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Summary: The Perfect Page-Turner!
Review: As someone who's always been interested in the main elements in this book (storms, oceanography, and yes - fishing!), I thoroughly loved this book. However, the author did more than just explain the technical aspects, writing about the true young men aboard the Andrea Gail and their families with compassion. Sebastian Junger, using primarily a journalistic style, manages to draw emotion, in addition to vividly sketching in the reader's mind the ominous scene out in open sea. After reading this book, you will never forget the Andrea Gail, nor her captain or crew, nor the Perfect Storm, itself.
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Summary: Terrific summer read.
Review: This book was a welcome respite from the 100-degree Arizona summer. Of course, an ice cube could've done the same thing, but the book lasted longer. It is though, a page-turner. Takes a weather event and turns it into an exciting narrative. My only disappointment--the book desperately needs better maps, charts, or pictures.
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Summary: A page turner wth a few obstacles
Review: Sebastian Junger takes the reader and enters him into the fishing industry of the Northeast taking him on the life ending journey of the Andrea Gail. The technical grammer is an obstacle to the intense action. When "the storm" arises, the pages turn without notice, but for those unfamiliar with nautical terms, reading can be upsetting. Excellent for those interested in sailing. The heart goes out to the survivors.
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Summary: A must for those in love with the sea
Review: The Perfect Storm, while tragic, is a compelling examination of the nature of the sea and those who go down to the sea. This book will be of interest to those who are interested in boats, fishing, weather or adventure. I urge you to read this vivid description of a storm on the lives of seamen and those who protect them.
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Summary: "Don't read this on a boat"
Review: I read this book while on my boat during a rain storm....scary. It was a great read I fell like I knew old Bobby. I didn't want the book to end. Junger's insite into the fishing industry was well researched and added to the authenticity of his chronical.
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Summary: A most powerful book about man against the sea
Review: I read this book in 2 days it was THAT good. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves to read true stories. This book captured my imagination the entire time and wouldn't let go. It was so powerful that I was reading it at work in my down time - I couldn't put it down. A must read for anyone who loves true stories, the sea, boats, etc. A most powerful book at its best. Sebastian Junger captures the crews last moments, the terrific storm, everything in such vivid detail. READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: A white knuckled thriller of life on the Atlantic
Review: Junger, careful in detail, lays out the possibilities surrounding the final fate of several fisherman on the Atlantic. During an un-announced and unforgiving nor'easter, the crew of the Andrea Gail fight to bring in the ship and themselves alive. I was rivited to the pages and enjoyed in depth explanations of fluid dynamics, boating techniques and a disturbing description of drowning. White knuckled, I turned the pages and tried to imagine the fear everyone felt that ill fated week in 1991. Junger brings to life in words a storm I barely remember, and I was living in NJ at the time. I will remember for a long time however, those who risk losing their lives to the unforgiving Atlantic, to bring in a harvest in high demand.
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Summary: An Awful Book (as in "awe" full)!
Review: Junger creates a taut ride in which we get to know the swordfishing fleet and the elements of the storm in equal measure. We are tossed back and forth from the sea of our growing involvement with the men and their fate, to the depths of meterological and nautical detail that are the proofs of Junger's journalistic research capabilities. Like the sailors struggling to reach the safety of home port, we ache to know what really happened to them. More than that, we want to resolve the resounding "why" that surrounds men's helpless attraction for dangerous pursuits, and the tragedies that so often are their outcomes. The result of Junger's fact-filled thrill ride is the reader's unsettling sense of knowing absolutely everything about the sinking -- and utterly nothing about it -- at the same time. An odyssey for both author and reader, and a masterful exploration of the perfect storm that pits man's intellectual grasp of nature's dangers against our irrestible impulse to conquer them.
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Summary: A truly thought provoking story of nature's power.
Review: Junger's technical, yet vivid description of nature's most awesome power is truly mind boggling. As a resident of southeast Louisiana I thought that I was more than familiar with hurricanes, but I could never really imagine the true power possessed by that magnificant phenomenon.By the way, Mr. Junger, how could any human being pass the standards to become a PJ. Good job
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Summary: It should have been a great book
Review: What a great idea for a book. The weather - we all know about it, most talk about it at least once a day, if not more. What a chance to take this often poorly understood topic and transform it to something really exciting. Imagine, a very low pressure system, so low it raises the ocean beneath it next to a very high pressure system of very cold air in Canada. Now imagine the forces at work between them. I can see masses of cold and warm air feuding for supremacy. Alas, what I found in the book were pages and ponderous pages of boozing people in pubs. Then more plodding pages of what the storm could have been like. In summary, a great idea, that needed just a little more work.
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