content: This book was so boring it was unmetionable. I bought this book because everyone said it was a great "american" classic. The first half of the book was great, the second half you could probably throw away.I don't understand why everyone else hails it as a classic, but this book is the most droll, boring, and repetitive book I have ever read in my entire life.If for whatever reason, you wish to find out exactly how a sailor lived, then go ahead, its a great book. But if think that reading 500+ pages about some guys life on the water that entails, eating, sleeping, and taking a sail up and down....then perhaps you would also like to see PAINT DRY!