The humor may not be to everyone's taste, but you can read a nice long excerpt at the Vintage website to get a sense of Defoe's style. (I would have posted a small bit of it here, but we haven't received permission yet.)
You can read more about the author and listen to his NPR interview at the NPR website. (They also have the excerpt posted.)
There's a blog—Ham-stravaganza—devoted to the book
And, of course, some links to reviews . . .
If it's not clear enough by now, Defoe's Pirates is a hilarious read filled with some extremely clever writing. Not for nothing has Monty Python's Eric Idle blurbed it as "destined to become a classic of pirate comic fiction." You'll want to read this one.
Debra Hamel at The BiblioFiles
The tone is gently satiric and genuinely funny, tweaking storytelling conventions ("it was always raining in the London of themadays") that nevertheless make this a seaworthy little page-turner.
Ed Park at The Village Voice
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