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Title: Doldrums
Review: Sorry to say this, I was looking forward to a wonderful read. Instead I found a badly formed narrative, loose ends, bad writing, a dire lack of wit and style. This guy can make any place look boring and dumpy. He doesn't give any insight into Cook or the South Pacific and ultimately the book reads like an early chronicle. Also Horowitz needs to learn what a reader wants to see focused on. We don't need a three page diary of his friend's drinking spree. His original week on a ship from Seattle is never brought up again, nor is what he learned applicable (in his mind it seems) to the either the other boat trips he took or the ship captained by Cook. If he had a rollicking story we might forgive him (as we do Grisham) but instead this is dull plodding, a sea of doldrums. Had he submitted this to New Yorker, it would have been rejected, and if not rejected edited considerably. It needs it. I had to tap into a Cookian mania for finishing a project just to get through it. Don't bother.
