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mscalls's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
tense
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Vomit
Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Blood
foxo_cube's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
4.0
Shark Drunk is a lovely book. It's very much a love song to the sea, fishing, and to the author's best friend, Hugo, not to mention the Greenland shark they're looking for. It's meditative and interesting, but quietly very funny.
A strange thing about the book is that, depending on how you look at it, very little happens, and a lot happens. Maybe it's the calm in the narration that means, even if something pretty terrifying is happening, it doesn't disrupt the flow as a whole.
My favourite characteristic of Shark Drunk is that there's an almost childish sense of wonder towards things, the Greenland shark, especially. The shark is real, obviously, but it seems to become an entity beyond the actual fish that Morten and Hugo are determined to find, and they almost have their own little mythology around it.
At the end, when they hook what is likely a shark, and the line snaps, I won't pretend I didn't shut my eyes and say, "Oh, nooo!", especially when I saw that was it. But, with the nature of this book, I can't say I was wholly disappointed, either. That's how it is sometimes, and that's pretty much what Shark Drunk is about.
A strange thing about the book is that, depending on how you look at it, very little happens, and a lot happens. Maybe it's the calm in the narration that means, even if something pretty terrifying is happening, it doesn't disrupt the flow as a whole.
My favourite characteristic of Shark Drunk is that there's an almost childish sense of wonder towards things, the Greenland shark, especially. The shark is real, obviously, but it seems to become an entity beyond the actual fish that Morten and Hugo are determined to find, and they almost have their own little mythology around it.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Blood
apersonfromflorida's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death
Minor: Animal cruelty
acesnsk8s's review against another edition
Going in as someone who loves sharks and probably didn't read the synopsis as well as I should have, I was hoping for shark scientists--I'm not interested in a big fish story and someone needlessly killing potentially one of the oldest animals around. The meditations and humor generally did work for me, though, the premise just doesn't.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death