Sunday, March 06, 2005

Snark: In the Heart of the Sea

Like a giant bird of prey, the whaleship moved lazily up the western coast of South America...
-- Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea

Lazily? A giant bird of prey, lazy? It's the first sentence of the preface and you've already lost me! Let's hope the cannibalism is described better... because nobody's fooling anybody, that's the whole point of this book.

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