeon published was called "Without Sorcery." This is a wonderful collection of short stories that include some of my favorites.

Beautiful, with a classic horror story (It) and several hard SF stories that contain a nice touch of humor (Ether Breather, Butyl and the Breather) Can't go wrong with Sturgeon!

I read this book at a fairly tender age at the instigation of my grandfather, a Peck himself, and was charmed not only with the elegant Victorian prose, but also with the absolutely hideous pranks the Bad Boy plays on his poor parents. Thoughts of child (and parent) abuse never entered my mind; all I wanted was to be able to strap my baby sister to a goat and let the pair roam free through the garden. I read it again and again, and demolished my copy; now I have another one. Wonderful book, but don't let your impressionable kids read it, unless you plan to spend your spare time keeping an eye on them, because it WILL give them ideas.

I read this at age 12 and I laughed all the way through it. My copy was printed about the turn of the century but the outlandish practical jokes this boy plays on his parents and the local merchants are timeless. However, through it all the boy is endowed with a good heart. He is generally kind to smaller children, girls, and those less fortunate than himself. But for adults that are not up to his moral standards, and they are very loose at times, he shows no mercy. He picks on everyone, his parents, the clergy, shopkeepers, and anyone and anything, that in his opinion deserves it. The story about the loud mouthed parrot that only knows insulting phrases and speaks his mind during a prayor meeting in the boys house is priceless.

My book is called Pitchers Duel by Coach Clair Bee. This book is about an high school all star player who learns that there are bullies who can bring people down. There were bullies that didn't like the coach and wanted to suspend Chip to make their team lose state. The bullies poured things on the coach who is Rockwell and Chip wanted to save him, so he got into a fight and got suspended. Then once the suspension was over, the bullies had to think of another plan to set on Chip. So they forged Chip's contract that he got to prevent him to play in the playoffs. Chip went to the police to prove that he didn't sign it. Finally, he came back in the championship game to play the 10th inning through the 19th. They lost that game and then Rockwell retired.
There are a lot of reasons why someone else should read this book. One reason is that this story teaches you how to prevent bullies. Another reason why someone else should read this book is that there are a lot of different series about Chip Hilton. The last reason why someone else should read this book is that you can learn about all different sports like baseball football and basketball. Some people that might want to read this book are people who like baseball. Other people are maybe people who love reading sports books. Finally, people who would want to read this book are " all about sports ". This was one of my favorite books i have ever read.

This Chip Hilton book was so good to read that I didn't want to finish the last page. I'm glad there are lots of other titles to read by Coach Bee.

I love this novel; everything about it! The style in which it was written, the attention to detail (without droning on and on with tedius superfluous descriptions), the story, the characters, etc. The main character, John, is easy to identify with. He seems like a realistic character to me (despite being a century year old vampire lol). I felt i could relate to his situations, both when he was a weak awkward human and when he was a powerful struggeling revenant; this goes to show how well Farrington succeeds in taking us into the character's mind. I loved this the most about how he writes! He goes into so much depth concerning the protagonist's state of mind and inward struggle that it made me care for the character. I also thought the character development was done extremely well! The transition in John was so believable and yet so extreme.
This novel isn't really a horror novel in the classic sense. The main character is not pure evil manifested. He is instead like all of us; struggling at times to perceive right from wrong. But that is what i love so much about the novel. You get the sense that you're struggling along with the character to make sense of everything.
This novel does contain a lot of gore though so it's pretty scary as well. I totally recommend it to any horror fans or any fiction fan in general.

Book is written after the style of LeFanu. You will think this
author was born in the 1800's as he attempts and achieves this style of classic horror writing. Vampire books ordinarily are not high on my list of horror reads but this one has changed that!

A Simpler Time is one of the best books I have read about a youngster's experiences growing up during the distant past. Author Youngquist does a great job of creating his world for the reader. His writing is clear and concise, and he helps me live his experiences along with him. I'm anxious to read what he has written about his life in the Foreign Service!

I read this book (advertised as excellent for young boys) as a young girl of probably 12 to 13, around 1948 or 1950. This series as well as the Civil War series by the same author were invitingly dusty volumes with old-fashioned type that spoke to me somehow of forgotten knowledge and great adventure. The protagonist, Henry Ware, was a character that could be described as a young Indiana Jones, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone. The books described the great and vanished Indian tribes of the old Northwest Territory, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan. I have held these stories of brave young men, frontier settlers,and indigenous Indian tribes in my mind for nearly 50 years and hold them in great respect and esteem.