Title: Entertaining in a Scattershot Enough Manner
Product review: Richard Winer's Ghost Ships is subtitled "True Stories of Nautical Nightmares, Hauntings, and Disasters" and that is appropriate enough (although "true" may be stretching things somewhat) as the book is full of a variety of stories, only a very few which can properly be called "ghost ships". It is still fun and slightly creepy, though, and the author does avoid the more famous sea tales, such as the Mary Celeste, and sticks to stories the readers is less likely to have heard. Taken with a often large grain of salt, the tales ring true within the context of this book. The author does a good job setting the scene and telling the story, although so often ending the short narratives with a question can, at times, get a little grating.
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