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Title: Governor Ramage RN : The Lord Ramage Novels No. 4 by Dudley Pope ISBN: 0-935526-79-X Publisher: McBooks Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Reminiscent of Dirk Pitt's best
Comment: The fourth Ramage carries on with the tradition of highly entertaining naval action . The dialogue, descriptions of scenes and actions, and character behavior are first rate. The hurricane scene is what reminds me of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt. I've not read a better account of existence in the middle of a hurricane, rivals the best Pitt action scenes.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fast-paced seafaring
Comment: This 4th volume picks up the events in the eastern Caribbean following Lt. Ramages's FREEBOOTER adventure. You really should read this series in order, if only because at first opportunity some character will recapitulate the previous volume's heroics. In this fast-paced story Ramage endures 1797 convoy duty, suffers from his family's nemesis again (RAMAGE #1), sees a new heartthrob, spots a skulking privateer, is terrorized by a hurricane, hunts treasure, obtains a prize of no interest, is subject to another court martial, and pursues an ugly vendetta. This time out Pope teaches us about convoying, the muster book, hurricane colors and frights, estimating distances at sea, ship weights, and the then value of gold.
Pope writes pretty well, with great pace, plot, and crystal clear action. The structure of the stories is dramatic, moving from small to large troubles with pauses for strained humor. Scenes are dead on, but the overall plot is so improbable you don't want to think on it. His characters are interesting but so predictably one-sided you soon learn to recognize the clues who will turn out good or bad. An authorial tic is interrupting long climactic action sequences with dry disquisitions on naval minutiae that could easily have been put in the slow parts instead. Or perhaps Pope is trying to show the thought processes of a somewhat naive leader who is at his best only in angry action (vide his model, Hornblower). Pope doesn't give away upcoming events in his chapter headings (none), unlike Kent's stories of Bolitho. The language is unoffensive; the blood and guts of battle is simply not strongly felt, and we never learn whether Ramages's new infatuations actually betray his first love. The characters' emotions are restrained, like a contemporary painting by Ingres or David rather than the horror of Goya or Blake. The book design by Paperwork is a fine job. (368 pp only.) Hardback copies of Ramage are way up in value.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very entertaining, except for cheesy romance
Comment: This book is very similar to the first three books in this series: some good action, so-so dialogue and characterization, and a couple of brief (fortunately) romantic scenes that are so bad that it is hard to believe that Pope's editor and friends did not give him the advice to either change these scenes dramatically or ditch them altogether. Maybe they did and he just didn't listen. Anyway, there is some good action in this book, although there is less battle action than in the previous books. There is a truly great scene where Ramage and his crew are fighting to keep their ship afloat during a hurricane. The hurricane scene is one that has been done many times in this genre, but Pope does it very well in this book. Pope spent a lot of time sailing around the Caribbean and he obviously accumulated a lot of knowledge of the area; he does a great job describing the islands. Ramage makes some clever legal and political moves to try and defend himself from the attacks of his enemy, the evil Admiral Goddard. At times this book almost reminded me of an episode of JAG (which isn't really a bad thing). In summary, this is a pretty entertaining read, but I hope that in future installments Pope stops having Ramage fall in love with a new girl in every book only to completely forget about her and fall in love with a new girl in the next book. (I know Ramage is supposed to have a bad memory but give us a break!)
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Title: Ramage & the Drumbeat: The Lord Ramage Novels No. 2 by Dudley Pope ISBN: 0935526773 Publisher: McBooks Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Ramage's Diamond (Lord Ramage Novels, No. 7) by Dudley Pope ISBN: 0935526897 Publisher: McBooks Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Ramage's Mutiny (Lord Ramage Novels, No. 8) by Dudley Pope ISBN: 0935526900 Publisher: McBooks Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Ramage & the Rebels (Lord Ramage Novels, No. 9) by Dudley Pope ISBN: 0935526919 Publisher: McBooks Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Ramage Touch (Lord Ramage Novels, No. 10) by Dudley Pope ISBN: 1590130073 Publisher: McBooks Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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