Tittle of book: The Perfect Storm
written by: Sebastian Junger:
# of pages 233:
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
Review:
The perfect storm is a book about a sailor named Sebastian Junger that ventures out on a boat named "The Andrea Gail". Junger tells us about his sword fisherman's life and his ventures off the coast of Newfoundland. Junger gets into a romance story and experiences storms out at sea. We learn much seaman vocabulary like to make the "water smoke" and learn about a sea man's life style. The Los Angeles Times heralds this book as "superb" and says there is nothing imaginary about it. The characters are not afraid to use language we would all get into trouble if we spoke the words in front of an English teacher. It is all "terrifyingly awesome and real". The Entertainment Weekly says it is "Ferociously dramatic and vividly written". It is very much so dramatic and written with passion.
What does "water smoke" mean? All of the different sea vocabulary sounds like it could be cool. I also like how you incorporated reviews from other outlets into your review.
ReplyDeleteThis seems like an interesting book to read. Might have to read it in the future. It sounds a little hard to read if you were to not know those words.
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