I've always been particularly partial to this book, and its sequel, Red Rackham's Treasure, so I was very glad they incorporated it into the movie. Captain Haddock is of course hilarious and the running gags -- the Thom(p)sons and their hats, the pickpocket, the Captain's drink -- were all excellently timed from start to finish. Another favourite in this series.

Olen lukenut tämänkin albumin aikoinani ja muistin pätkiä sieltä täältä. Toisaalta muistot sekoittuivat tästä ja seuraavasta kirjasta tehtyyn elokuvaan

I absolutely adored this.
It was such a cute and entertaining read. The art is so great and so glad I finally read the original as I love the 2011 film so much. I will definitely be trying to get my hands on more volumes of this.

Tintin is browsing the market when he buys a wonderful old model of a ship that leads him into danger and intrigue. This is part one, so if you plan to read this make sure you pick up [b:Red Rackham's Treasure|146109|Red Rackham's Treasure (Tintin, #12)|Hergé|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1352642695l/146109._SX50_.jpg|729618] as well.

Maybe i didn't find it amusing since i had seen the movie when it came out.But hey its not like i enjoyed the movie as well. okay'ish at its best

I might also be because it was written for audiences of 1940's and i ave read it after 74 years since published,the storytelling nowadays have dramatically changed and i believe we should keep this in mind before drawing conclusions.

Tintin books are fun, especially for young readers, and hold up remarkably well decades after being published. This book is the first of (at least) two parts, wherein Tintin is caught up in an adventure to find a pirate's treasure. This part is how Tintin finds the secret directions to the treasure. It's filled with action set pieces, salted with plenty of humor, mainly in the form of slapstick comedy, as everyone gets bonked on the head or falls down at some point. The resolution wraps up fairly quickly at the end with a long info dump by one of the crooks, and then there's a cliffhanger as Tintin and Captain Haddock begin to make plans to recover the treasure. The artwork is clean and simple. Some of the drawings of the ships are quite detailed.

I'm not sure why this book is nominated for a Retro Hugo Award. First, there is no fantastical element (unless you count the word balloons for Snowy the dog, which I interpret as poetic license). Second, this book was originally published in French, with an English translation coming years later; so Hugo voters in 1944 would have been very unlikely to even be aware of its existence, let alone have read it.

The first album to give Haddock some personality beyond “perpetually-inebriated and irascible captain”; also features a complex and fairly involving narrative, though Hergé’s growing habit of filling whole pages with small faces spouting enormous text balloons becomes pretty noticeable here.