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Richard Armstrong ústy svého mladičkého vypravěče předává čtenáři obraz veliké lidské odvahy, dobrodružství, jaké si my suchozemci ani neumíme představit. můžeme si jenom s Thornem, když se houpá na rozbouřeném moři v záchraném člunu, položit otázku: Bylo, či nebylo tajné moře zakleté?
110 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1948
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Richard Armstrong
24 books1 followerRichard Armstrong was an English author who wrote for both adults and children. Most of his books were novels set at sea, or sea stories.
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December 19, 2022
My mother's younger brother, he owned a copy of Richard Armstrong's novel Sea change (the 1948 Carnegie Medal winner) and which I read when I visited my grandparents in 1978 during a summer visit to Germany from Canada (and my grandparents were storing my uncle's books a their house while he was travelling and working in Asia). And I must (and very readily so) admit that I really do not remember all that much textual detail from my 1978 perusal of Sea Change except that I totally found the story, and by this also Richard Armstrong as an author not really to my liking and way too much male and sea-story oriented for my personal reading tastes.
For honestly, while I actually do not generally mind reading novels (of adventure, survival, battles/war etc.) that are primarily geared towards a male audience, I do indeed really have majorly big-time issues with novels, with any kind of fiction in fact where basically all of the the appearing and written about characters are male (and to be perfectly honest, I also do not really like reading fiction where all of the characters are female that much either, that for me, good and readable literature should truly not ever feature only one gender, so no, all female characters chick lit is therefore also totally not my thing as well). So yes and indeed, that in Sea Change, only men and teenaged boys (only sailors) are basically being presented by Richard Armstrong, and that furthermore, everything is only about the sea and takes place aboard a ship, well, this is really ALL I firmly can remember about Sea Change (and that this is obviously rather majorly tedious for and to me and as such probably the main reason why I do not recall much regarding Sea Change except for being more than a bit frustrated and annoyed with and by Richard Armstrong's characters and his one-sided, on gendered storytelling).
And thus, albeit that many literature critics obviously seem to really value how uncompromisingly realistic Sea Change is (and for 1948, I do agree this is kind of pretty avant-garde), that only one gender is being used by Richard Armstrong, for me, this really does make Sea Change not that readable and totally frustrating (as well as lacking) on an emotional and reading pleasure level (and something rather overly draggingly monocultural at best). But actually, I also cannot really say that I remember enough of Sea Change to not recommend this story, but simply that for me, neither Richard Armstrong's writing style nor the ALL boys atmosphere of his presented text make me in any way textually thrilled and wanting to try to find a copy of Sea Change for purchase (as Sea Change is not in current print and pretty expensive online, and I really do not want to spend a lot of money to buy a novel of which my only distance remembrance is not really enjoying and being frustrated with my reading experience).
For honestly, while I actually do not generally mind reading novels (of adventure, survival, battles/war etc.) that are primarily geared towards a male audience, I do indeed really have majorly big-time issues with novels, with any kind of fiction in fact where basically all of the the appearing and written about characters are male (and to be perfectly honest, I also do not really like reading fiction where all of the characters are female that much either, that for me, good and readable literature should truly not ever feature only one gender, so no, all female characters chick lit is therefore also totally not my thing as well). So yes and indeed, that in Sea Change, only men and teenaged boys (only sailors) are basically being presented by Richard Armstrong, and that furthermore, everything is only about the sea and takes place aboard a ship, well, this is really ALL I firmly can remember about Sea Change (and that this is obviously rather majorly tedious for and to me and as such probably the main reason why I do not recall much regarding Sea Change except for being more than a bit frustrated and annoyed with and by Richard Armstrong's characters and his one-sided, on gendered storytelling).
And thus, albeit that many literature critics obviously seem to really value how uncompromisingly realistic Sea Change is (and for 1948, I do agree this is kind of pretty avant-garde), that only one gender is being used by Richard Armstrong, for me, this really does make Sea Change not that readable and totally frustrating (as well as lacking) on an emotional and reading pleasure level (and something rather overly draggingly monocultural at best). But actually, I also cannot really say that I remember enough of Sea Change to not recommend this story, but simply that for me, neither Richard Armstrong's writing style nor the ALL boys atmosphere of his presented text make me in any way textually thrilled and wanting to try to find a copy of Sea Change for purchase (as Sea Change is not in current print and pretty expensive online, and I really do not want to spend a lot of money to buy a novel of which my only distance remembrance is not really enjoying and being frustrated with my reading experience).
April 14, 2016
Sea Change. Richard Armstrong. 1948 @CILIPCKG #Carnegie Life at sea with a moral lesson about how adults know what's best for you.
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June 8, 2021
"Život," slyšel jsem ho jednou, "je prostě nekonečný vtip. Ještě jaktěživo se o něj nikdo neprosil, ale všichni si ho musíme protrpět, a vůbec ze všeho nejhorší je brát ho vážně anebo si myslet, že můžete hru vzdát. Nemůžete. Právě proto se chechtám, až se za břicho popadám. Jednou v tom žertu jedeme, takže se člověk musí smát, nebo ho to položí.
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