Comments on: Review: Flint and Silver

By: dirty Roger

dirty Roger — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:47:18 +0000

In the past three months I have read Pirate Latitudes, On Stranger Tides and Flint and Silver. Liked Flint and Silver the best, by a long shot the best. On Stranger Tides was well done and an excellent read, I’m just not much on magic and voodoo no matter how ya spell it.
Keeping mine eye peeled for Pieces of Eight.
dirty Roger

By: Peggy Stone

Peggy Stone — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:21:29 +0000

I just happened to see this on a shelf at Borders and waited for it to become available at the library, but having read it, I am so reluctant to put it back that I am definitely going to fork over hard cash to own it, and that says something these days. I’m usually wary of prequels, but this one does not disappoint and in fact drove me to a re-reading of “Treasure Island,” where I discovered that even such small details as Silver’s faith in banks (there is a wonderful bit of dialogue to this effect in “Flint and Silver’) and his relative youth in TI (50 might be old for a pirate, but it’s younger than he is usually portrayed) were right on the money. The mystery behind Silver’s failure to be captain, when he is so clearly the superior of everyone around him, makes perfect sense. I could have maybe done with fewer details of pirate perversity (I honestly don’t need the details every time some lowlife gets aroused, as I think we can take it as a given) and once or twice the violence got a little too CSI, but the author’s flair for dialogue and language, the many colorful details of life at sea, and (on the whole) the characterizations make for a book that stands up to repeated readings and deserves to be incorporated as part of the “real story” of Long John Silver. I look forward eagerly to the next installment.

By: Dave Nichols

Dave Nichols — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:42:58 +0000

This is a GREAT book and one that we will spend some time on in Pirates magazine. Drake is a master at revealing every nuance of the world created within Treasure Island. More will come, but rush out and get Flint and Silver TODAY! You’ll be glad you did. Plus, who couldn’t love a book by a man named John Drake (the original “Secret Agent Man”?)

By: Capt. Anne Paisley

Capt. Anne Paisley — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:37:45 +0000

Joy! I was disappointed by “Silver,” so I’m glad to hear this sequel is better quality. I’m running short of decent Pirate fiction…