One of the few books I’ve actually thrown in the bin because it was that bad. Waste of a tree.
Well, the books are definitely not that bad.
Custler can write a gripping story, but his attempts to tell the stories of various great mysteries from a firsthand participant account is dubious at best, and has to be guesswork. postulating one possible scenario – when clearly, as they are mysteries, there will often be more than one possible set of events. He also fails to mention that it is ‘fiction’ so some readers will assume he got his ‘facts’ from somewhere. Shockingly bad writing.
OK, I forgot that there really ARE people who take every page for real …
However it never entered MY mind, that Cussler actually talked to La Salle, Horace Hunley or Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs.
In the particular case, for Custler, it makes a worthwhile search and ‘story’ to assume it made mainland N America. He therefore bases his data upon some apparent sightings by backwoodsmen. They may be telling the truth, but we don’t know. Given the size of the Atlantic and chances of coming down before the USA, I know where my money is. Chiz.
Agree. However the story is more … trustable (?) … than the story of the movie this thread started with. The meaning of my first post was, that L´Oiseau Blanc just COULD be lying somewhere in a North American bog. However they have just shown where it´s not. Sorry, if I haven´t expressed myself that clearly …
As a followup he ‘solves’ the Marie Celeste mystery. Sheesh. :rolleyes:
As you have written it makes a good story. So what? :rolleyes:
Good novelist. Driven man. Very dubious researcher. Not to be trusted with ‘non-fiction’; I don’t think he knows what it is. 😀
I think you have mistaken the books intention: Telling a story of something lost and the story of the events, searching for them. And earn some money, that can be spent on the next “expedition”. I´m not quite sure, but who paid those divers looking for the “Hunley” all those years?
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