Larry Dickens - Novelist & Mariner

Reader Comments

                I welcome your comments about my book.  Please feel free to send them to SuLindHill.

"It was excellent.  I think both seagoing and non-seagoing people will really enjoy the book. I sure liked it!"
            - Captain Michael Blanton, U.S. Merchant Marine (retired), Nevada City, CA
 

"Hi Larry, Just finished reading Tropical Depression and wanted you to know that I enjoyed it very much.
I spent a couple of days reading it and found it hard to put down the first day.  The second day when I had a
chance to continue reading, I did not put it down until I was finished.   I spent 3 1/2 years aboard 3 different
navy ships in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This book will appeal to civilian and military sailors
throughout the world."

            - Dave Lamberson, Canandaigua, NY

"I just finished reading Tropical Depression, it was excellent!  You had me laughing, crying and sitting on the edge of my seat throughout the book."

            - Alex Turko, Melbourne, FL

"Larry, I just wanted to tell you that I finished Tropical Depression and enjoyed it very much.   It brought back lots of memories for me and a few familiar names and events that were fading a bit.  Having read a few other 'manuscripts' over the years from new authors, I also thought it was very well written."

        - Captain J.E. Carr, former LNG carrier master, London, UK 

"Larry, I just finished reading Tropical Depression, it was a great book; the title, of course caught my attention and as I read I found it very enjoyable, I read it in three days.  Your love of the sea comes through.  I found myself on the ship along with your crew.  Well done!

"I loved it!"

            - Nancy Viola, Piffard, NY

"Mr. Dickens; Just finished your book.  I enjoyed it very much; it's great reading to anybody who, like me, enjoys all sea stories.  I hope you will find the time to write more adult books.  I am a former Navyman and served on old Fleet class ocean tugs, first as a Quartermaster and later as a Lieutenant during the Vietnam War.  Like you, I've seen the South China Sea at its best and worst.  I can't believe it's any easier on a long vessel like a LNG carrier than a 200 foot tug.  Smooth sailing and a landman's breeze."  

           - Jim Thompson, Farmington, NY

"I am a NON fiction reader so I was out of my 'element.'  On a scale of 1-10  (ten best) you get a 10.
You are a 'stink pot' sailor.  I am a sailboat sailor.  Have done several passages.  Most recently we sailed
to French Polynesia and stayed for a year.  Your detail and 'story' about being around the water is really great. 
NON fiction.  Again, it was a pleasure.  The best to you in the future."

            - Bruce Curtis, Lahaina, Hawaii

"I enjoyed it so much I read it a second time!"
            - Roger Kessler, Canandaigua, NY

The author at the tiller during lifeboat exercises off the coast of Sumatra in 1996.
Photo copyright 1996 Larry Dickens

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