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This was a fascinating and enjoyable read. The author takes a three week journey on a fishing boat as a supernumery, or a "pleasure tripper" as the crew describe him. The boat sails from England around the top of Norway to the coast of Russia and back and the whole time the author/protagonist is violently seasick. Despite seasickness being the depth of misery for me, the ruminations of the victim, lying on his bunk were interesting and sometimes funny. His stream of consciousness style is famili
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Trawl is an odd book in which the narrator tells the story in a series of meandering thoughts and memories. It takes place on a 3 week sea-faring journey where he is violently ill and is examining his memories of past relationships as well as reliving his childhood. The title is apt as it feels as though he is trawling his memories.
The narration is unreliable and at times he even says that he is not sure that the events actually occurred and that they may have been dreams. This was actually the ...more
The narration is unreliable and at times he even says that he is not sure that the events actually occurred and that they may have been dreams. This was actually the ...more
This book by B. S. Johnson written in 1966 is a book about a man who has decided to take a trip on a fishing boat. He is not a seasoned fisherman. In fact he is sick, sick a lot. We, the reader, get to hear of his memories of his past. He spews these out just like he spews everything in his gut. It is a mess, out of order, without necessarily making sense and the author tells us that maybe he is wrong in his memories. The narrator is essentially alone and isolated. He does not fit in with the cr
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