Perfect Storm

The Excitement of “The Perfect Storm”
This book is a somewhat interesting book if the reader likes the basic facts about the subject. In “The Perfect Storm”, Junger gives a lot of interesting detail about fishing yet there are a lot of useless facts that just don’t keep the reader interested.
The only few things that Junger writes about that makes one wonder what will happen is when they are back ashore and they are all at the Crow’s Nest getting drunk. It makes the reader want to keep reading only to find out how they will turn out or what they might do especially spending at least $2000 in a two-week period on beer and liquor. Junger wrote, “Budweiser costs a dollar seventy-five, but as often as not there’s a fisherman just in from a trip who’s buying for the whole house. Money flows through a fisherman like water through a fishing net: one regular ran up a $4,000 tab in a week” (6). It is also kind of amazing about how much food the fishermen have to buy to kee...