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Laura Doe (1350 KP) rated Never Never in Books

Oct 23, 2022  
Never Never
Never Never
Serena Valentino | 2022 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Serena Valentino’s books are amazing. This is the story of Captain Hook that I never knew that I needed.
We find out how Captain Hook learnt of Neverland in the first place… when he was a child he fell out of his pram and ended up in Neverland. He then spent the rest of his childhood years trying to get back there, when he realised he couldn’t, he decided that he was going to become and pirate and spent all of his years in school learning everything there was to know about pirates and ships so that when he graduated, he could join up and live out his dream.
This book not only gives us a backstory about Captain Hook, but we also have some pirate tales added in, with stories of Blackbeard, Calico Jack, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. This just helps to give the book a little more depth around the backstory.
We also get to revisit Circe and Lucinda again, with Lucinda being as deceitful as ever and Circe still trying to fix everything her mothers have messed up. Although I didn’t see the twist at the end coming, but that just made the book better in my opinion.
Although it’s a short book, I didn’t feel like the story was rushed in the slightest. And as with all of the other villains books, I started to feel some sympathy towards Captain Hook and understood how he became the person that he is in Peter Pan.
  
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Mark Halpern (153 KP) rated Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) in Movies

Jan 4, 2018  
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
2003 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
9
8.2 (162 Ratings)
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Why Rum Gone
Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) plays our beloved pirate to love and hate in this adaption of a Disney ride. The movie from the word go is filled with action,comedy and suspense as we follow our captain take possession of a powerful boat with the help of Orlando bloom and try to rescue our damsel in distress Nightly and recover the last gold coin of a lost treasure to try and break and long time curse. This movie storyline took time and patience to make sure everything flowed right and it does. To me there is not a moment of down time and my favorite line when marooned on an island is "Why Rum Gone" Enjoy
  
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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2488 KP) rated The Terror of the Southlands (The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates, #2) in Books

Mar 9, 2018  
TT
The Terror of the Southlands (The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates, #2)
Caroline Carlson | 2014
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Hilary’s lack of activity has gotten her in trouble with Captain Blacktooth, and if she wants to retain her title as a pirate, she needs to go on a big quest. When her friend Miss Pimm is kidnapped, she decides to find her. However, is that a quest that Blacktooth will approve?

The plot was a little slow in this one, especially in the middle. The characters were still wonderful, and the humor I loved from the first book was still all over the book as well. Fans of the first will be glad to spend more time with Hilary and her friends.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2014/09/book-review-terror-of-southlands-by.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Duff McKagan recommended L.A.M.F. by Johnny Thunders / Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers in Music (curated)

 
L.A.M.F. by Johnny Thunders / Johnny Thunders &amp; The Heartbreakers
L.A.M.F. by Johnny Thunders / Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
1977 | Rock
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"I went to see Walter Lure [Heartbreakers guitarist] play L.A.M.F. a couple of weeks ago. I went to this by myself in downtown LA. There's five dollar parking across the street, and I parked my car. I went in and saw Pirate Love, Born To Lose, Chinese Rocks. That's all I needed. It was great. This record made a huge impact on me. Johnny Thunders' playing and Jonsey's [Sex Pistols' Steve Jones] playing: I've played guitar ever since, and that's who I fashion my guitar playing after. I got to play in a band with Steve in the 90s [Neurotic Outsiders], and it was like a dream come true. I started playing guitar and he immediately recognised where I got all my riffs from!"

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