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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I got this book through the Early Reviewers program. At the time, I had never seen the Deadliest Catch, so had no clue who these guys were. I was just interested in Alaska and being a Great Lakes girl, boats interested me. I really enjoyed the book. It was a very readable and entertaining. There were a lot of Wow! moments. When I got cable, I tuned into the show and found that the voice in the book was very authentic. (  )bookwranglr | Jul 9, 2009 |   As a fan of "The Deadliest Catch" on Discovery, I was excited to score this book. But it didn't ring as true to me as the show does, and while the adventures don't necessarily disappoint, it just didn't feel as vivid to me. It's an all right read, and easy to get through. But the show is much better. (  )fictiontheory | Jul 8, 2009 | The most surprising thing that I got out of reading this book was how, through the grace of God or any number of pagan deities, did these men get out of childhood alive. Taping shotgun shells to BB guns? Plinking .22's at each other to hear the whistle? Showing up at a girlfriend's parents' house to pick her up on prom night driving a Winnebago? Any one of those things would - should - get you shot. Neither of the brothers nor the ghostwriter have the chops to turn the descriptions of the hard domestic life of the fishermen into real poetry, and the book does function as an advertisement for the television show. On the whole, it was a decent book for what it aims at, although I think it would have been an amazing magazine feature piece. (  )dnorum | Jun 18, 2009 | Being a fan of the "Deadliest Catch" TV show, I expected to really enjoy this book. I was disappointed. As with most books of this type, the "celebrity" authors (the two Captains Hillstrand, who are featured in the TV reality series "Deadliest Catch") worked with a professional writer in the creation of this book. In the best books of this type, the "pro" keeps his or her own personality in low profile, and you can almost HEAR, in your mind, the subjects of the book saying their piece in their own voices. Unfortunately, I didn't feel this was the case here, especially in the sections featuring Jonathan. The CONTENT of the stories fit my expectations based on what I'd seen of the Hillstrands on TV. My problem was with the stilted prose used in the telling of the stories. Once in a while Jonathan's voice came through lound and clear, but I could not imagine him saying 90 percent of what was written in "his" first-person account, at least not in the way that it was written. It was just too flowery and formal, and these guys, especially Jonathan, are not flowery, formal kinds of guys. It was a little less of an issue for me in Andy's sections, perhaps because he comes across as a little more well-spoken than his brother on TV. I found this so distracting that it was difficult to really enjoy what might have otherwise been a very interesting account of life lived on the edge in a very perilous profession. It might have been helpful if their pro co-author had focused more on helping them better organize the stories they were telling into a more unified, easier-to-follow, book. ( )tymfos | Jun 11, 2009 | 1  I got this as an early review copy, and was interested to really get into the nitty gritty of crabbing in Alaska. However, I was greeted almost immediately by pastoral elegiac prose about the the life of a rough and tumble crab fisherman and its glories. The disbelief engendered by the purple prose was augmented by descriptions of a lifestyle that sound more ripped from a B-movie western than a nonfiction book. I may give this book another shot in the future, but the taste it left in my mouth after the first couple of pages makes me hope that this one got another couple of rounds of editing before publication. (  )andrewa121 | Mar 5, 2009 | 0.028 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345503724, Hardcover)“Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware,” goes the chorus of an old sailors’ sing-along that celebrates the allure and danger of the seafaring life. But make no mistake–there truly is much to beware for those who are drawn to risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon the waves. And perhaps none take more chances than the men and women who brave the tempestuous, bountiful waters of the Bering Sea. Season after season, they bond and battle with its icy depths, determined to reap yet one more rewarding harvest while eluding the ever-present threat of sudden, certain death. And among the rapidly diminishing ranks of these die-hard salts, brothers Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand have forged a reputation as fierce masters of their treacherous, enthralling trade. If you’ve watched their exploits on TV’s Deadliest Catch, you’ve only scratched the surface. To read Time Bandit is to step into their skins, smell the sea air, feel the frigid wind, and know with all your senses the exhilarating, and terrifying life on the edge.Natives of tiny, fishing hamlet, Homer, Alaska; sons of a hard-bitten, highly successful fisherman; and born with brine in their blood, the Hillstrand boys couldn’t imagine a life without a swaying deck underfoot and a harvest of mighty Alaskan king crabs waiting to be pulled from the ocean floor. In pursuit of their daily catch, the brothers brave ice floes and heaving waves 60 feet high, the perils of 1000-lb steel traps thrown about by the punishing wind, and the constant menace of the open, hungry water. Even the brothers’ downtime on land–where the deadly realities of the unforgiving sea are never far from their minds–is lived as if borrowed: fast and hard, haunted by the knowledge that the next season at sea could end asleep in the deep. Here is the Hillstrands’ own heartfelt hymn to the brutally hard, gloriously independent, and mysteriously soul-satisfying life that has earned them their daily bread and defined their existence. By turns raucous and reflective, exhilarating and anguished, enthralling, suspenseful, and wise, Time Bandit chronicles a larger-than-life love affair as old as civilization itself–a love affair between striving, willful man and inscrutable, enduring nature. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:10 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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