Title of the Book: The Perfect Storm Review
Author: Sebastian Junger
Number of Pages: 231
Rating: ☆☆☆
Review:

The Perfect Storm is one of the most well known piece of work nonfiction, and rightfully so. It is the story of how the Andrea Gail, faces the storm that would ultimately be her demise. The Andrea Gail is a commercial fishing boat that spent her time of the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The captain Billy Tyne, embarked on a redemption trip after he returned back to port with a minimal and less than ideal haul from their first trip. He and his crew decide to head back out to sea in order to try and catch a larger and more bountiful haul. As the crew, gets out to sea, a storm of a lifetime begins to brew. This storm is the reason that the Andrea Gail was deemed lost at sea in 1991. The Perfect Storm is Sebastian Junger's, explanation of what the final moments of the Andrea Gail might have been like.

What makes this book unique is all of the jagon in the book and information that the reader learns as they progress through the book. There are pages upon pages of fishing information as well as seamen stories, that Junger has collected and compiled. This ties into how Junger’s writing is developed and the language that is used. He not only has an informative style, but he flares his writing with “fisherman's” language, which helps the reader better focus and become integrated into the story.

I personally did not enjoy this book, but I would still recommend it to others. The Perfect Storm is well written and could be extremely interesting to the right person. Since I greatly enjoy fiction, this non fiction piece did not exactly captivate me, but there were a few parts that got my attention. The first is when Junger writes “...people get premonitions all the time. The trick is knowing when to listen to them.” (pg31). The second is near the end of the book a man by the name of Chris Cotter talks about how he dealt with the disappearance of the Andrea Gail and what it must have looked like (pg 212). He has the most heartbreaking quotes and explanation of what he thought that I have read to date, which really grabbed my attention.

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  1. AnonymousApril 17, 2018 at 10:50 AM

    I think you did a great job summarizing the book but not giving too much away, I also liked how you explained why you did not like it and why someone else would.

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