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A review by the_dog_standard
The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl
adventurous
informative
slow-paced
2.0
I think my main issue with this book is that I wasn't in the mood to read it but it was a book club book so I had to. That being said I could not give it more then 3 stars at most.
This book seems confused as to what it wanted to be, a recount of events (this would require it to be in chronological order) or a pure factual read (this would require all the similar information to be in blocks of facts essentially). This book was a weird combination of the two that just sent it didn't flow well.
There was a couple of random pages in the middle randomly talking about the Easter islands because they came slightly close to them (?).
Why when we were 3 months into the journey did we only just find out that the parrot died 2 months into the journey. It was at a similar time that they revealed that they had been in near constant contact with civilisation through radio communication when there was zero hint of these previously.
And don't get me started on how many times the author described the same fish or the different (or not so different) ways they would catch fish only to realise they had too many fish and the blood was attracting sharks so they would throw them back over board. And the dolphins that aren't dolphins but are dorada but sometimes they are dolphins.
The whole book was a great faff and probably could of and should of been 100 pages shorter.
I was told by the person the chosen the book that it was a great adventure story...all I'm saying is it much have got lost at see somewhere because apart from a couple of interesting scenes in the storms or when one of the them fell off the raft I missed the adventure bit. For me them trying to make the raft, find the wood and the right political backing was more interesting and that was only the first 79 pages!
This book seems confused as to what it wanted to be, a recount of events (this would require it to be in chronological order) or a pure factual read (this would require all the similar information to be in blocks of facts essentially). This book was a weird combination of the two that just sent it didn't flow well.
There was a couple of random pages in the middle randomly talking about the Easter islands because they came slightly close to them (?).
Why when we were 3 months into the journey did we only just find out that the parrot died 2 months into the journey. It was at a similar time that they revealed that they had been in near constant contact with civilisation through radio communication when there was zero hint of these previously.
And don't get me started on how many times the author described the same fish or the different (or not so different) ways they would catch fish only to realise they had too many fish and the blood was attracting sharks so they would throw them back over board. And the dolphins that aren't dolphins but are dorada but sometimes they are dolphins.
The whole book was a great faff and probably could of and should of been 100 pages shorter.
I was told by the person the chosen the book that it was a great adventure story...all I'm saying is it much have got lost at see somewhere because apart from a couple of interesting scenes in the storms or when one of the them fell off the raft I missed the adventure bit. For me them trying to make the raft, find the wood and the right political backing was more interesting and that was only the first 79 pages!