Pirate Freedom
by Gene Wolfe
historical... action ?
copyright 2007
read in December 2014
rated 3/10: so bad it's embarrassing
This book is rubbish. Avoid it.
The cover claims that it is "science fiction". No, it's not. It's a long and boring series of anecdotes about pirates.
Here's the formula:
Read a book such as, The Boys Big Book of Exciting Pirate Adventures. Take every incident -- real and rumoured -- and write it all down. Write it all down as though every single incident had happened to the one character.
Make sure that your writing style is boring, rambling and with plenty of statements such as, I'll tell you about this later. Oh, and add lots of details about ships, to prove that you read a few Wikipedia entries on sailing ships.
Then realise that no-one will read a boring book about pirates. Not even if they enjoyed Pirates of the Caribbean. Readers expect characters, plot, action and suspense.
Is this book a very clever attempt to write in the style of a very boring person telling his first person account of a series of very boring anecdotes ? Well, success ! This book is as boring as its narrator.
Not to worry ! You're well known as a writer of science fiction. So you add a paragraph at the start and a paragraph at the end, to make your boring pirate into a boring time traveler. And claim that this book is science fiction.
What a load of absolute drivel.
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