>>24611374
<Pic attached> is a great example of "amazing subject-matter, shame about the writing". Neal Ellis is quite a guy (basically he spent his time flying helicopter gunships all round the place but particularly in some nasty little wars in Africa). A half-way competent author (Frederick Forsyth, say) could have made a smash hit out of his life story. Sadly the guy they actually got it is only about one-third competent. A missed opportunity; even so, it's still worth a read.


>>24613536
Depends what you want out of a book. It’s an unpretentious account of five top blokes and a parrot sailing across the Pacific in a balsa-wood raft.

Try two pages and you’ll know if you want to read the rest.