Unbroken

I found the delivery of the story very poor at times. Also a good 100 pages too long. On page 168 of my copy the author writes “Louie was furious at the shark. He had thought that they had an understanding:the men would stay out of the sharks turf - the water- and the sharks would stay off theirs -the raft” Seriously? I know that Louis Zamperini may have said this to the author in phone conversations but to be a serious biography the delivery needs to be far less commercial. It reeked of the need to turn the story into a film script.

I thought the author was on better ground in the writing about the POW camps. There were many other witness to the events that the author was able to draw on and in my opinion that showed with better delivery. Be that as it may in the end I came away disappointed and feel that the delivery of the story did not do it justice.