/lit/ - Literature

I remember reading a book about a German WW1 raider ship called "The Wolf" which was pretty fire.

I've read master and commander, post captain and hms surprise
I really liked post captain, I don't know why people think it's bad
Aubrey constantly being on edge while on land is hilarious
The battle scenes are fucking awesome as well
Apparently The Terror is ship kino as well but I haven't read it yet
I wish there was a Sherlock Holmes story written on a ship

>>22476439
>no publisher name on front page
Welp. Not going to read.

>>22476453
The first four are kinda awks. 5-12 are the best.

>>22476439
>>22476453
Ships.

Das Boot
>boat.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Books about German uboats other than das boot? Fiction or non fiction

>>22476507
uboat.net ought to have a full scholarly bibliography

Horatio Hornblower series is pretty good. Similar to the Jack Aubrey series.

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>>22476529
NOT A BOAT. ITS A SQUARE RIGGED THREE MASTER IT IS A SHIP.

>>22476424
Check out 'Youth' and 'The Secret Sharer' by Joseph Conrad, two great boat-centric short stories.

>>22476533

I believe in book 9 of the series Hornblower and his Lieutenant take a boat down the river Seine to escape hostile France.

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>>22476424

>>22476507
The Cruel Sea. Not exactly about U-Boats but they certainly play a part.

Anyone here read this?

>>22476453
>really liked post captain, I don't know why people think it's bad

Because he’s on land about 90 percent of the book
Very tough read if you suffer from nautism.

>>22476649
I have late onset nautism so it was probably better for me

>>22476530
>Slocum
I have the opposite problem

>>22476453
I'm reading The Terror now, it's not a masterpiece, but it's definitely ship kino.

>>22476665

No one has mentioned this gem yet?

>>22476424

>inb4 not boats

>>22476648
The movie was bretty gud

>>22476549
That's in book 7, "Flying colors".

Kipling's short story "The Disturber of Traffic"

>>22476424
>In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.

Sounds like kino to me tbqh desu

>>22477176
I found South (Shackleton's own telling of the story) to be much better, it conveyed their situation much better. Shackleton does not dwell on his mistakes, he accepts them and moves on, nor does he dwell on success, just as need demanded in the situation and it gives interesting insights into the entire ordeal. There is a general undercurrent of hopelessness in Shackleton's account, the celebration of a minor success, not looking back on failures, the pushing on with the science of it all to keep everyone busy with something so they do not just give up, it all becomes increasingly desperate feeling as the book goes on.

Lansing is too removed from it all and reads more like a critique at times, the mistakes are mostly obvious and we don't need someone to explain them.

>>22476424
Gordon Pym
Nigger of the Narcissus

I read some Conrad boat story collection and was kinda surprised that Heart of Darkness felt kinda weak compared to the others. I think Youth was my favorite of them.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50123/50123-h/50123-h.htm#chXVIII

It is not good but it is kind of fun and has a certain nostalgia for childhood when such works would have been captivating. Doubt I will ever read any of the other in the series but who knows. Found this from a Gass interview, apparently he read them when young. There was some similar adventure series I read when I was young, wish I could remember the name.

>>22477777
Checked.
I found Heart of Darkness underwhelming too, maybe because it's been referenced in other media enough that it didn't have the same impact.

>>22476424
Not lit but the mariner’s revenge song by the decemberists provides a similar ambiance.

Terror

>>22477777
Beautiful digits. The best part of Heart of Darkness is the very beginning where he's musing about how the Romans would have felt sailing up the Thames. Rest of the book is alright.

>>22476424
horatio hornblower. The last book blows but it puts an end on the saga.
Read them free here:
https://www.fadedpage.com/csearch.php?author=Smith,%20Cecil%20Louis%20Troughton

>>22476424
"Mutiny on the Bounty" series
Read them for free here:
https://www.fadedpage.com/csearch.php?author=Hall,%20James%20Norman

>>22478306
I'm terror at night. Terror in the bedroom, terror in the sheets. If you can catch my drift..