This interview is a couple of years old but worth a watch if you are a fan. Dirk Pitt kicks James Bond into a cocked hat. The only other fictional hero that comes close is Travis McGee. Neither have ever been put onto film as well as they deserve although Sahara is a pretty good film. If anyone has a spare $100 million dollars I would be more than happy to make a Dirk Pitt movie that puts him up there where he belongs.
Monday, 7 April 2008
Interview with Clive Cussler.....the best adventure writer of all time.
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My Father will love this.
Thanks Theo
Sorry, but I have to disagree - interesting man but his books don't match up. I find his writing almost as cardboard cutout as a Jack Higgins...
Dirk Pitt and Co. have had some of the best adventures i have ever read.
Sahara was the best. Long Live Clive Cussler.
Clive Cussler's prose has all the grace of a three-legged dog chasing a jackrabbit on ice, but people seem to like it so good luck to the man.
And Sahara was a much better movie than it's given credit for being.
I have to agree with Hovis and Mcenroe - CC is way overrated and has a huge ego, which I find has been showing up more and more in his writing - such that it is. You have to wonder about a man who names his own son "Dirk", after his fictional character and (IMHO) alter-ego, injects himself into the storyline, and finds it necessary to have his "hero" drive CC's latest antique car acquisition. This is cheap schtick.
Theo, pay no attention to the previous posters. They apparently don't understand that CC has a sense of humor. And why not name your son, Dirk, after the character that has made you a success. His son doesn't seem to mind.
I don't know why they are so worried about "prose" in an adventure novel.
Dirk gets more women and has more fun than any 007. Not to mention his follow on characters to take Dirk's place in the modern world.
Go CC and Dirk!
Oh, and don't miss CC's non fiction. Very interesting.
CC was so disgusted by the experience making "Sahara" and so disliked the end product he has sworn to never ever allow Hollywood to make one of his novels into a movie, ever.
And the arrogance found in his newer novels is from his co-writer, Paul Camprecos, whom in my opinion is not a pimple on the ass of CC.
Dirk Pitt was named after CC's son. He was three years old, when Clive started to write his first Pitt novel.
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