Deep Survival : Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales (2017, Trade Paperback)

Emperors new clothes

Against the grain for me but I do feel that I am the person looking at the Emperor as he parades his new clothes.

The book is dreadful, it is a series of anecdotes of stories he has heard first and second hand, I found little about true survival and many contradictions within the book for example if a claim is made that people who stick by the rules do not survive, why have or attend survival training that instills rules.

The Zen stuff is frustrating, as was the aura of the waves, why do we need to know about the price of a glass of wine, the person wearing flip flops, to me this is padding....i found 20 to 30 pages of real interest, the rest was to make the book publishable.

I felt so let down after looking forward to a good read about acts of survival and what drove the person to survive against the odds, it does not hit the markRead full review

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