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Summary: Adventures With a Literary Communicator
Review: Buckley relishes living. His life is one of multi-tasking. While experiencing transAtlantic adventures, he manages his time in such a way that he responds to letters from readers on an individual basis. He even describes his method of being able to give such personal responses to such a large number of writers. As a communicator/traveler/adventurer, Buckley has something to teach us all. "Passive" is about the only word not found in his vocabulary.Visually the photography of Christopher Little shows you what Buckley describes with words. A two member TV crew was putting together a documentary on the trip, but I don't know if that project was finalized. Buckley has some things to say about video ethics in his discussion of that project, specifically about a balance between what staging is acceptable and what goes over the line. Most of the book is captivating, in that, "you're there" with Buckley and his crew members on the journey. However, a couple of chapters are filler. Not even Buckley with his talented gift of communication could conceal that fact. He gets tedious in describing certain maritime procedures (yawn). Otherwise, the time spent with this book is pretty well invested. On that note, he has a small section taking about people asking him as an editor to read their books, wherein he mentions that it takes anywhere from 6-16 hours to complete a book, depending on one's reading speed and the length of the work.
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