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Title: No Perfect Storm - Not Compelling or Well Written
Review: Just finished Fire by Sebastian Junger. Thumbsdown. I was hoping it would be as compelling as a Perfect Storm, but the book is deceptively titled. It should be:Fire and Other Short Essays by Sebastian Junger as there's only 2 stories in the whole book about fire, the rest are about badly war torn countries.So there's no real cohesive story in the book like a Perfect Storm, and very few of the stories are a good read.The worst part of the book is how Junger puts the former head of the Afghan Northern Alliance on a pedistool, in several spots he makes reference to the fact that he was widely accused of atrocities, but then dismisses it casually. It's a clear case of a reporter liking his subject too much to be objective. All in all a major disappointment!
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