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So, finished "Pirate Latitudes" by Michael Crichton and it was definitely a fun read. I liked the main characters, some nice bastards XD, and I loved the villains, even bigger bastards~ The books has some nice twists and the ending partly really surprised me, because I already forgot that character X was such a bastard 8D I'm still a bid miffed that Cazalla died so early, but there are enough villains that are also fabulous (even though they're not valteresque). The parts with the kraken strained my suspense of disbelief very much and I didn't like them. All the other adventures were fun though.
I sometimes had a little problem with the language, because I still don't know all ship jargon. I could follow the action, but sometimes I was all o.O Also, the nastiness everywhere really adds to the atmosphere, even though it bordered on TMI sometimes XD But it did teach me what I'll probably gloss over in my Pirate AU (which I still plan on writing in the future).

So, if you want some nice pirate-y action and aren't squicked by a few nasty deaths and TMI in regard to hygiene, you might have fun with it. I definitely got something out of it; I still have to research much more for my Pirate AU~ And it's not that long; you could probably finish in a day or two.