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A review by kerryvaughan
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez
3.0
16. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
This was boring. Which feels terrible to say since it’s a true story. But in a way, if you’ve read one “man lost at sea alone” story, you’ve read them all.
This one is a series of newspaper articles GGM wrote of a man’s account of getting swept off a Navy destroyer with seven other men who died, floating in a raft for 10 days before washing up half dead in Colombia. The articles got published decades later as a book when GGM got famous. GGM basically says in the introduction that his name being fashionable was the reason it got republished. And yep, that tracks. I mean, it’s not BAD writing. It’s just nothing special. And the introduction’s mention of political intrigue after the story’s publication (the Navy got caught with its ass out) was way more interesting than the castaway story itself. Apologies to the man who actually lived the horror of it. #2025books
This was boring. Which feels terrible to say since it’s a true story. But in a way, if you’ve read one “man lost at sea alone” story, you’ve read them all.
This one is a series of newspaper articles GGM wrote of a man’s account of getting swept off a Navy destroyer with seven other men who died, floating in a raft for 10 days before washing up half dead in Colombia. The articles got published decades later as a book when GGM got famous. GGM basically says in the introduction that his name being fashionable was the reason it got republished. And yep, that tracks. I mean, it’s not BAD writing. It’s just nothing special. And the introduction’s mention of political intrigue after the story’s publication (the Navy got caught with its ass out) was way more interesting than the castaway story itself. Apologies to the man who actually lived the horror of it. #2025books