On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:25:29 -0500, DSK wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

... I was
hugely disappointed in "John Paul Jones" by Evan Thomas. Some folks I
know were raving about how Thomas described the great sea battle and
it was the sorriest description I've ever read about the "Bon Homme
Richard".

Have you read the one by Samuel Eliot Morrison? Not edge-of-your-seat
writing, but it's thorough, and written by somebody who not only knows ships
& the sea but can explain things pretty well.

I'll look it up - thanks for the tip.

Of course my reading has been colored by years of Forrester, Kent,
etc. :)

Dudley Pope?

"The Yorke" series? I thought the timeline was long and I couldn't
quite get into the series like I did the others, but it was good.
It's been years since I've read them - time for a quick reread me
thinks. I have not read the "Ramage" series - don't know why.

Kenneth Roberts?

"Northwest Passage" only unfortunately.

I do read a lot, but sometimes, things get away from me you know? :)

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
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"The wildness and adventure that are in
fishing still recommend it to me."

Henry David Thoreau
"Walden" (1854)