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Summary: WARNING! Do not buy this book!
Review: This book is by far the stupidest, most boring and hard to understand books in the history of all books. It was like torture having to read this pointless book. The characters do not make any sense when talking! See if you can figure this out: "Lay a-holt o' that tackle, then. Behind ye!" And does anyone know what "Pshaw!" means? This is a boring book and I would never hope that a poor soul has to ever read this book again in the history of mankind!
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Summary: Wooden and moralistic, not at all typical of Kipling.
Review: This book is loaded with convincing and picturesque details of life at sea in a small fishing boat, and details particular to the time. But these are the book's best points.Characters are 2-dimensional and relatively unconvincing, the prose is loaded with jargon (interesting and picturesque jargon, but still jargon), and the story line, though believable, is uninspired. The basic tale is this: a spoiled rich brat falls off a luxury liner, and is saved from death in the depths by a small fishing boat. On the boat, for the first time in his life the brat must follow orders, and do some real work. It's a good basis for a story, but done unrealistically. (If you want to see the same basic idea done well, read "Sand", by Will James) The supposedly incorrigible brat converts overnight, and begins doing his best to learn the ropes. The conflict is over instantly, and all that is left to the book is the details of day-to-day on the fishing boat, with an occasional adventure. It's not terrible; it is believable in most ways, loaded with interesting detail, and has a satisfying ending. But it has little or none of Kipling's more typical tales' whimsy and grace of language.
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Summary: Boring
Review: This book is very boring. The characters (except for Harvey) speak very poorly which makes them very hard to understand. There are a lot of ain'ts which drives me crazy. This book seems to jump from one thing to the next. They might be talking about cod and the next minute they talk about cattle. It is one of those classics which was appealing back then but not now. Captain's Courageous is about a spoiled boy who transforms into a good person with the help of some fishermen...This book has made my top three dullest books I have ever read.
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Summary: Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Review: This book shows how life's fortunes can turn quickly from
comfort and predictability to hardship and adversity.
In the instant case, a young man's fortune made that
precipitous turn which tested his character in adversity.
The book teaches important lessons for people of all ages
but especially children. There are many seamans' terms
and the colloquialisms are difficult to discern at times.
The overall thrust of the work is good because it portrays
life at sea which very few of us ever encounter to any
significant extent. As such, this experience enriches us all.
Finally, the work raises some important questions about what we
should teach our children. Should children learn that life
consists only of pure pleasure? I think that a balanced
presentation would provide a series of experiences depicting
both hardship and the triumph of the human spirit over
adversity and unfortunate happenstances.
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Summary: sucked
Review: This book was so stupid. I hated it. I could not get into the book and when I finished I was dumbfounded. I could not believe that I spent so much time reading such a worthless book. What a waste of time and money.
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Summary: Captains Boring
Review: This is one Kipling opus that didn't age well at all. It depends far too much on an assumed interest by its readership in seafaring and the culture of the fishermen of old New England. Page after page after page. Then after that there's a lot of gee-whiz-ain't-he-rich stuff that gets old fast. And all the while these two teenage boys are having this great time working their butts off in the sheer drudgery of manual labor. With all that, it's very hard not to fall into an abject slumber and then to wake up fervently wishing this particular read was all over. Hey, you want a good book about a guy who gets picked up at sea and gets forced to work for his keep? "The Sea Wolf," of course! It's a 10!
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Summary: Captain
Review: this is the worst book I have ever read. I just cant get into it I sometimes felt like throwing against the wall.
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Summary: Literary Analysis of Captains Courageous
Review: This story is by Rudyard Kipling, it is called Captains Courageous.In this book it shows the importance of working & surviving in the real world.
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Summary: Terrific social history
Review: While the plot may be a bit outdated (we don't go in so much for moral improvement stories these days), the real star of Captains Courageous for me was the documentation of life aboard a cod trawler at the end of the last century. All-night gutting and salting sessions, life among the fleet, the risks and lifestyle -- all fascinating. I read it in conjunction with Cod: Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, and the two together were a terrific education in how exactly fish gets onto our plates, and the risks that people take to get it there.
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Summary: Wonderfully brought to life
Review: With such a classic novel like this, its important that the image you get from a casseste is the same you get in your head from reading it. The cast of this cassete does an extraordinary job of bringing the crew of the 'We're Here' to life. The voices are great and the sounds and stories of daily ship life make you feel like you're there pulling up fish with Dan and Harvey! Great listening!!
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