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Great entertainment. If I had read this as an adolescent as I should have, it would be five stars. As it is, I can't entirely overlook how preposterous and predictable this is, but who cares when it's so much fun?
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If you want more high sea adventures with pirates, look no further. Told in the same vein of great story-telling as his predecessor, Alexander Dumas, provides a thrilling tale of danger and desire when a good man, Dr. Peter Blood, is wrongly accused of treachery and sentenced to hard labor in the Caribbean, wherein he meets and falls for a fiery young woman. As is usually the case, life for a criminal on the outside is limited to piracy, with Blood taking the high road version. The ending should
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