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Title: An unfortunate yawner
Review: When I heard the author discuss this book on Late Night with Tom Snyder, I immediately jumped out of bed and ordered it from Amazon. I wish I hadn't. This was a journalist who sailed around the world on a cargo ship. Actually, it was a converted Russian ice-breaker. The journey is evidently one of introspection, and he shouldn't have bothered with the small amount of material he had to examine. He whines and complains and snivels until you wish he had fallen overboard. Too damn little about the ship and too damn much about himself. That Jaynes chose to read War and Peace on his journey was ironic. When I slugged through Tolstoy, my only goal for the last third of the tome was just to finish it and get it over with. I can say the same thing about the last third of Come Hell on High Water. There were some great moments, mostly when Jaynes discusses his career as a journalist. Some of those anecdotes were great. Jaynes should write that book.
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