Friday Pointless Poll

[jeriendhal]

[Poll #1250117]

And on a completely random note, I'm vastly amused that dduane surfs Fandom Wank.

Comments

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

But the old Cussler, that was written by Cussler.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Hey, he's too busy playing with his own little NUMA and suing the producers of Sahara to actually write.

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

The most recent naval battles I've read have been in Weber's Off Armageddon Reef series, which feature actually sailing ships battling in actual water (albeit on a another planet) rather than the metaphorical sea battles in the Harrington series.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

That sounds positively enjoyable. As opposed to the HH books which tend to stretch the metaphor a bit too far.

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

The second book in the series just came out, and the Laurel Library has both of them.

[lennan.livejournal.com]

I am vastly amused by that too, now that you've pointed that out. XD

In A Perfect World...

[skivee.livejournal.com]

...Cussler would die a horrible death.
Dirk Pitt in "Raise The Titanic"
Dirk Pitt in "Raise The Titanic II"
Dirk Pitt in "Planet Of The Titanic"
Dirk Pitt in "Beneath The Planet Of The Titanic"

SUCK!!!!!!!!!

Re: In A Perfect World...

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Hey, Cussler was freaking Hemingway in comparison to the film version of Raise the Titantic. :)

Though I always thought his best books were Vixen 03 and the one about the sunken train.

Re: In A Perfect World...

[skivee.livejournal.com]

Well, you are allowed to think what you will of him, even if his work does SUCK!!!
When you think of all the trees that have been cut down to print his crappy Dirk Pitt stories, then the mystery of Global Warming starts coming into perspective.
To make things easier on the planet I have prepared a Cussler Book plot line. Change details per your taste:

In a mysterious old world place there is an explosion and guys get killed and a thing falls into at least 100 feet of icy water. Then it gets really quiet and everybody who knew about the thing dies ;leaving a few enigmatic clues.
50 years later, Dirk Pitt is minding his own business salvaging things.
The government calls Dirk Pitt to ask for help getting the thing out of the water (cause they don't have anybody who knows how to swim handy).
Dirk Pitt's old girlfriend, who he still has the hots for because they did a lot of noisy sex which he nostagically recalls in profuse detail, is mysteriously killed, so it's personal now.
Dirk Pitt goes to the place to get the thing, then he discovers that the government has inconveniently forgotten to tell him one little thing, like the object is covered in crystallized Ebola virus or plutonium or is really dangerous for some other reason, and the Russian mob is watching for Dirk Pitt to try to get the thing anyway.
Dirk Pitt nearly dies underwater because of...something.
Dirk Pitt defeats the Russian mob, and the rogue US government agents who were secretly working with the Russian Mob, and finds out that it was his ex-girlfriend's younger sister that he loved all along. They have noisy sex and make a lot of money. The End

Re: In A Perfect World...

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Frighteningly accurate actually...