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Title: Maybe it's a guy thing...
Review: ...but every man I know who read this book loved it, and every woman I know hated it! Sexist opening aside, "The Perfect Storm" started fairly strong and then lost me about half-way through. I pressed on, hoping for the payoff other readers had promised. I was disappointed. The writing is passable but not stellar. The character development is folksy and familiar (having lived on Cape Ann) at the start. Then the story gets bogged down in technical, nautical details about storms, drowning and the rescue. I found it frustrating and strangely boring, as I did watching "Titanic." In this case, everybody drowns. FYI: The movie version of "Storm" is even worse than the book.
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