I'm not sure who the target audience of this book was, but I think the writer beautifully described life onboard a ship. I have been on 3 deployments, and one thing I've always thought was that somethings never change. The first few chapters describe the life of people onboard. The descriptions are eloquently romantic but also give no doubt about the arduous work and in the 1600s, mire survival. Even better is that the verbal...
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DNF. Made it to chapter 13.. Not as much a "tale" as it is a book report. One in which the author clearly had a word count to reach. Chapters 1-3, overall unimportant and what was possibly relevant could have been condensed down to a page. Obviously the author did his research, and you can feel it. Constantly pulling quotes from book after book that made it hard to get in any sort of flow for the "tale". Didn't care at...
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As far as historical non fictional narratives go, The Wager was decent. Grann does a very good job at getting the reader engaged in the first few chapters, meanwhile in the back of your mind, you know what direction the book is going-especially as a book about a shipwreck. One could predict-without any prior knowledge of the story- how the majority of the story would play out, and unfortunately, that is what hurt the book...
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