Title: Meandering and Overwritten
Review: I wish I could give this book a better recommendation. It seemed like it would be a classic end-of-the-world epic like On The Beach. The problem is it's about 250 pages too long. There just isn't that much happening. They go here. They go there. At times, The Last Ship is a great character study. Some of the scenes are powerful and frightening. In other places there is page after page after page after page of dense, overwritten narrative. Eventually I began to scan through these blocks of droning text just to see what happened in the end.Brinkley also has a strange grasp of syntax. His writing can be confusing as heck. Often his sentences, like clouds, when I was boy, back East, where my parents owned our first home, which was a two story Victorian, are bent inside out with bewildering asides or backasswards placement of his nouns. A dozen times, I had to stop and trace my way through again just to understand what he was talking about.Two and a half stars.
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