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Clive Cussler fans ??????

glh said:
Paul:

I read your original post and I must admit the subtlety escaped me also. I am accustomed to seeing persons on a message board who indicate sarcasm or attempting to be subtle with a:

1. :=) -- Smiley face at the end. What I said was in jest.
2. <grin> -- I'm grinning. Again, what I said was in jest.
3. (Sarcasm on/off) -- Everything in-between was sarcasm.

This way, the reader knows that no offense is really intended.
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Your correct GLH that it can be difficult at times to read a persons true meaning in a text message without the use of smiley faces but I have never really cared for them coming from an older school. I try not to offend anyone when I write and will be quick to apologize if I do so out of misunderstanding. I avoid any forum thread I see as confrontational but I just had to jump into this one (not that it was confrontational). I just wont let anybody mess with my Clive Cussler. :sniper: :tgun2: :greenbo: :jump:


I sometimes wounder how people communicated what they thought and felt over great distances when the only form of communication available was the written word and possibly months before the recipient received it, as it was in the18[SUP]th[/SUP] century. I read a lot of history.


Paul


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Ivan said:
Regarding the boilers on the Titanic....

During the actual sinking, the hull apparently broke apart at the surface.

The premise of the Cussler book was that it was possible to raise the wreckage. How intact did the book describe the wreckage? In other words, I thought the hull was nearly intact, and if so, how does a boiler pop out?

I HAVE read this novel, but it has been so long that I don't remember the details. When the exploration of the real Titanic was conducted, I pretty much forgot the book account.

- Ivan.
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Now lets remember Cussler's book was years before the real discovery... so theoretical.

he theorized that she sank intact... well, no, not theorized... 'modified history' to suit a book about raising her. The breakup was documented fact. Pretty pointless raising two halves of the ship.

Anyway... as the ship descended, the boilers would have apparently ripped loose of their mounts, and barred through bulkheads towards the lowest point, before bursting from the bow.... the sudden weight loss would have created a shift in direction pulling her further away from her sinking location... lnteresting enough adaptation with physics to back it up... if she'd stayed in one piece, it might have gone down that way.
 
But seriously folks.
Sorta.
Never have read any of Clive's work.
Lately been reading a lot of Carl Hiaason and Jeff Shaara.
But authors do make mistakes I don't write that much and I goof quite often.
I tend to blame the editors it's their job to catch the goofs.
 
After I finish this one (The Kingdom), I'm going to re-read a Victorian era book called The Pearl for the 500th time........
 
gradyhappyg said:
But seriously folks.
Sorta.
Never have read any of Clive's work.
Lately been reading a lot of Carl Hiaason and Jeff Shaara.
But authors do make mistakes I don't write that much and I goof quite often.
I tend to blame the editors it's their job to catch the goofs.
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While itd your book, and you're job to find and fix mistakes... the editors are paid to catch what you miss... Which makes it their fault (Im sticking to that story your honor)

Technical errors like this one or two, will never get caught by editors... who probably in all likelyhood have less technical knowlage on the field than the author.... and as such, would never know the difference.
 
I also abhor blatent errors. I remember the first page of a novel which now escapes me where a pilot of an F-4 lands at Da Nang and "...selects reverse thrust".

Never got past page 1.
 
I've read everything that has his name on it, and I'm curently half way through 'The Kingdom'. He boo boo's every so often, but I forgive him (and his co-witers).
 
Hey All,

Isn't that the turboprop conversion for the super duper piper cub he's referring to? :icon_lol:

-Ed-
 
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