The chain of events for my relationship with this book look something like this: Cute little hardcover that looks amusing shows up in book sale. Crazy Book Lady gladly forks out $1, for some reason thinking that her husband would probably like it too. Book makes it home and is handed to husban...
These books are a pretty quick read. Being a little over 100 pages long I was able to finish up the sequel just as fast as the first. This book does have some different titles, one being The Pirates! In an Adventure with Whaling. Ahab was the version I had read so that is how I am reviewing the b...
Bruised from a crushing disappointment at the Pirate of the Year Awards, the Pirate Captain decides that perhaps it's time for a career change. Before long, his loyal crew, much to their dismay, find themselves en route to St Helena - and facing the recently deposed Napoleon Bonaparte. This is th...
he pirates walked briskly back and forth across the living room, which now, according to the banner hung across the wall, wasn’t called the living room, it was called the ‘Election Campaign Headquarters’. The walking briskly back and forth didn’t achieve much but the Pirate Captain liked how it m...
‘In you, and you alone, we truly met our match. But now that my hive-mind legion of Thargoid drones has finally bested you in battle, we cannot let you return to your people, so we are keeping you here in this luxurious zoo enclosure, which has all the mod-cons.’ ‘Damn you to hell, you insect mon...
Chesington! In piratical circles this sort of thing was social death. For a moment the Pirate Captain thought about trying to pretend that he and the crew were some sort of pirate-a-gram, sent by one of Ahab’s whaler mates. But whalers were a notoriously humourless lot, and it didn’t seem likely ...
So far as anybody could tell, they still weren’t on an adventure, and the Captain was worried that if a grisly murder or a woman with flashing eyes didn’t turn up soon then the Romantics might start to have second thoughts about the entire business. After a little while he stopped pacing, picked ...