The Whale Warriors

I thought I knew something about ecology and whaling until I read this book. I didn't. I had no idea of how brutal whaling is and how much we've already damaged the oceans. But the author lays it out clearly. "Gripping" is kind of overused, but it's the word that comes to mind when I try to described this book. After finishing it, I looked up the Sea Shepherd web site and became a supporter. I hope other people will enjoy this book and perhaps also become supporters of Captain Watson's organization.

Heller recorded his impressions during a trip on the Farley Mowat. It's a sympathetic but not uncritical view of Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd. You get a much better idea of them than from the TV series. Very well read.

Sadly, no, I wouldn't recommend the audio version. I did, however, buy the paperback edition to give to a friend.

The game of "chicken" the ship played with the Japanese. Even the narrator didn't ruin that.

Different narrator.

How disappointed I am in Green Peace.

It's a good story, very educational.

Pick a better narrator.

He really makes it hard to want to continue to listen too. He's monotoned, has no inflection, no differences in voices for characters; it almost sounds computer generated. He needs to add life to the characters.

I'm struggling with this one because the story is good but the narrator makes it hard to justify the time.

The premise of adventure in Antarctica.The monotonous voice of the reader who didn't vary the voices despite a plethora of characters.

The crazy captain who was willing to risk his life to save whales from the Japanese.The slow unfolding of the details of the various crew members lives was used to create suspense,but instead made me think that there would never be any real action.

Vary the voices and give the charecters life.Maybe it would have been better to read this one instead.

Absolutely not.It could have been done in a third less space.There was too much time devoted to the mundane facts of peoples lives.In an adventure book the reader or listener wants action.

The premise of the book was better than the book itself.I did sort of figure out that Japanese people want to kill the whales not so much for the sake of killing the whales,but perhaps to increase the fish stocks.They are greedy and malevolent people when it comes to the ocean.They also fish off the coast of Somalia and dump their toxic waste there.No wonder Somalia pirates want to hi jack ships.

This is the second book I have listened to with this reader.I didn't realize it was him until it was too late. He has almost no inflection, and is as monotone as can be.