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    Pirate Latitudes: A Novel
    Pirate Latitudes: A Novel
    Pirate Latitudes: A Novel
    Audiobook9 hours

    Pirate Latitudes: A Novel

    Written by Michael Crichton

    Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    “Crichton’s ultimate adventure.”

    —San Francisco Chronicle

     

    “Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action….A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure.”
    —USA Today

     

    “Riveting….Great entertainment….The pages and minutes fly by.”
    —Cleveland Plain Dealer

     

    #1 New York Times bestselling author, the incomparable Michael Crichton (“One of the great storytellers of our age” —Newsday) takes to the high Caribbean seas for an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates, lost treasure, sword fights, duplicity, and hair-breadth escapes in the New World.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateNov 24, 2009
    ISBN9780061930263
    Pirate Latitudes: A Novel
    Author

    Michael Crichton

    Michael Crichton (1942-2008) was the author of the ground-breaking novels The Great Train Robbery, Jurassic Park, Disclosure, Prey, State of Fear and Next, among many others. Crichton’s books have sold more than 200 million copies worldwide, have been translated into thirty-eight languages, and provided the basis for thirteen feature films. Also known as a filmmaker and creator of ER, he remains the only writer to have a number one book, movie, and TV show in the same year.

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    • 5/5
      Awesome tale! Everything in a story a guy wants to hear, some history, some pirate plunder, a little sexy time, and even a giant squid! It's like Pirates of the Caribbean meets 20k leagues under the sea.
    • 5/5
      The strong women, historical setting, the obvious research and hard work. Basically great story. Put this with his better work
    • 1/5
      if it were possible to give zero stars I would; Mr. Crichton, a wonderful writing superstar and creative genius of the first order, obviously agreed, choosing not to publish this pirate nonsense before he died in 2008; the bad guy kills a good guy by arranging for rats to eat his face; if that doesn't tell you all you need to know, and you choose to read this doorstop anyway, and believe there's "kraken" in the ocean just watching and waiting to .... (enough said).
    • 2/5
      The audiobook cuts skips ahead in the book. End up missing a lot of the book.
    • 1/5
      It was a poor representation of a Crichton novel. Devoid of the usual richness.
    • 5/5
      Everything you could ask for in a swashbuckling tale, told with Crichton's signature ability to tell fantastical stories as though they were straight out of history.
    • 5/5
      great story! a great pirate tale to read at any time.
    • 4/5
      Good story, early Crichton. Too much killing. Needed more backstory.
    • 5/5
      Great book- all I could want from a pirate novel and plenty of historical fact also
    • 1/5
      Why on earth do you task an American, with apparently no English accents to offer, to read a book full of English characters ?
    • 4/5
      I had a hard time putting this down. Action packed. Exactly what you would expect from pirates.
    • 2/5
      Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton

      ★★ ½

      When you think of a swashbuckling adventure with pirate and treasure, do you think of the author Michael Crichton? I sure don’t. After Crichton passed away in 2009, Pirate Latitudes was found on his PC, was deemed “complete” and published. I have always been a huge fan of the author’s work and I could be wrong but I feel that this was a side project that he was having fun with that he never planned for the public to see. Some say he had been playing around with it since the 1970s. This was an ok book but not up to standards for what you would expect of a Crichton book. I had a much easier time if I pulled it away from the association of what you would expect out of this author normally.

      For the most part this just felt like an unfinished book. It was fairly predictable. The normals of what could go wrong did and it all seemed fairly rushed. Details were lacking, especially in the characters. It seemed as if elements were added but not always explain fully. There was potential here but it seems like nothing more than an outline. If you are looking for classic Crichton, you won’t find it here. Disconnect yourself from that idea and it may be worth the read but even then, it’s not the most impressive work of adventure and action out there.
    • 3/5
      This follows the a privateer names Hunter as he goes off on a mission to capture a treasure galleon. The book is all action. The characters are interesting and the story is a little crazy but enjoyable. A good beach read. har har
    • 5/5
      Fabulous tale, gripping, fun and a bit violent. I like Michael Crichton’s work in general but this one of my favorites.
    • 3/5
      It's difficult to tell if Crichton ever intended this to be published, but for better or worse, it's a fun, over-the-top pirate adventure that was really easy to read.
    • 3/5
      THere is a plot and some memorable characters, but too much of the book reads like the manuscript it was and not a finished work. Several major scenes seem to be missing, and major plot points are introduced unexpectedly only to disappear again forever. Worth a read for Pirate fans and Crichton enthusiasts but all in all a poor novel that tarnishes his reputation in print as much as it would have tantalizingly enhanced it were it still a lost book.
    • 5/5
      I say, who doesn't love tales of royalty, piracy, adventure on the high seas, with an honest pirate if there is such a contradiction. Who in the end escapes his demise. I'm not certain but it sounded like it's a true story, I believe it is... Well worth the listen or read.
    • 4/5
      Predictable, but an entertaining swashbuckle of an adventure nonetheless. The final chapters leave much to be desired, but as a book that was never intended to see the light of publication, I forgive it.
    • 4/5
      Clever escapes. Justice for the good guys who were pretty much bad guys. Shows how governments can benefit from crime and is generally acceptable as long as we’re all benefiting from the system. Engaging. Good character and situational development.
    • 4/5
      Feels like a manuscript not a book. If Crichton had lived this could have been a better book. Having said that, it's still not bad. It reminds me of Captain Blood without the romance and with a little more edge.
    • 4/5
      A fast, easy read, fun, lots of adventure, very enjoyable.

