Gales of November: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Gales Of November by Robert J. Hemming.......2006-07-05

Out of all the books written about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, this one remains by far the best. Not only is the book filled with stunningly accurate details about the ship, it reads like a gripping novel. I especially admire the way the author chose to piece together the facts that he knew to recreate the story of the ship's actual sinking. Most other books I have read on the Fitz have been afraid to tackle such a challenge. Robert Hemming's compelling story will leave you on the edge of your seat and sometimes even reduce you to tears. This one is hard to put down and a must have for any maritime enthusiast.

A real yawner........2006-03-16

With all due respect to the families of the men lost on the Fitz, this book is a real yawner. But look on the bright side of things -- if you sufffer from insomnia, you've just found your cure!!! Lots of passive verbs, cliches, irrelevant trivia. yaaaaaaaaaaawn.

The most famous ship-wreck of the mighty Great Lakes!.......2006-02-21

I really enjoyed this book. It's an exciting re-telling of the famous Edmund Fitzgerald ore-freighter that sank in the east-end of Lake Superior during a horrific storm in November of '75. I first heard about it and the famous Gordon Lightfoot song that describes it when I was just a little kid, and have been interested in it since. But after reading this exciting book, I quickly became even more fascinated and I look forward to exploring the whole disaster a little more. If you liked the movies "Titanic" and "The Perfect Storm", or have always had an interest in famous ship-wreck stories, you will love this book. Although I rated it a 4, it's really in my opinion a 4.5. That lacking half point is only due to a slight over-abundance of mini-biographies of the Captain and his crew, but atleast you develop a more emotional connection to the entire story as a whole than you would if it was just fact-based. You may read from other reviews that the last few hours of the ship's demise was a fictional description from the author due to a lack of actual survivors, but in my opinion, that in no way takes anything away from the story-line, because the fiction in regards to what actually happened in those last hours is based on some found evidence to support it to a certain degree. An over-all great book!

Facts, Figures and Creative License...?.......2004-12-06

Hemming has written some excellent accounts of disasters on the Great Lakes (see "Ships Gone Missing"), and this book has some very good qualities.

The covering of the history of the Fitz, and that of her crew is well done, and the descriptions of the character bring them to life.

There are also interviews with surviving family members and those who came across the Fitz both before and during the final trip.

Hemming goes with what appears to be the main theory regarding the boat's sinking, that she took on more and more water and dove into a huge wave, unable to recover.

One of the problems I do have is the creative license Hemming takes in trying to recreate what happened on the Fitz, especially as the vessel sank. He did this as well in "Ships Gone Missing," but here I'm not sure if it was such a good idea.

To have people doing and saying certain things is impossible to know that they did anything like that. I can see where Hemming tried to place the men where he thought they'd be, but it's hard to say.

Some of it was a bit melodramatic, but for the most part this is a good book with many facts on the boat and what may have happened.

Frederick Stonehouse as also written a very good book on the Fitz, including testimony and reports from the Coast Guard and the Lake Carriers Association.

Hemming's Voyage to Oblivion.......2004-05-11

The Gales of November was purchased on the strength of the information I could access through the Amazon pages and online discussions I held at Encylopedia Titanica. It was a purchase well made.

As the Edmund Fitzgerald crosses Lake Superiror we are given background into the running of these kind of ships and one by one the names of the 29 are given lives as Mr Hemming shares the story of their backgrounds. As events worsen to the terrifying and rapid conclusion I am made to identify with these men which makes those few minutes even worse.

Mr Hemming resorts to informed artistic licence to give us asense of what may have taken place, and to my thinking he does it well. Some may not like this style which is also used in the film and book Perfect Storm but it is necessary if we are to create a narrative of the events that led up to the sinking.

I understand that a film is being considered. If so It will make frightful viewing especially for anyone who makes the living on the sea.

Thank you Mr Hemming, Gordon Lightfoot, Amazon and all who made this book possible.

