Taran

Taran's Book Review


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//The Perfect Storm// by Sebastian Junger. In October 1991, a group of six sailors were going to set sail along the Atlantic Ocean in the Andrea Gail. Each fishermen was expected to earn at least 5 thousand dollars depending on how much fish they caught. They set sail to catch fish to earn money for a living and for their family. Each time they go, it takes a whole 30 days to go out, fish then come back and they leave their family behind and hoping they will make it back safely. The days out in the sea went very well the first couple of weeks. They caught over 40,000 fish and that was enough to make the money they needed. Then, a few things went wrong. A huge storm was coming and it wasnt just a storm,...it was a perfect storm. There was a combination of factors that were raging the storm. Waves soaring ten stories high and winds up to 120 miles an hour. The storm covered to inconceivable levels that very few people have ever witnessed anything like that.

Billy Tyne, the main captain of the ship the Andrea Gail, was born and raised in Gloucester. When his friend Charlie Reed quit as the captain of the Andrea Gail, Billy took over the owner for the Andrea Gail. Bobby Shatford and Albert Pierre are the only two on the ship with sweethearts. They spend the long last days before the voyage with long good-byes knowing they were going to be gone for at least 30 days. The very start of this book may seem very boring but just keep you mind on it and you can almost feel what is happening. Sometimes, you may not even be able to put this book down once you get into it.

This book goes by really slow sometimes if you do not understand what you are reading or what is happening. Other then that it goes by really quickly because you enjoy this book. Once this wonderful book is started, it must be completed because it is very thrilling and amazing. Sometimes you can just feel what is happening and when you finally stop reading it you will wonder what is going to happened in the next chapter or what is going to happened the next time you read it.

The last week of October is a notoriously dangerous time for storms were they are traveling, the Banks. The Banks are a great place for thriving marine life, but is also a noted place for huge hurricanes and thunderstorms. Later on during this week, the weather service issued that a huge storm system is building up around there. Many meteorologists are watching this storm with amazement. They believe that this just might be "the perfect storm," a storm that happens only maybe once every hundred or so years. Imagining this storm is just amazing to me. This book is so detail oriented that you can picture the waves and the wind speeds racing around you. Everyone is warning the captain as the storm is approaching them. You can feel the tension inside. The captain decides that "We will be safe" and decides to head back home. The ships ice machine is not working correctly and all of their fish may spoil if they do not make it home. Will they make it?

This book is filled with exciting events and is very suspenseful. If you really enjoy reading and spend alot of time reading then this is a really good book for you. It has tons of detail about not jsut fishing but about different places in the world and about six crewmen trying to earn a living at sea when things just go wrong. This book is very sad in the end because people at shore find things with AG and ERIB on them which was some of the belongings to the Andrea Gail. People that find it just know what happened to all their loved ones and will just remember the last days that they spent with them before they all left for the long-lasting 30 days out at sea. If you do not like sad endings or sad events in a book then this probably isnt the best book for you. The Perfect Storm is exciting yet very sad in parts. This book gets a thumbs up and will be unforgotten.