You might also consider "The Cruel Sea" by Nicholas Monsarrat or "The Good Shepherd" by C.S. Forester. Some other good ones are the Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester.
You might also consider "The Cruel Sea" by Nicholas Monsarrat or "The Good Shepherd" by C.S. Forester. Some other good ones are the Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester.
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor by John Barth
A lot many poems starting with Homer's epics and shorter poems like Tennyson's
Break, Break, Break:
"Break, Break, Break"
Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
O well for the fisherman's boy,
That he shouts with his sister at play!
O well for the sailor lad,
That he sings in his boat on the bay!
And the stately ships go on
To their haven under the hill:
But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!
Break, break, break,
At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me.
This poem haunts me during my annual holiday in Cornwall. In night time I find myself thinking about Sweet and Low by the same poet:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/arch...html?id=174650
then there is Hardy's Convergence of the Twain :
http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~gverhoef/titanic.htm
Plays:
Anna Christie and The Hairy Ape by Eugen O' Neil and, of course, The Tempest. That is all I can think of as the baby is howling in my ears asking me to read her Who is Hiding in the Jungle (too many fans of literature around me!)
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
This probably won't be exactly what you're looking for, but there's this wonderful children's book called The Whale Song. It's about a little girl who lives by the sea and tries to hear the whales singing, and eventually she does. It's got really beautiful illustrations and is (unnusually for a children's book) incredibly poignant and haunting. It only takes a few minutes to read (and a few hours to gaze at the illustrations) but is definately worth having a look at if you want to get a sense of wonder and amazement at the sea.
"The magic gave me insight, and you gave me a heart, but for all the heart and insight in the world, I am still a cat."
I have read most of the recommended novels here, and there are some very good ones. My personal favorite has to be "The Sharks" by Jens Bjorneboe. Simply one of my favorite books - a great read.
http://home.att.net/~emurer/works/schultz.htm
I have just picked up a book which had The Bounty Trilogy all in one. I was pretty happy and excited about that.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
good find dark muse! and i hope you will tell me how you like it...i think im the only one on the thread to recommend it, so a lot of pressure on me! smiles...Originally Posted by Dark Muse
I will be sure to let you know once I do get to reading it
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
That sounds really interesting
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
You could try reading the Hornblower novels (11 in all) by C.S. Forester. I loved the books and I loved the series!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio...nblower_novels
For the movies...start here
Horatio Hornblower: The Duel (part 1)
Also check out these others:
Horatio Hornblower: The Fire Ships
Horatio Hornblower: The Duchess & the Devil
Horatio Hornblower: The Frogs & the Lobsters
Horatio Hornblower: Mutiny
Horatio Hornblower: Retribution
Horatio Hornblower: Loyalty
Horatio Hornblower: Duty
You won't be disappointed...
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
"Old Man and The Sea" by Hemingway was good. Hemingway's style works perfectly with the suspense of the high-stakes fishing that the plot revolves around. If you like music, you should listen to a series of symphonic sketches by Claude Debussy called La Mer, which means "the sea" in french. The first movement is beautiful.
Lord Jim is a bit tedious, but I had to read it in college.
Years later, I reread it and found out how good a book it is. Conrad was so prolific, like Faulkner, that you should try some others, then come back to Lord Jim. Also, a very good movie was made of Lord Jim with James Mason and Peter O'toole. It might help if you watched it. Nostromo and The Secret Sharer are two good Conrad novels.
The Sea-Wolf is classic London, I've read it twice. Fenimore Cooper also wrote some sea stories set in our Revoltionary war. Try the Pilot, a tale about John Paul Jones.
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