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Title: A good story, told very, very badly
Review: William Butler tells a good story - using some of the worst writing I've ever seen. The book is full of cliches ("tears were flowing like the Amazon"; "my love, the love of my life was sinking"), affected metaphors ("a caravan of watery mountains"; and annoying questions ("will we live?"; "will we be found?"; "will the raft sink?"). Like everything else, the dialogue is forced, with nothing colloquial about it. ("And here I am, in a miserable miniature raft where I'm certainly going to die with an equally miserable monster.") Butler and the publishing company should have had the book edited by someone who can actually write. I was stuck on a 5-hour airplane flight with nothing to read but 66 Days Adrift, but not even that helped me get over the horrendous writing. After reading the first 75 pages, I've had enough. Don't expect this one to make it to Hollywood.
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