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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
by: Sebastian Junger |
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 904 EAN: 9780061013515 Edition: Other Printing ISBN: 006101351X Label: HarperTorch Manufacturer: HarperTorch Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: July 01, 1998 Publisher: HarperTorch Release Date: June 03, 1998 Studio: HarperTorch |
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  - Adventure and devestationOctober 1991 produced one of the most devastating storms to hit the North Atlantic. Follow the crew of the Andrea Gail as it struggles for survival in tumultuous seas and learn how the rescue attempts of other ships caught in the Perfect Storm went horribly wrong. Rating: - Mesmerizing book -- awesome story of some brave men who face the seas daily, some to their peril.The book was fantastic -- wonderful work -- my son and I thoroughly enjoyed this moving, sad and inspiring true story. Sebastian Junger did the crew justice. Rating:  - less than I expectedI kept waiting for the real good part of the book, but then I was at the last page and somewhat surprised. There are no whopping thrill rides, but you do get a picture that is pretty easy to envision (credit to the writer). I was disappointed and wouldn't recommend the book in it's entirety. I did enjoy learning a brief bit about the pararescuers and their training. that was the best part of the book; the brief section which describes the storm, how it formed, and the rescuers, and how they were formed. The rest was just extra pages that made it a complete story. Rating: - beautiful competent storytellingI relish the style of competent, detailed, unembellished storytelling that Junger does in this work. Precise factual descriptions of the circumstances, facts, and action of the fishing boat caught in a gale bring this to concrete life in a way that makes a vision more palpably real than the well known film on the same topic. I liked the film in its own right but this book is something different, a wholly different work that stands in the first rank of books of this type. I recommend it strongly to those with any interest in nautical subjects of any kind. Rating:  - Good Story, Horrible FormattingI just started reading this, and it is a good story so far. However, the Kindle formatting is atrocious and that is what this rating is about. No quote marks around dialogue? Seriously? Paragraphs in the wrong places? Really? This is a real disappointment and difficult to read as a result. Hopefully as I read it the formatting will improve, but I looked ahead a bit and it does not look promising. |
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