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!

I never did get around to reading Junger. I guess I'll give him a pass now.

Have you read Jon Krakauer's INTO THIN AIR? Oustanding book. It actually had me nervous while reading it.

Yes I loved Into Thin Air as well as his book Into the Wild, both fantastic books

Geoff,

If you liked "The Perfect Storm" Try reading either of the books by Linda Greenlaw. She was the captian of the Andrea Gail's sister ship, the "Hannah Boden". She wrote a book about her swordfishing days called "The Hungry Ocean". The other one is called "The Lobster Chronicles".

She's a pretty decent writer and it carries on with some of the themes from "Perfect Ocean".

-doc

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check her books out.

- G

Hey I did read 'The Hungry Ocean', nice read. A good story about something that wasn't a big disaster (ie just a nice slice of life).

Thanks again for the recomendation

Glad you liked it.

-doc