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Title: Flat and flawed
Review: Flat characterizations, confusing transitions, and over dramatizing in some scenes -- are PJs really supermen? Is Ray Leonard really that dumb and selfish? Whatever happened to the Sartori did it eventually sink? Is the author claiming, and then justifying, the Coast Guard's turning off the Andrea Gale's EPIRB? This is a serious charge. Some of the history and technique of commercial fishing sounds accurate, as does the drowning description, but this is fiction so how much can any of the seemingly factual stuff be relied on? Mr. Junger should have signed on as a fishing boat crew member first then he might have been able to write about something he knows. Not worth the money.
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