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Title: Okay read, but with little insight.
Review: I picked up this book hoping to get a different view of my favorite TV show -- in fact, that only TV show I watched for a great while). However, I was disappointed to find that Burnett was -- admittedly, somewhat predictably -- more interested in the trials and tribulations of the crew than in the developing relationships of the characters. The castaways are given a single descriptor that serves them throughout the entire book (Rudy: grump. Susan: redneck. Richard: gay.), and are hardly developed. Where on the TV show the characters were interesting and three-dimensional, on the page they are flat and boring. The book is littered with anecdotes from crew life, that, while interesting, hardly develop the story of the castaways. Perhaps the book would be a bit more enlightening with more emphasis on the character relationships; after all, this is supposed to be a book about the SURVIVORS. Isn't it?
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