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Title: Perfect Waste of Time
Review: I wanted to read the book before I watched the movie. I'm a staunch believer that books are always better than their movie counterparts. For this particular book, I hope this is not the case.I was looking for an human interest story, what I got was a mariner's manual. Of the approximate 290 pages of the book, perhaps 150 of the pages actually had something to do with the Andrea Gail and her seamen. The other 140 pages were dedicated to explaining different aspects of swordfishing, tunafishing, history of Gloucester, history of the New England fishing industry, and nuclear testing, above all things.I do respect the amount of research Mr. Junger has put into his book, but one must wonder if he just lumped together a bunch of magazine articles and tried to bind them together, rather than telling a real story, with some sort of character development. It felt like I was reading a documentary. Let's hope the movie based on the book doesn't become a documentary as well.
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