Title: plodding prose undermines interesting content
Product review: I'm surprised by the glowing reviews--I found the author's voice so flat and her writing so bland that I wasn't a bit moved by her various struggles on the boat or interested in the detail and insights into the fishing process. And I never felt especially sympathetic to her: I guess we were supposed to assume that her sick crewmember was fine after all--her relative lack of concern was off-putting I thought. There are so many good novels in print on fishing and fisherman--I would rather spend my time with those than with this true story. Next time she should get a ghostwriter.
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