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Summary: suspenseful, exiting, informative and tragic
Review: I purchased this book after returning from a trip to Nova Scotia and seeing the fleets of fishing boats loaded with unrecognizable equipment.(at least to me) This book gave me an incredible sense of what fishermen go through on an almost daily basis. The author concisely explains the process of fishing and fills in some detail of the lives of the men involved, while slowly building to the tragic events to follow. I will never eat another piece of fish, without thinking about this particular story and about the fishermen who caught it.
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Summary: You'll feel the boat rocking and the spray on your face!
Review: What a story!! This book left my palms and the soles of my feet sweaty. If you crave excitement and edge of your seat suspense - with a little thought provoking information in it - then this is the book for you.You only get a brief look at the men on the Andrea Gail before you are plunged headfirst into the wild, storm-driven Atlantic Ocean. Junger's combination of storytelling and factual information provide hours of exciting reading. The chapters which discuss the formation of storms and the physics of wave formation were the most stimulating portions of the book. They made you think while they intertwined the fate of the crew of the Andrea Gail. What an experience!
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Summary: Salty-seaspray tasting reality
Review: For all my years growing up in New England (Point Judith, R.I.) the guys I knew that worked on these boats were God-like in their presence to repeatedly challenge the sea and demon-like in their whirlwind partying-drinking-fighting once back on terrafirma. This book describes my friends to a tee... the horrific storm we experienced onshore could not have possibly compared to the tempest that existed out 1200 miles in an environment wide open to the raw power of Mother Nature. For those of us that read this book, our appreciation of these characters that dutifully go to sea, harvest the finest food on the planet and pay dearly with their lives in periodic instances such as this will never be sufficient. Wake up you landlubbers, these are the last of the truly wild men of earth!
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Summary: Intense, lip biting, bad dreams, excellent reading!!!
Review: I missed my bus stop on the way home from work. My wife and two-year old son were calling me to no avail. I read it in 2 days!!
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Summary: A Must Read!
Review: Wow! This book will take you for a ride. You'll never look at the sea the same way again.
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Summary: Truly incredible book--Mother Nature at her worst!!
Review: Other people I knew had recommended this book to me. The book started out kinda slow. I'll admit that I put it down 2x before I finally got into it. But once you get past the first 40 pages of background...IT TAKES OFF!! It grabs you and it doesn't let you go. You can't believe what went on in that storm...its the stuff of horror stories, but it was all true!! It lodged a lump in my throat until I finished the book.
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Summary: Journalistic techniques are OK, but too many errors.
Review: Junger uses the present voice practically throughout the book, a standard journalistic technique that lends immediacy to actions that occurred in the past. The result is a fast-paced book in the micro sense, but he takes too long to get into the action. The construction of the book is difficult to figure out...is the subject the storm? the people on the Andrea Gail? everybody who was out there? My disappointment is much greater, however, in the lack of copyediting. Junger, at least three times, says that the Andrea Gail "steams," when she is diesel-powered; and on page 205 of the hard-cover edition are five whopping errors that anybody who lives in the Boston area should have caught: the Pilgrim Nuclear Plant is in Plymouth, MA (or did he mean the Seabrook Nuclear Plant in New Hampshire?); it is "Hough's," not "Haugh's" Neck, part of Quincy; the Isles of Shoals are off New Hampshire, not Maine; it's "Boone Island," not "Bo! one's," and the town in Massachusetts is "Scituate," not "Situate." Wow! All this on one page! For me, errors like this cast suspicion on the accuracy of everything else in the book. But it's still well worth reading.
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Summary: Button down the hatches, we're going for a ride
Review: All the adulation this book has gotten certianly is deserving. Anyone with a white collar day job will probably question their integrity and manhood after reading about the abject terror that those who work on the sea must face. I found the ditched helicopter and subsequent rescue attempt the most riviting part of the book. Simply terrifying.
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Summary: A worthwhile read.
Review: If you want to learn about commercial swordfishing, weather phenomena, and the body mechanics of drowning, then this is the book for you. I found this book incredibly informative as well as a good read. You get an idea as to what it must have been like to face the terrifying power of nature.
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Summary: My ultimate favorite book-EVER!
Review: Growing up in New England, I know a great deal about the sea, so when I picked up this book, I expected a review of what I knew. I was wrong. The first part of the book got me to know these men and their dangerous trade. While the second part just gripped me as some of the best writing I've ever read. This book, as well as others in its genre, show us that mother nature reigns supreme over all of man's technology. A modern classic which I think will stand the test of time.
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