Wilbur Smith anyone?
Wed, 2001-10-03 16:41
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Wilbur Smith anyone?
Hello all....
I was just wondering if there were any other Wilbur fans out there If not...WHY NOT??
When my dad kept harping on about how good his books were, I thought yeah, yeah....an aging author will have little to offer me
What a foolish prat I was!
They are soooo cool......who would have thought that I would enjoy piracy on the high seas?
Smith's researching of his stories must be so extensive.
All I can say is go buy River God.......NOW!
Laters....
Linsi ;o)
fish
was fond of old wilbur when i was a teenager ...my mother was a fan and i read all the ones i could get my hands on ... i remember shocking my english teacher by writing an essay on Eagle in the Sky ... i didn't know i should have been doing it on Charlotte's Web or Moonfleet ...
not read him since tho ...
Martin T
likewise Fish, as a teenager, I avidly read them, along with Robert Ludlum, who was his hi-tech spy alternative. It's been years now since I've looked at Wilbur.....I remember them being mostly about safari passion and treachery....
stormy
river god is very good.
if you like well researched historical detective/thrillers then try steven saylor.
he brings rome to life convincingly.
I hadn't realised they were in order though. so start with roman blood. I read 'arms of nemises' first and by comparison roman blood, his first ever novel, is weaker.
ABC auto spellc...
nemesis
Liana
I read Eagle in the Sky as a child too, Fish.
Every book I tried of his after that, seemed to me as if they were written by someone else? I've tried several more, but they don't really grab me....
Linsi
Ta Stormy.....will try and get hold of that one :o)
Liana....I have not read Eagle in the sky....
I read River God whick I thought amazing, then Pirds Of Prey and now Monsoon(which is good, but I am struggling a bit towards the end of the book...maybe I need a change!
fish
liana ... do you still have mental images of that scarred pilot and the beautiful blind woman?
Linsi
Christ! sorry about my earlier spelling mistakes....ooops
(hangs head in shame)
stormy
linsi, i have to ask..... is there any reason in particular why you have a separate abc set for each story?
Linsi
erm...dunno...everytime I add another story or poem, I am offered a new set!!
Curse my feeble girl brain....I will try and sort it out Stormy...I have not been around these parts long.....
My sets are rather a mess I agree :o(
Linsi
Oh great!!! I just tried to move one of stories into another abc set and it has activated the language barrier(?)
Is my story lost forever?....it had a nice big cheery on it too.... Help...I want my cherry back....!
stormy
email abc with a copy of your cherry notification email and you will get it back