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vil elske Registrer deg på LibraryThing for å se om du vil like denne boka. A wonderful coming of age story which takes place on a fishing schooner off the Grand Banks. Harvey matures from a spoiled, indolent rich boy to a hardworking young man. Great story! ( )I dessa dagar, då torsken tycks sjunga på sin svanesång, så kanske det kan vara intressant att läsa om forna tiders torskfiske… nä, vem försöker jag lura? Havets hjältar läser man inte för att den äger rum på just en torskfiskare, även om fiskandet och fiskarens besättning spelar stor roll. I korthet är ramberättelsen denna: den bortskämde Harvey Cheyne trillar av en atlantångare, plockas upp av en fiskebåt, tvingas arbeta, och mognar till man på ett par månader. Kanske inte helt olikt en dålig Hollywoodkomedi, men detta är inte en komedi annat än i den klassiska betydelsen. Istället är det en berättelse om havet, och de människor som befolkade det vid tiden då mycket av havstrafiken fortfarande drevs av vindkraft, och fiske bedrevs med krok och lina; om fiskarnas liv och leverne, hur de sliter för att bärga sin fångst, hur de roar sig(och oroar sig) när vädret gör det omöjligt att arbeta, om deras vidskepelse och moral. Att låta det formeras runt Harvey Cheyne är bara ett sätt att centrera berättelsen runt någon lika okunnig som läsaren – eller till och med någon än okunnigare än en läsare som varit van vid att arbeta för brödfödan. Det är en ganska trevlig roman som inte kräver alltför mycket analys, på det hela taget; kanske inte ett av världslitteraturens storverk men ändå trevlig läsning om livet på en fiskebåt. 2586 "Captains Courageous" A Story of the Grand Banks, by Rudyard Kipling (read 28 Feb 1994) I thought I should read this famous book. I disliked the fact it is full of conversation and hardly a word is spelled right because he is trying to convey pronunciation. A silly, inane way. The story tells of a spoiled rich kid swept off an ocean liner who is picked up by a fisherman off the Grand Banks ,and the kid quickly becomes a great hand on the "We're Here" out of Gloucester. It seems so dated in plot, and while the introduction compares it to Treasure Island, I liked Treasure Island much more. I have never liked Kipling much, since he seems so dated. And I despise the misspelling of English words to make things hard to read. I'm sure if I had read this in high school I'd have felt the same way as to the misspellings although the Rover Boyish plot might have seemed more appealing to me then than it does now. Harvey Cheyne, the 15-year-old son of a railroad tycoon falls overboard from a schooner across the Atlantic. He's saved from drowning by the crew of the cod-fishing ship, the 'We're Here'. But Disko Troop, the captain, thinks he must be a bit loony from shock when he begins talking about his family's wealth. Instead of turning back to deliver the lost scion, Troop puts him to work alongside his own teenaged son Dan, teaching him to fish and earn his keep. An interesting short coming-of-age story meets a journalistic fascination with life aboard a fishing boat off the coast of New England, but I can think of two things wrong with the title... Not bad at all, but certainly not the adventure story that the title and my previous Kipling reading would suggest. I found Captains Courageous to be a bit on the dull side, compared with the rest of the classic type stuff I was reading as a kid. A fairly mundane type story, really, if you can call lost at sea mundane. Kid gets lost, ends up on a ship full of grumpy sailors, has to work hard so he gets fed, etc., etc. You'd have to like that sort of thing. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2186 ingen anmeldelser | legg inn en anmeldelse
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553211900, Paperback)The only one of Kipling's novels to be cast in an American setting, Captains Courageous endures as one of literature's most cherished and memorable sea adventures. Harvey Cheyne, spoiled millionaire's son, tumbles overboard from a luxury liner--only to be rescued by the crew of a Gloucester schooner. Thus begins the boy's second voyage into the rugged rites and ways of sailors. Like all Kipling's masterworks, Captains Courageous is an interweaving of art and moral purpose. Angus Wilson has said that it shows "delicacy of craft and violence of feeling, exactitude and wile impressionism, subtlety and true innocence." A popular favorite since its first publication in 1897, the novel remains a classic story of youthful initiation--and a lively tribute to the author's famous code of bravery, loyalty, and honor among men.(hentet fra Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:24 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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