A Grue of Ice By Geoffrey Jenkins
Grue epsilon occasion BUT it was riproaringly entertaining and what it lacked in creative depth and literary pretentiousness it certainly made up for in tidal excitement Surprisingly enjoyable and I found I struggled to put it down 9780006162605 A Grue of Ice is an adventure thriller set in the wild waters of the Antarctic and Southern Atlantic The protagonist is an ex British naval captain and his sidekick is a native of Tristan Da Cunha who served under him during WWII The novel includes a villainous whaling magnate several remote island many ocean gales and a number of enjoyable action scenes In typical 1960s fashion the plot revolves around a substance vital to the construction of rockets This is an enjoyable thriller well worth a read if you enjoy simple well written adventure yarns 9780006162605 c1962 Published under the title of The Disappearing Island in the USA I can only think that perhaps the word grue may have been deemed to have been off putting for the Americans I understand that grue is actually used in Scotland and has its roots in the various languages used by the Vikings Meaning to tremble or shudder I assumed my captain s voice Leading Torpedoman Sailhardy I couldn t help myself I grinned at him again His eyes were as far away as the horizon Relax I said You look as if you were trying to see all the way to the South Pole 9780006162605 A rollicking good tale of the sea with plenty of lavish description and constant action 9780006162605 A Grue of IceThis book is terribly written clumsily structured and absurdly plotted But it never pretends to be anything other than that so you can hardly blame the author editor if there was one publisher cover illustrator or reader for the final result It s an early 1960s ripping yarn except the yarn is low grade synthetic stuff not fine merino or anything The dialog is stilted pedantic and expository The characters are inscrutable cartoonish and one dimensional anything less would be pointless The action iswell it s what you d expect shipwrecks explosions gunfire the whole lot And don t get me started on what passes for love interest is there such a thing as love disinterest But for the few hours it takes to read books like this it s not a terrible investment Just don t dive in thinking you ve stumbled on something that will challenge your intellect or educate your mind sit back enjoy the ride and think about who would play which characters in your Hollywood version of the book And when you ve finished the book come back here and write a review that explains what became of the albatross and the seal pup since they kind of just vanish in the final pages If you want something similarly non sensical to enjoy in terms of plausibility check out ASSAULT ON A QUEEN by Jack Finney from right around the same era Preview A ragtag group of misfits gets together and raises a sunken German U boat so they can use it to rob the passengers of the RMS QUEEN MARY on the open seas Hilarity ensues 9780006162605 I read it because I am fascinated by remote places and I wanted to learn about Bouvet Island and the area around it In that sense the book was fairly interesting But the plot was quite cheap and the characters didn t have enough depth Especially the villains were very one sided Also the love story was quite out of the blue and felt pointless All in all it was ok but not a memorable book 9780006162605 Read in Norwegian as Drama i S rishavet 3 1 2 stars 9780006162605 It s a pretty cool adventure novel in a unique place I knew next to nothing about the book s locale and enjoyed reading about places and species I had only heard of few times before. A bucket of ice The love story part of this book is probably its worst aspect and it s repetitive in some of its sentences but it s a quick and easy read of adventure exploration and drama 9780006162605 A 1962 adventure with the plusses but also the shortcomings that mark this genre in that decade where it s often the exotic or climatically harsh settings that makes for readability In this case it s the Antarctic Ocean near Bouvet Island 1500 miles south of Cape Town The plot features a granite jawed hero a woman with whom he falls instantly in love and her father a rich but mad capitalist seeking a rare mineral on a mysterious perhaps mythical island Sea and polar lore add interest to a standard but quite involving story 9780006162605
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Naval Antarctic adventure story Formulaic in style bad guys searching for something good guys get implicated in bad guys shenanigans