The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against The Sea

Title of the Book: The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against The Sea
    Author: Sebastian Junger
    Number of Pages:225  Rating: ☆☆☆

 Review: Andrew Stevens
Ms. Long
English 12

The Perfect Storm Book Review
The Perfect Storm, man, what a book. The Perfect Storm is a book about a group of men who live in a small town next to the sea. It starts out explaining the people, and their backgrounds. Their jobs are to go out fishing for a couple months, and whoever comes back with the most fish gets the most money. After the book explains the backgrounds, the group of men go back out to try and catch more fish to earn more money. Then, unexpectedly, a storm appears and the group of men have to battle it out with storm to try and live and return back to the shore safely.
The author in this book has a very “complicated” writing style. The fishing and jargon terms are somewhat hard to understand and it makes the book a little challenging to read. The beginning of the book is boring, but if you stay with it and continue reading, i’m sure it will be a little more enjoyable. The most memorable moment from this book for me is when the crew was fighting the storm. I would also recommend watching the movie because it gave me more of an understanding of what was actually happening.
I would recommend this book as long as you are good at following along and you understand what is happening. You definitely have to pay attention to detail and understand what the author is trying to tell you. This book was unique for me just because of the sole fact that it is non-fiction. I’m more into the fiction books so I did find this book kind of boring in the beginning.

Comments

  1. AnonymousApril 15, 2018 at 6:48 PM

    I'm surprised this story is nonfiction. The base of the story does sound interesting though. Thank you for your honesty on the challenges you faced while reading this book.

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  2. AnonymousApril 15, 2018 at 7:08 PM

    I checked out this book with intentions of reading it for this unit, but after I read a little bit of it, I just wasn't interested. I tried really hard to get into it for a while, but it wasn't happening for me. I'm glad that I made the decision to switch to a backpacking book that I connected a lot more with. Do you think that I would've ever gotten into the book had I continued reading? From reading your review, I think maybe it would take a person who's very familiar with sea terms and life to really understand and connect with it.

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