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The rapid-fire adventure is also salted generously with sex and violence. Sailors get shot in the head, blood gushes, brains splatter. Eager maidens are disrobed and bedded down without much effort. There’s a gruesome killfest extravaganza near the conclusion that neatly ties up all the loose ends. But it’s action-movie sex and violence: flashy, without repercussions or remorse. These aren’t people getting killed; they’re just pirates.
In all, there’s a lot of pirating stuffed into 320 fast-moving pages, a little bit like the frenzied doctoring that went on in Crichton’s hit TV show “ER,” and it’s hard after a while to swallow all that dying and dramatic rescuing in such a short space. We’re not looking for realism, of course, but all the nick-of-time escapes and rescues strain belief, even by the looser standards of an adventure novel.
Take the climactic scene, maybe the most ludicrous invention in the whole book. Not to give away any surprises, but it entails a bit of trickery involving a makeshift scarecrow and an enthusiastic prostitute. (Scarecrows!) Consider that for a moment, me hearties, and you’ll get a sense of just how loopy a pirate’s life can be.

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The rapid-fire adventure is also salted generously with sex and violence. Sailors get shot in the head, blood gushes, brains splatter. Eager maidens are disrobed and bedded down without much effort. There’s a gruesome killfest extravaganza near the conclusion that neatly ties up all the loose ends. But it’s action-movie sex and violence: flashy, without repercussions or remorse. These aren’t people getting killed; they’re just pirates.
In all, there’s a lot of pirating stuffed into 320 fast-moving pages, a little bit like the frenzied doctoring that went on in Crichton’s hit TV show “ER,” and it’s hard after a while to swallow all that dying and dramatic rescuing in such a short space. We’re not looking for realism, of course, but all the nick-of-time escapes and rescues strain belief, even by the looser standards of an adventure novel.
Take the climactic scene, maybe the most ludicrous invention in the whole book. Not to give away any surprises, but it entails a bit of trickery involving a makeshift scarecrow and an enthusiastic prostitute. (Scarecrows!) Consider that for a moment, me hearties, and you’ll get a sense of just how loopy a pirate’s life can be.

See the full article from “Foster’s Daily Democrat”

After novels such as “Waiting,’’ set in modern China, and “War Trash,’’ which depicted Chinese POWs during the Korean War, Ha Jin returns to short fiction with a volume of 12 stories that gracefully convey the often disorienting reality of Chinese immigrant life in the United States. “[T]he American type of success was not for everyone,’’ one character reflects. “You must learn how to sell yourself there and must change yourself to live a new life.’’
A visiting professor attempts to defect, a home health aide is ensnared by her elderly client, an indentured prostitute makes a break for freedom. In Jin’s stories, the life of each character, masterfully compressed, is granted depth and even occasional nobility.
Jin left China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. The author of five novels, three story collections, and three volumes of poetry, he is a professor of English at Boston University. He spoke from his home in Boston.

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Through his organization American Solutions, Newt Gingrich invited Dawn Rizos–the owner of Dallas’ most upscale strip club The Lodge– to dine with him at the exclusive Capitol Club (where conservative porn star Carrie Prejean backed out of speaking engagement!) and informed her that she had been selected to receive an Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Now that’s the new GOP for ya! The handwritten note on the invite read
Dawn â Newt is looking forward to finally meeting you face to face
The cost to secure her spot with Newt? $5,000. Pretty sleazy huh? But it gets sleazier! Dawn got the the unvite! CNN reports that after the The Lodge sent in the check for five grand:
they were notified by a marketing company working for American Solutions that the invite had been mistakenly extended, and was being rescinded.

See the full article from “Firedoglake (blog)”