- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Vintage (2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1400077508
- ISBN-13: 978-1400077502
- Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 1.7 x 20.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 295 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,051,605 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.9 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews)
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Just what is it about this book?, Aug 28 2006
By Reader "a_reader_999" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Pirates!: An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab (Paperback)
I keep deciding that the entire premise is just too silly, too overboard, and seriously, can't I find anything else better to do with my time than read this sort of thing?
Then I read yet another line that makes me practically swallow my tongue from laughing, and if a book can do that, what else do you need to know about it?
Mostly I'm just angry, very very angry, jealous, and full of rage and spite and envy and all of those other un-pirate-like feelings, because I didn't come up with this idea first and publish a book, so I can finally go back to my dad and say, "THIS is what I plan on doing with two degrees in English, and by the way, stop sending me those stupid internet chain letters." Even though, coming more than twenty years after the fact (of the degrees, that is, not the chain letters), I would think that he could probably have figured out under his own steam what I did, and did not, plan to do with two degrees in English.
Curse you, Gideon Defoe, with your nonsensical novels and your decades-old internet chain letters! I am perfectly capable of driving your pontoon boat without crashing it into a sandbar! And I am furthermore able to converse in the King's English while doing so! Good day to you!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious Piratical Read!, July 13 2006
By S. E. Koziol "HS science teacher." - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Pirates!: An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab (Paperback)
If you are going to take one book to the beach this summer - this should be the one. Excessively silly - similar to Douglas Adams - akin to Monty Python - Arrrrr, I've got nothing else wonderful to say about it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Johnny Depp meets Monty Python & the comic strip Overboard, May 30 2007
By D. Wade "Inspector NoClue" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Pirates!: An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab (Paperback)
If these guys ever post a Pirate Wanted Notice I'm putting in an application! Enter the day to day business of the Pirate Captain and his top notch ... er ... top ... his crew.
What at first seems like silliness in the end turns out to be ... well ... better silliness. But along the way each pirate will become your friend (a true feat considering few of them have names other than "The Pirate in Green" or "The Pirate with the Strawberry Birthmark"). You will know them well enough to not only laugh at the lines on the page, but (as at face value they're the most polite pirates on the seven seas) it's much more fun to read into what they're NOT saying -- especially as they try to deal with their beloved ... but lost in his own world (or perhaps his own beard) Pirate Captain.
Readers will reference Monty Python and that's pretty much right on. But I couldn't help but think of the comic strip, Overboard, as well. We're just spending a day at the office with these pirates where business as usual often means sunning oneself on the deck in between adventures.
Be ye warned - at the beginning you'll think "what am I doing wasting my time with such simplistic ..." - but hold on, because ye be wrong. These books are intelligent, comic, adult fun hidden in the simple words of simple men. I especially enjoyed the second book, Adventure with Ahab, probably b/c by that point I knew the lads well.
I rarely keep books after I've read them once - especially with fiction - but this one stays on the shelf to be picked up on those dark days when the nasty winds are blowing to and fro and the powers of darkness are again at me door - for the Pirate Captain has got me back!
Of course, I'll probably have to buy him a ham - he loves ham, you know.
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