A Voyage For Madmen

But after reading the book, my view of sailing has changed. This book utterly grabbed me. I couldnt put it down and I relished every word.

While the book is a true story, it isnt just a documentary. It is full of stories and portraits of people who are more fantastic than fiction. I think that not knowing anything about the Golden Globe race kept me in greater suspense. This was a page-turner til the very end.

I applaud Peter Nichols and his writing style. I read Perfect Storm and found it sterile and unemotional. This book was just the opposite. It was invigorating, enriching and human.

The new book, "Voyage for Madmen" is, again, a beautifully and honestly told true story. His knowledge of the sea and boats gives him the proper foundation to tell the harrowing tale of the Golden Globe race, but its his ability to get inside the people involved that makes this a great read.

Nichols has done it again. Keep up the great work.

When I read the inside cover, I was left with the impression that all but one sailor survived. I thought this would be an entralling story about the peril of each lost sailor and the triump of the sole survivor. Thats not the case. Only one *finished* . . . which is more then I can say about how I did with this book. I stopped reading it 2/3 of the way through. There arent many books where Ill make a 2/3 investment in time only to skip the end.

There are plenty of other great sailing books about racing. "Close to the Wind" and "The Proving Grounds" were both excellent.