Hungry As the Sea: Amazon.ca: Wilbur A. Smith: Books

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"One of the world's most popular and prolific adventure writers."--"The Washington Post"
"Smith joins the ranks as one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."--"Tulsa World"
"A captivating storyteller."--"Orlando Sentinel"
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Robbed of his wife and ousted from his huge shipping empire, Nick Berg is hell-bent on vengeance. It is the sea which gives him his opportunity. When his arch-rival's luxury liner is trapped in the tempestuous Antarctic, Nick stakes all to pit his powerful salvage tug, the Warlock, in a desperate race against time and the elements. Previously published.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Ocean adventure and a bit of romance, Feb 20 2004

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Q-boy (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hungry As The Sea (Paperback)

This book shows you the very fine line between love and hate. How a person can say they love you and down the road could'nt care less about you.
And that you can't trust ANYBODY. The main character Nick Berg, lost his life's work because of his cold blooded belle wife. This shows you how a man can pull himself out of the gutter with shear determination and a cool intuitve mind. The book has ocean adventure and a bit of romance. Good read.

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4.0 out of 5 stars my review, April 18 2001

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Ana Maria Barrenechea - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hungry As The Sea (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is the story of a man who wins back his fortune and life from very difficult circumstances. He faces incredible storms and temperatures to salvage a boat with passengers off the coast of Antartica. He next saves an oil tanker who is also carrying his ex-wife and son.

As usual, Wilbur Smith writes in excesive detail, but makes every scene, every place and situation seems very real. The characters are also very life-like and you warm up to them imediately.

If there was anything I could say against this book, it would be that the author seems to spend too much time describing every scene during the storms and salvages, when it is hard to follow because it gets very technical. Also, the ending is a little disappointing because after he has warmed you up to his ex-wife and son you are left not knowing what happens to them.

However, it is overall a very good book and always a pleasure to read a book that is entertaining, alive and written in such a complete way.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Beginning and ending action sandwiched around boring middle, Feb 21 2001

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Gary Knoke (Sterling, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hungry As The Sea (Mass Market Paperback)

Smith accomplishes a near-impossible feat. One of his characters is a Persian/Iranian woman, and he fails to convey her beauty, allure, and mystery to the reader. Since (IMHO) these women *are* incredibly beautiful, alluring, and mysterious, Smith's failure is especially egregious. His other heroine is a near caricature American woman: bold, aggressive, interested in causes. Conclusion: Smith can't write about romance, love, and intimacy.

In addition, his book should have been reviewed by an American before publication. Americans do *not* eat "shrimps" any more than they eat "trouts" or "turkeys". In that context, these are nouns of mass, not nouns of number. Also, there is no United States Coast Guard Service. It's just the U.S. Coast Guard.

Finally, Smith starts with a thrilling tugboat-liner rescue, then bores the reader to insensibility with interpersonal relationships among the main characters, and then ends with the extremely unsurprising rescue of another ship (kind of) by our hero in his tugboat. When I can summarize a book in one sentence, it's always bad news. "Tugboats save some ships, some lives, and Planet Earth."

Finally, compare Smith's action/inaction pattern with someone like Dean Koontz, who almost always grabs the reader on the first page, keeps up the suspense and thrills, adds a *believable* romantic subplot, and ends with a satisfying and frequently happy conclusion. Smith could learn a lot from Mr. Koontz.

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2.0 out of 5 stars What happened to the ending??
The first part of this book is mesmorizing, I couldn't put it down. However, after the first big adventure, the story rapidly deteriorates. Read more

Published on Jan 2 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars ONE OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF OUR TIME
Hungry As the Sea is one of my very favorites! Wilbur Smith can transpose you into any setting and bring alive the story like no other. Read more

Published on Nov 26 2000 by fantasticforum