      A number of characters from various walks of life - lawful and unlawful, highborn and low - makes for an interesting story. Action - including sabotage, naval engagements, piracy (of course), sharks, unfriendly natives, escapes, a hurricane, treachery, violent death - permeates the novel. I kept wondering, okay, how are these men going to get out of this danger?

      Pirate Latitudes was found as a completed novel in Crichton's papers after his death. In some ways, though, it felt incomplete. There were a number of plot elements that were not exploited very well, that came and went too quickly. I think any one of them could have been utilized to build the action and suspense even further. Even so, this book would make just as good a movie as so many of his other books have.

      Anyone planning a vacation to the Caribbean should read this book. But be warned: this is not Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean.
    • 3/5
      A fun read but the ending felt a little rushed. I saw where he was going with the pushy second in command suddenly turning against the crew and trying them for piracy but the execution just didn't work for me. I would have preferred to see the book end with them sailing into Port Royal and let me fill in their further adventures.
    • 3/5
      Not his best book, but still a good read. Seemed to be a lot of historical facts that were interesting.
    • 4/5
      This was the first Michael Crichton novel I've ever read and I was really surprised in some ways with how much I enjoyed it. It had a bit of a feel of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' in a way. I love the swashbuckling and the overall adventure of the story.
    • 4/5
      Decent story about privateers and sea battles, based in Jamaica but moving around a little. Makes me want to read about Henry Morgan sacking Panama.Definitely a beach read
    • 5/5
      I don't generally expect Michael Crichton's books to remind me of Horatio Hornblower's adventures, but this book is very much in that vein, only without all the sappy pseudo-romance that Hornblower books are riddled with after a while. The ending felt a bit rushed, but considering that this book was found in his files after his death and published posthumously, perhaps this is simply the unpolished version of a resolution that might under better circumstances have been more fully fleshed out.
    • 4/5
      Another fun book by Crichton with adventure, betrayal, unexpected turns, exotic locations, and...a fabled monster.However, it seems to me this may be a book that was draft form, which Crichton himself may not have finished before his death. It reads as if someone sort of fleshed it out, trying to keep as best he could in step with Crichton's style. If so, the anonymous co-writer doesn't succeed to well, in my opinion, for two reasons: (a) it's not as sharp and fast-paced as past books by Crichton, and (b) there's some sexual innuendo (nothing too explicit) that, unless I'm mistaken, is not Crichton's style.Nevertheless, worth the read for sure!
    • 4/5
      Really fun read. Crichton can tell a story. It's fun to read a period piece by an author that researched the period. Bad guys and high adventure. What's not to love.
    • 3/5
      I expected SciFi and got none of that....just a pirate historical fiction story.. There is a plot and some memorable characters, The plot proved that Crighton did his research well--read that in the publisher's review. He developed compelling characters involved in interesting situations, One cannot finish a review of a pirate story without using the word "swashbuckling", so here it is.
    • 2/5
      This book was a book club pick and seemed a bit rushed or unfinished. It seems Mr. Crichton had been working on this thing since the 70's and never got around to publishing it. That's probably because he never really put the finishing touches on it. It lacks any real surprises or twists. It's entertaining in a sort of swashbuckling adventure novel sort of way. Crichton was clearly a fan of historical naval trivia. He inserts a great deal of it throughout the book and I found it enjoyable. But some of the chapters felt like synopses that he never gotten around to finishing. Its a bit sad to read really. The family probably should have left this one alone and just treasured it as a family keepsake.