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Title: Great Maiden Voyage
Review: At first, I was a little skeptical about the plotline: a farmer eating a plane that crashed in his field. Ben Sherwood, though, not only made this plot work, he made it soar. "The Man Who Ate the 747" is one of the most romantic, funniest, wittiest books that I've read in quite some time. Sherwood infuses more honest romance into an egg tossing scene than most writers can do wth a bedroom filled with candles. The writer also has a great command not only of language but of voice and an enviable eye for detail. Unless I miss my guess, we are seeing the first effort here from a major talent who will one day take his place among John Irving and Christopher Buckley as writers who have not only mastered the slightly offbeat plots but people them with larger than life characters that make them downright magical.
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