The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town (edit title)

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Liked It Rated 4 stars “This book taught me more about Cape Ann than I had learned in eight years of living here, and was fascinatingly thought provoking about how towns, and professions can change over time. Very, very enjoyable.” see full review » see other reviews »

Didn’t Like It Rated 2 stars “Not as interesting as I'd hoped.” see full review » see other reviews »

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  • Rated 3 stars

  “Interesting book, especially if you are familiar with Gloucester. This author can be maddening though. Intersperesed throughout the book are stories and asides that are absolutely fascinating mashed together with the most obtuse and disjointed writing style. His other book (The Big Oyster) was similar. Very interesting in parts and wildly incohesive in others. I had no idea what the extended storyline about the British ports had to do with Glocuester (other than to reinforce the previously stated points with a non-American context.
  Still, it was interesting for some of the folklore about Gloucester that is explored. ”

  Otis H wrote this review Monday, September 14 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 0 stars

  “Good. Not as good as Cod. Seemed a little rushed. I found his argument that tourism kills culture interesting and worth researching. The stories of Gloucester were best wish there were more of them. ”

  Tim E wrote this review Monday, August 3 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 3 stars

  “I very much enjoyed the history it contained, but the narrative was a little more choppy than I'm used to in a Kurlansky book. This was the first book I read on my Kindle, though, so it very well could have been the medium as much as the writing.”

  spolay wrote this review Thursday, June 4 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 2 stars

  “Not as interesting as I'd hoped.”

  JulieK wrote this review Tuesday, February 10 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 4 stars

  “This book taught me more about Cape Ann than I had learned in eight years of living here, and was fascinatingly thought provoking about how towns, and professions can change over time. Very, very enjoyable.”

  E. M wrote this review Wednesday, October 1 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 4 stars

  “Well written, informative, and suprisingly interesting. I've no real interest in the topic but Kurlansy has a way of making his subjects interesting and absorbing.
  
  This isn't a book I'd have picked up, it was a gift and I started reading it out of boredom. I finished it because I became quite absored in the characters as well as the ancillary facts it contained. ”

  david and patty a wrote this review Thursday, September 18 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No