Letters from the Lost Soul: A Five Year Voyage of Discovery and Adventure

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Summary: Letters From The Lost Soul
Review: A very enjoyable read. Don't expect to learn how to sail heavy weather of trim your sails. This is simply a realistic look at cruising from someone who has been there. He is funny and irreverent. If you wear a blue blazer and speak without moving your lips, this book is not for you. Bitchin's book is an amusing look at a sport that far too many take far too seriously.

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Summary: Letters From The Lost Soul
Review: A very enjoyable read. Don't expect to learn how to sail heavy weather of trim your sails. This is simply a realistic look at cruising from someone who has been there. He is funny and irreverent. If you wear a blue blazer and speak without moving your lips, this book is not for you. Bitchin's book is an amusing look at a sport that far too many take far too seriously.

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Summary: With a vivid eye for detail
Review: Any interested in sailing and travel stories will find this engrossing, recounting the author's five years of adventures sailing some 45,000 miles to beautiful world spots. Few actually sail the world: the author and his wife observe crew, peoples and places with a vivid eye for detail.

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Summary: Terrible, simply terrible...
Review: I can't believe I bothered to finish this book. But havingalready shelled out [the money], I felt compelled to see it through to the bitter end. The author's writing style and vocabulary are abysmal. He describes every anchorage with nearly the same verbage - "...one of the prettiest stops we'd made yet. The lagoon is a brilliant blue/green with soft white sand beaches...". The author's analogies and similies sound like second grade poetry. Regardless of why you read books on sailing and cruising, do yourself a favor - skip this one. Instead, go to the library and check out one of Buckley's sailing journals or the like. You'll be glad you did...

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Summary: Terrible, simply terrible...
Review: I can't believe I bothered to finish this book. But havingalready shelled out [the money], I felt compelled to see it through to the bitter end. The author's writing style and vocabulary are abysmal. He describes every anchorage with nearly the same verbage - "...one of the prettiest stops we'd made yet. The lagoon is a brilliant blue/green with soft white sand beaches...". The author's analogies and similies sound like second grade poetry. Regardless of why you read books on sailing and cruising, do yourself a favor - skip this one. Instead, go to the library and check out one of Buckley's sailing journals or the like. You'll be glad you did...

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Summary: Very Enjoyable Read...
Review: If you are a cruiser whether armchair or out on the water this is an excellent book. Bob's writing style is sometimes irreverent and sometimes philosophical but always enjoyable. So, if you've ever dreamed of dropping everything and sailing off into the sunset.... this is the book for you.

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Summary: tomjordan
Review: Should have stayed on the harley, not my kind of thought patterns connected to sailing stories, brash descriptions, had I not been to several of his locations I would have had a tough time visualizing to any degree of accuracy his surroudings. It seem the author is more inclined to get drunk and get layed than anything else with the execption of his obsession with his own size and the fact he is covered with tatoo's. I was able to stick it out and complete the book hoping it would get better but not unlike his generator, it never got better........I give it two stars, one for his will to go, and the other for having to much to say about so little.