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The Language Of The Sea: A Novel (2000)

by James MacManus(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 4

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review 1: At first I found this book entertaining in a mild way, until the main character falls overboard into the sea. The following chapter has him swimming with seals and traveling with them from beach to beach for several weeks, to the avoidance of human contact and rescue. His family and friends morn his loss, while he is surviving on what he can glean from the ocean and seemingly turning into a seal. The plot turned weird on me. While it was a given that the main character is a marine biology professor, whose main interest is seals - still the premise just was not realistic. But I plodded on. And in the continuing chapters, the book held more than just a man leaving his life behind and becoming one with nature. There's a message there that while this is a water planet, we know... more very little about the ocean life around us. We know more about outer space than we do the ocean depths. A worthwhile message-- and others about fishing, overfishing, animal communication and behavior, evolution........it's just in an unusual package.
review 2: While I did enjoy this book once I was able to get into it, it was a bit of a slow process. I had to put it down a couple of times, but I wanted to read it, so I kept going. I really enjoyed the last half of the book. I just had a hard time relating to any of the characters, except for Leo, but only later in the book. I did enjoy learning about the seals and marine life. I do agree that there is so much we have left to learn about our own planet. Try The Language of the Sea and see if it speaks to you... less

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