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Ramage & the Dido (The Lord Ramage Novels) |  | Author: Dudley Pope
Publisher: McBooks Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 622021
Media: Paperback
Pages: 272
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1590130243
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781590130247
ASIN: 1590130243
Publication Date: September 1, 2002
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Captain Lord Ramage has only just arrived home when he receives new orders: he is to commission and take command of the Dido, a massive seventy-four-gun ship! The youngest captain of a ship of the line since Nelson, Ramages new command carries enough weight of metal to destroy a frigate in a single broadside, or sweep a ships decks clear of men. Accompanied by the courageous crew of the Calypso, Ramage ventures to sea once againthis time bound for the West Indies, and Martenique, where he once captured Diamond Rock. Not only must he face the challenges of commanding such a massive weapon of war, but if he is to succeed, he must put the Didos weapons to their fullest useor die trying!
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 A Cruel Ending April 19, 2009
Cpt. Billy Bones (Lost Coast, Ca. USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Yes... A cruel ending for this great string of novels... Dudley Pope died before he could finish this series and the ending of the last one "...Dido" is a gigantic cliffhanger... Clearly he intended to go on to the end of the "Age of Sail"
This literally screams for a "Fan Fiction" addendum... So get busy all you budding writers.... Ramage has yet to "hoist his flag at the mizzen"
"BarBQue"
A good read July 23, 2008
Dr J (Salem, OR United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the last installment of Dudley Pope's Ramage series. Our hero, Ramage, has finally been given command of a ship of the the line. He is sent ot the Caribbean to deal with the French there. He singlehandedly wins the war for the British in the Caribbean. As another reviewer has mentioned, everything really is too easy for Ramage. Never a tight spot he can't get out of very easily. Why then five stars? This series is really not meant to be very realistic. It's a superman sort of series. The hero always gets out of every jam with little problem. If you keep that in mind, you can enjoy the series. The other reason for five stars is that there is plenty of action--lots of fighting in this book. Not a lot of down time. Also, it's an easy read--the language is easy and it just keeps moving along. So, if you want a simple, hero-oriented series to introduce yourself to the naval fiction genre, this is for you. If you want blood and guts, real life navy, then you might want to move on to something else.
I am a bit surprised that this is the last in the series. The last line even indicates that there is more in store for Ramage. No loose ends are tied up. Yes, I know that Pope passed away--but nearly a decade after thsi was published. Seems like he could have pumped out a few more and had Ramage finally retire. Oh well. It's been fun to read this series. I've reviewed all the books in the series, so have a look at them to see if this is what you want. I enjoyed them.
 Alas, the last July 14, 2003
tertius3 (MI United States)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I'm glad to have this volume in print again, but it's perhaps the most disappointing in the series. It's the last installment in an unfinished saga by the late Dudley Pope. Everything here is MUCH too easy for Ramage (still a captain) and his trusty, rich, and invulnerable Calypso crew, now shipping out in the Dido, a formidable 3rd rate "74" ship of the line. In some ways (simple lingo, explanatory vignettes, lots of action) this last volume is an easy introduction to nautical fiction. Or one could say there's lots of padding, one too many books in the series. After the unique setting of the penultimate novel #17, fighting the exotic Saracens, Pope is so tired that he even has Ramage return to the scene of one of his greatest accomplishments in the Caribbean (#7 Ramage's Diamond) and substantially repeats the same achievements to a still finer degree. Ramage fights five nearly bloodless ship battles and leads a cutting out expedition in boats. It's pretty incredible, Ramage is never at a loss for tricks and the French always are. I never felt much tension, suspense, or terror in the story, not strong points in Pope's prose anyway.
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