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Mr. Mulliner, a character who provided Wodehouse with some of his best vignettes, is first introduced in Meet Mr. Mulliner, along with his endless supply of brothers, nephews, and cousins, who are featured in the tales Mulliner tells the regulars at his favorite pub, The Angler's Rest.

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Not Wodehouse's funniest collection.......2006-08-03

The Mulliner tales are mostly mildly entertaining. I usually laugh out loud at Wodehouse stories and re-read passages and whole books for joy at his use of language, but these stories don't have the same zing as other Wodehouse works. There a few cute ones with a few chuckles, but overall the stories feel tired.

The perfect book of short stories.......2005-05-20

P.G. Wodehouse is a master of the English language and of creating highly improbable situations for his protagonists to get into and out of. Of his many superb characters, Mr. Mulliner is one of the most hilarious.

All these stories start off with Mr. Mulliner, a kindly Englishman in his sixties, sitting in an English bar and having a drink with his many friends. As the conversation swings this way and that, Mr. Mulliner is reminded of his seemingly unlimited nephews and nieces who went through just such a situation (as is being discussed), and he launches into a narration of their story. But of course each situation is unique and, more importantly, both completely improbable and yet plausible at the same time.

This book is the perfect read when you want a quick read and a bunch of chuckles. Or, you can just keep reading through the book and be a little annoyed when it is over and you realize there is no more stories left.

Never fear, though: you can re-read these stories with the same enjoyment over and over again, for years to come. Like fine wine, Wodehouse's narrations age beautifully. He is a master of comedy. No one else even comes close.

Tales about chemists, ghosts, bishops, and bulb-squeezers.......2005-04-19

Through his barfly creation, Mr. Mulliner, Wodehouse dispels the common notion that all tall tales originate in Texas. In The Angler's Rest, an oh-so-British pub, Mulliner holds court--or, more precisely, he overwhelms the possibility of alternative banter among the regulars. The slightest conversational tidbit or abbreviated anecdote will set Mulliner off on a shaggy-dog story about the improbable escapades of one of his relatives, and each tale follows a similar blueprint, culminating in the expected "saved-from-a-tough-spot" resolution or (more often) a boy-gets-girl finale.

As always with Wodehouse, to sum up the plot of one story is to sum up all of them; instead, the devil is scattered, liberally, in the details. The pleasure of reading his tales arises not from discovering what happens--nor from even from seeing how it happens--but from the slapstick follies and rapid-fire wit of the character sketches who populate his world. Still, there are three stories out of the nine in this volume that stand out because they form a continuum of sorts; one might even call the trilogy an accidental novella. They feature common characters: the pharmacist William Mulliner, his wife Angela, their nephew Augustine (a curate), and the bishop of Stortford. The comedy results from the unexpected results produced by William's toxic and not-yet-patented concoctions--especially Buck-U-Uppo, which seems to have all the redundant power of Red Bull laced with a jolt of amphetamine. And it's absolutely priceless when Augustine addresses his superior with a greeting like "Cheerio, bish. How's the lumbago today?"

Ironically, the memorable nature of these three consecutive stories reminds me why I prefer Wodehouse's novels, in which the humor inexorably builds to an uproarious crescendo. I will always get a kick out of Wodehouse's shorter fare and the diversions they supply, but their impressions consistently fade as soon as the laughter dies down.

Meet Mr. Mulliner's Family.......2002-02-01

Over a few drinks at The Anglers' Rest, Mulliner is likely to captivate the locals with tales about his cousins, uncles, brothers and various other relatives. Meet George Mulliner and learn how a mad dash through the English countryside can cure a bad case of stuttering. Meet Augustine Mulliner and his rise through the ranks of the Anglican Church with a trusty flask of his uncle Wilfred Mulliner's experimental Buck-U-Uppo tonic at his side.

Plum delivers a polished and quirky narrative throughout the nine short stories in this book. His formulaic method of story-telling makes you feel like you are one of those locals who come back time-and-again to slake their thirst over a Mulliner tale -- who insists, by the by, that they are all true and unexaggerated.

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