Voracious Lu: A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

Monday, October 25, 2010

A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

It's about time I read something off the list that I've never heard of before so I have chosen A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes. I'm excited because I've never head anything about this one by the cover looks kinda cute. Here is the summary:

A High Wind in Jamaica - the classic novel of childhood in which Richard Hughes describes with perfect insight not only the adventures of a family of children caught up in the company of pirates but also, with magical clarity, the tropical landscape the children leave behind them and the endless ocean which they must cross.

Sounds like a cross between Pirates of the Caribbean and Swiss Family Robinson. Time to get reading!

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Books I've Read!

Sophie’s Choice – William Styron
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
Anthem – Ayn Rand
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
A Clockwork Orange -Anthony Burgess
Pride and Prejudice -Jane Austen
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Dracula - Bram Stoker
A High Wind In Jamaica - Richard Hughes
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Books Still Unread!

1984 – George Orwell
A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
A Dance to the Music of Time (series) – Anthony Powell
A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
A House for Mr. Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
A Passage to India – E.M. Foster
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
A Room with a View – E.M. Forster
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
All Quiet of the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
All the Kings Men – Robert Penn Warren
An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
Angle of Repose – Wallace Stegner
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables -L.M. Montgomery
Appointment in Samarra – John O’Hara
Arrowsmith – Sinclair Lewis
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Battlefield Earth – L. Ron Hubbard
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Citizen of the Galaxy – Robert Heinlein
Crime and Punishment -Fyodor Dostoevsky
Darkness at Noon – Arthur Koestler
David Copperfield -Charles Dickens
Death Comes For the Archbishop – Willa Cather
Deliverance – James Dickey
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
Double Star – Robert Heinlein
Dune – Frank Herbert
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Emma - Jane Austen
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
Farenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Fear - L. Ron Hubbard
Fifth Business – Robertson Davies
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
From Here to Eternity – James Jones
Go Tell It On the Mountain – James Baldwin
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
Green Mantle – Charles de Lint
Guilty Pleasures – Laurell K. Hamilton
Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman
Howards End – E. M. Forster
I, Claudius – Robert Graves
Illusions – Richard Bach
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Ironweed – William Kennedy
It – Stephen King
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Light In August – William Faulkner
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Loving – Henry Green
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Memory and Dream – Charles de Lint
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Mission Earth – L. Ron Hubbard
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Moonheart – Charles de Lint
Mulengro – Charles de Lint
My Antonia – Willa Cather
Mythago Wood – Robert Holdstock
Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs
Native Son – Richard Wright
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
On the Beach – Nevil Shute
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Lonely Night – Mickey Spillane
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
Parade’s End – Madox Ford
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Point Counter Point – Aldous Huxley
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
Scoop – Evelyn Waugh
Shane – Jack Schaefer
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Someplace to be Flying – Charles de Lint
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
Starship Troopers – Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
Suttree – Cormac McCarthy
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
The Alexandra Quartet – Lawrence Durell
The Ambassadors – Henry James
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Bridge of San Luis – Thornton Wilder
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Call of the Wild – Jack London
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Cunning Man – Robertson Davies
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West
The Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen
The Door into Summer – Robert Heinlein
The French Lieutenant’s Women – John Fowles
The Ginger Man – J.P. Donleavy
The Golden Bowl – Henry James
The Good Soldier – Madox Ford
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Handmaids Tale – Margret Atwood
The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
The Hunt for Red October – Tom Clancy
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Little Country – Charles de Lint
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Magnificent Ambersons – Booth Tarkington
The Magnus – John Fowles
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert Heinlein
The Moviegoer – Walker Percy
The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
The Puppet Masters – Robert Heinlein
The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
The Recognitions – William Gaddis
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
The Stand – Stephen King
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Studs Lonigan Trilogy – James T. Farrell
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
The Wapshot Chronicles – John Cheever
The Way of All Flesh – Samuel Butler
The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
The Wood Wife – Terri Windling
The World According to Garp – John Irving
The Worm Ouroboros – E.R. Eddison
To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Tobacco Road – Erskine Caldwell
Trader – Charles de Lint
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
Trustee from the Toolroom – Nevil Shute
U.S.A. (trilogy) – John Dos Passos
Ulysses – James Joyce
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
V. – Thomas Pynchon
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down – Richard Adams
We the Living – Ayn Rand
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Conner
Women In Love – D.H. Lawrence
Yarrow – Charles de Lint
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
Zuleika Dobson – Max Beerbohm

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Monday, October 25, 2010

A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

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