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Summary: Perfect Storm is one scary book
Review: I nolonger wish to travel on the seas of the northeast. Not that I wanted to in tyhe first place. Junger has done an excellent job in describing that which defys description. Some say his book is too dipassionate. Some say that he gives us information on the people then does not develope it. That is okay with me. The dispassionate description is how the people who go to the sea to work would talk of the event. To dwell on the relationships further wouldbe to trivialize the drama not accentuate it. Good job Sebastian!
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Summary: An exceptional book
Review: The author captures the life and times of those who fish in the North Atlantic. Often in books of this type, the technicalities of the events overcome the human side, this is clearly not the case in the Perfect Storm. While the book contains a wealth of technical information, it also strikes a balance between technical information, including a riveting description of what it is like to drown, and the danger and boredom that must be felt by a man working 20 hours a day for a month at a time. A good quick read to view a world that most of us thought ended one hundred years ago.
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Summary: An intense and realistic narrative of life at sea.
Review: As a fishing vessel owner and one who has lost friends at sea, this book really brings it home and is hard to put down. For the non-fishing public, this book should help show life at sea and the real cost of fish to the people that harvest them.
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Summary: compelling, heartbreaking, informative, awesome in every way
Review: I don't believe that I have ever read a book which described a natural catastrophic disturbance in such fashion. The "objective warmth" of Junger is remarkable to the reader. To capture the total monstrosity of the storm and intertwine it with the lives of those impacted is a remarkably moving experience. This is an event and a book that I will never forget.
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Summary: Another Great Outdoor Book From An Outside Magazine Writer
Review: One of the best books I have ever read. Proves that non-fiction doesn't have to be dull. Exciting, informative, and captivating. Only thing that would make it better would be including photographs of the storm and its effects.
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Summary: Surf's Up!
Review: This was an amazing story, a wild ride, that grabs you and holds you from start to finish. I couldn't put this book down! Although there are parts with lots of technical detail on fishing, wave physics and the like (which may put some readers off), for me, this actually helped to understand and appreciate the complexity and danger of the setting. Some parts of the book have an almost "voyeuristic" feel to them -- describing what it feels like to (almost) drown, for example. After reading this excellent book, seeing "Titanic", and recently reading about surfers riding 50ft. waves in Mexico generated by El Nino, I have new respect for the sea!
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Summary: Interesting light read with numerous technical inaccuracies.
Review: "The Perfect Storm" was an interesting light read that became tedious because of what I felt were significant errors in technical accuracy. On my first run through the book I turned up remarkable technical confusion in descriptions of the helicopter missions. For example, Junger believes that prior to falling to earth a flamed-out helicopter's rotors cease to turn, then accelerate up to speed again during autorotation! This is nonsense! Helicopter rescue hoists are said by Junger to include "a shear pin" designed to fail at "600 lbs" cable tension. Not so. Such hoists typically are load rated to lift up to 600 lbs. and include internal slip devices to enable automatic cable payout at overloads of up to three times the rated capacity. No helicopter would be dragged down by rescue loadings as Junger states since helicopter hoists include pilot-actuated cable shearing devices to preclude such eventualities. Junger is fascinated by wave height, so much so that the same skippers on different pages of the story seem to experience huge wave size variations from 20 to 100 feet and struggle to handle the smallest to the largest. On and on it goes. The result is that one comes to mistrust any of the technical detail of the book. Perhaps I am nit-picking, but this book is advertised as fact yet we seem to be thoroughly misled page after page. Perhaps the book simply suffers from poor editorial review during its preparation. So go ahead and read the story but please keep in mind that it is weak in technical merit. Far more gripping sea accounts have been written by authors that lived the experience or that have done their homework. The well-researched non-fiction "Mutiny on the Bounty" trilogy comes to mind as well as the excellent fictional sea tales created by James Fenimore Cooper (more famous for his Leatherstocking Tales), based on his years at sea in the early 1800's.
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Summary: This book was stirringly accurate in its account.
Review: I am from the area about which this book was written and found myself incredibly moved the entire time I was reading it. I have recently bumped into a taxi driver who is a former Gloucester fisherman and was mentioned in the first chapter of the book. He found the book to be extremely accurate in its portrayal of the characters, all of whom were friends of his, as well as the life of a fisherman, which he has since given up. I found the writing style amazing as the descriptions of history and individual incidents were constantly compelling and never tedious.
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Summary: It was an enjoyable read.
Review: The early parts of this book dragged for me. While the people were interesting, I think Junger spent too much time on them. I was more captivated by the actual storm and rescue chapters.
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Summary: Goot learnin but....
Review: Learned alot about the fishermen of the Grand Banks but, the sentences where so chopped up, it was like driving in stop and go traffic. ie: The boat arrives at the dock. The men get on the boat. The men check the hatches. The skipper starts the engine. The guys wave goodbye. The girl crys......
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