# On Stranger Tides.  Anyone read it?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-stranger-tides-anyone-read-it/199712>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 5, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-stranger-tides-anyone-read-it/199712 "2003-09-05T13:09:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-stranger-tides-anyone-read-it/199712/21 "2003-10-03T12:46:27Z")

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I just wanted to mention that I just won an Ebay auction yesterday with Stranger Tides and Dinner at the Deviant’s Palace. I’m pretty pumped.

The only really depressing thing is that I won’t let myself read them until I finish proofing my friend’s manuscript (he’s writing a fantasy novel and it’s _hideous_–talk about setting the bar at ankle height…) and Robert Jordan’s latest trainwreck. _sigh_

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-stranger-tides-anyone-read-it/199712/22 "2003-10-03T12:58:47Z")

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**Slotar** Just think of your new-to-you books as a reward for slogging through your friends manuscript.

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**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-stranger-tides-anyone-read-it/199712/23 "2003-10-03T14:11:55Z")

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I’d post excerpts but I’m afraid he’d google for it and get his feelings hurt. _sigh_ But he does have talent–I’ve read some great short stories he’s done. I’m hoping he gets into the swing of it soon…

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**Author:** ![KingLupid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/839c29/32.png) [@KingLupid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KingLupid)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-stranger-tides-anyone-read-it/199712/24 "2003-10-03T16:42:28Z")

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GRRRRR, dang it! Slortar, I meant to bid on that auction and forgot!

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**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-stranger-tides-anyone-read-it/199712/25 "2003-10-03T17:26:33Z")

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**Shirley** , I think you’ll like _Anubis Gates_. Having just finished _Declare_, it put me in the mood for more Powers, and since he hasn’t come out with anything else, I just went back and re-read _Anubis_. Lots of tension, and he plots that one a lot tighter than some of his later books. (And I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say, man, does that guy get beat up in that book.)

I think I need to find a copy of _The Stress of Her Regard_ next - I think I’ve read it, but I can’t remember the details, and I don’t have a copy of it…

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