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Atlantic Fury

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How can I express in words what I feel about this book. This is where it all began for me. I was just a rebellious teenager that hated reading when the paperback version of this book was first released. You see, I had this one old aunt that was sure that I'd like reading if I just tried it! She bought me a copy of this book and to be quite honest the only reason I started reading it was that the cover art was eye-catching. Within the hour I was irrevocably hooked for life. Somehow the way Mr. Innes transported me at his will to such a forbidding location and dangled me on a thread while I waited for the book to climax changed my way of thinking. Prior to reading this book movies were my mainstay. Plays were ok so long as they provided some precious time out of school. Books - Nah. But that changed at Mr. Innes' hand. This all happened somewhere in the 1970's. I've been an avid reader ever since that day with no way of knowing how many books I've read since then. Does it really matter how many we read or isn't it just more important (and comforting) to know that there are always more books on the horizon than there are behind us? If you're a book lover, you'll understand.

A note on my rating: I gave the book only 4 stars. To be quite honest I wanted to give it a strong 4.5 but there is no such rating available. The only reason I strayed from that elusive 5-star rating is that just last year I listened to this book on audiocassette and it was a little less exciting than I remembered. Perhaps I wanted too much from the book the second time around, who knows? But, and hear me clearly on this please, this book is a winner for sure. The action is great. The characters are believable. The plot is well thought out for such a small book (now I read mostly 1000+ page novels so this book suddenly seems a tad small in my eyes).

Oh, go enjoy it. I for one am sure you won't be disappointed. And, if you like this work, try "The Land God Gave to Cain", "The Doomed Oasis", "The Wreck of the Mary Deare", and anything else Mr. Innes penned (but those in particular are the cream of the crop to be sure).

Aunt Margaret, in spite of all those tough years when we didn't see eye to eye as often as we both would have liked, for this one thing above all the many blessings you've betowed, I owe you big time.