![]() ![]() Highly picturesque and episodic, CAPTAIN BLOOD is a bit of a mess, with Blodgett demonstrating great descriptive power yet very little storytelling prowess. ![]() ![]() To shock publishers in the 1970s, when pornographic novels were prevalent and minutely described sex and violence were constants in mainstream fiction, was no small feat! The first novel by actor-turned-writer Michael Blodgett, CAPTAIN BLOOD (initially titled THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN BLOOD) was completed in 1977 but not published until two years later, having reportedly inspired a lot of controversy in the interim. Strong arguments can be made for both views. Beyond that, however, I’m not entirely sure if CAPTAIN BLOOD is some kind of transgressive masterpiece or simply a twisted mess of epic proportions. ![]() Here we have one of the few novels that can accurately be summed up by the vastly over-utilized term mind-blowing. ![]()
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