"sm70- why not Duesenberg?" (sm70-whynotduesenberg)
07/27/2018 at 09:18 • Filed to: None
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"sm70- why not Duesenberg?" (sm70-whynotduesenberg)
07/27/2018 at 09:18 • Filed to: None | 1
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As a car person, I can’t believe I haven’t read any of Clive Cussler’s books before. He’s apparently the Jay Leno of authors, with a huge classic car collection of his own, and it shows. This is the first of his novels I’ve read, and it has our heros at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance hunting down a long-lost Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost prototype.
Khalbali
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
07/27/2018 at 10:07 |
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I’ ve only read t he Dirk Pitt stories but always really liked them, my dad was a big fan growing up.
FLmanisback
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
07/27/2018 at 10:41 |
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The story goes that Clive Cussler bought his first vintage car with the proceeds from one of his first novels. Then he started a tradition of buying a new car with ea ch novel. That may not be the complete story, but that’s how I heard it. On the back of his novels here’s usually a picture of him with the car that the novel features: ‘Clive Cussler with Dirk Pitt’s 1929 Model J Duesenberg’. He prominently features cars and collecting in most of his modern novels.
Cussler himself is a bit of an adventurer. He hunts shipwrecks when he’s not writing.
Nom De Plume
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
07/27/2018 at 10:47 |
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Worst book he has ever put his name on. The books with his son Dirk, go figure, and all of the other projects he took a co-writer on for are decent enough. Even those biographical in nature with non-professional writers taking part. I’ll stop at saying someone erroneously thought he should try reaching new audiences and loosen his own hand on the proceedings. It’s crap.
Do yourself a favor and start one of his series at the beginning. Modern day swashbuckling stuff that never quite goes out of something you could read to an impressionable mind. Nothing he writes is worthy of literary critique or is hard to pick back up months later without missing a beat.
FLmanisback
> Nom De Plume
07/27/2018 at 18:18 |
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He’s 87. Suck it
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Nom De Plume
> FLmanisback
07/27/2018 at 18:43 |
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His age and success was put in its rightful place. Others taking advantage of both must be the part you missed.
Oh right, trading insults in the comments.
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FLmanisback
> Nom De Plume
07/28/2018 at 10:20 |
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My point is, give the guy a break, he’s 87. I’m in my 50s and I am an incontinent drooler myself. Writing bad books is better than what I’ve accomplished. So, comment retracted, I’m no highbrow if I’m reading Clive Cussler never for fun. Hope you LIGMA