Play Book Tag discussion

On January 10, 1992, a container ship traveling south of the Aleutians took a steep roll and lost part of its cargo. The incident had near-mythical repercussions. Among the lost merchandise were 7,200 packs of bathtub toys. Each four-piece set included a blue turtle, a green frog, a red beaver and a yellow duck. In little more than 24 hours the ocean was transformed into a giant bathtub on which bobbed 28,800 plastic toys. The migration of these toys bobbing on the currents of the Pacific has been monitored by environmentalists, meteorologists, and an English teacher from Manhattan named Donavan Hohn.

There were so many interesting stories this book could have told about ocean conservation and water pollution. It could also have been a humorous hunt for the lost rubber ducks. But it didn't tell those stories. The end result was a long-winded monologue with no apparent point at all.

This is really a story about plastic in the ocean and the currents, surface and deep, that move things in the ocean. Why that was so interesting that the author decided to take off to Alaska in the last month of his wife's pregnancy where he remained out of cell phone range is something I can't explain. I was very disappointed and can't think of a single person I would recommend it to.

Disappointing. This sounds like it could be an intriguing subject.

So disappointing!