WELL. That was EXCITING! Although I think my common sense possibly drowned. The premise is “5 teens, 1 boat, in the middle of the ocean” which is all well and good until you discover the reason they end up in that predicament. GAWSH. Humans are stupid.
I was actually reading this whilst my 4yrs nephew bounced on my head, so I showed him the cover and said, “What do you think?” And he said, “It looks boring.” He’s going to be a harsh book reviewer when he grows up. Omg. I’m so proud. I don’t think it was boring, per se, but I felt emotionally uninvested.
I am mostly a puddle of shrugs.
But I am a puddle of desperation as well. I couldn’t put the book down. I HAD TO KNOW. So for addictiveness, it is wonderful.
BUT LET’S BACK UP AND TALK ABOUT THE PREMISE. So! Two best friends, Matt (the narrator) and John are selling ice cream and stuff to save up for their futures, and they meet these Brazilians on holiday. Let us bounce to the part where Matt (dragging John) goes to a party [insert introvert partying awkwardly] and he really likes this girl Dri, and then OH NO! The rebel of the party throws a tantrum and runs out to windsurf at 2am. Matt (still dragging that poor John), Dri and her cousin JoJo aaaall run into a boat THAT THEY HAVE NOT CHECKED FOR FUEL OR ANYTHING and then toss themselves in the ocean. Least to say, it goes horribly wrong. I mean. DUH. Would you jump into a boat without checking the motor works?? I mean, come on.
Despite cringeing at the “WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT” moments, I was quite interested in the characters.
- Matt was the “nice guy” and totally boring.
- John was like this silent, tortured kind of…possible sociopath? He seemed to have no emotion. Yay John!
- Dri seemed like the token nice-exotic-girl-you-meet-on-a-holiday-and-omg-instant-connection.
- JoJo was pretty normal until he was stuck stranded in a small boat in the middle of the ocean with no food/water/help/medication. Then he was — not nice.
- Stef spent like 80% of the book unconscious.
Let’s say I probably wouldn’t share my last peanut to keep them alive. I’d eat it. By myself. I felt indifferent to a lot of the events because the writing just laid out what happened with no BAM. I need bams. I had to keep rereading because my attention wandered.
But the psychological aspects had me hooked like a small eel. It really delves into the how the mind would handle an indefinite time at sea with no food. THAT IS INTERESTING. And terrifying. JoJo is off his meds and this has a big affect on who he is and it’s quite frightening. John turns to ice and he’s absolutely chilling. Matt continued to be as boring as an oar. Oh and there’s lots of injuries and I felt they were done super realistically. I could almost see the gangrene limbs and the oozing blisters. Plus I didn’t know who’d survive and how long they’d go without food. It definitely kept me turning pages. (Although I questioned how much energy they had with zilch food for so long….but what do I know?)
It was a psychologically intriguing survival story. I drowned in the apathetic writing style, but maybe it’s just me who baulked at the writing. You’ll never know unless you READ IT. Mwahhaha ha ha. I’m also endlessly annoyed at the ending, but I think, although it was unsatisfactory, it was still realistic. I just wish the book had been narrated by the sociopath instead of Matt-the-dull-limpet.
ALSO REMIND ME NEVER EVER TO GO SAILING IN CASE I GET STRANDED LIKE THIS. I need my food. I need my books. I don’t wanna consider cannibalism.
THANK YOU TO TEXT PUBLISHING FOR THE REVIEW-COPY! Adrift by Paul Griffin was published July, 2015.
From critically acclaimed writer Paul Griffin comes a fast-paced young adult novel about five very different teens lost at sea with no one to count on but each other.
Matt and John are best friends working out in Montauk for the summer. When Driana, JoJo and Stef invite the boys to their Hamptons mansion, Matt and John find themselves in a sticky situation where temptation rivals sensibility. The newfound friends head out into the Atlantic after midnight in a stolen boat. None of them come back whole, and not all of them come back.
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How long could I survive in a boat with no food?
At least half an hour to 45 minutes.
I UNDERSTAND THIS ON A SPIRITUAL LEVEL.
Okay, okay, when I think about it, I don’t think I’ve actually read that many survival novels. Like, I’ve obviously read novels where characters are trying to survive (pretty much the entirety of GoT haha) but never a novel directly focused on it. IN SAYING THAT, I love the TV show LOST. I think I’ve watched it beginning to end about six times. >.> So yes, I LOVE survival things. But put me in a situation like that? Yeaaaaaah. No way I’d go well. At all. I’d give it about ten minutes on a boat with no food before I started whining. I love the sound of the psychological elements of this, though.
AH YES. I read tons of books where the characters are trying to survive
their insane authorall the things. Like the Hunger Games, too!! BUT SURVIVAL STORIES ARE SO FREAKISHLY GOOD. Did you ever see the Bear Gryllis TV show? I loved that when I was smallish.I would be whining too. xD I think I would be the first dead because the others would toss me overboard. -_-
OH I LOVE SURVIVAL STORIES. I love Hatchet and Life of Pi and stuff like that, and this sounds really cool actually. Despite the fact that you’ve only rated it 3 stars, I’m kind of MORE excited for it now??? Just for the psychological aspect, even 🙂
IT IS COOL. THOUGH. I’m just a tough marker. 😉 I like that I couldn’t put it down (because that is a really really good sign!) I just wish Matt hadn’t been such a boring piece of kelp.
Oh injuries…. bad ones… you just totally put me off the book… that is one thing I just can’t handle…. yes I can survive battle scenes and all amount of happenings to characters that are not the main characters… but if it goes into any detail about their injuries…….. I don’t think I have read many survival stories….. but then you could argue that any adventure story is that… Hunger games…. if that is not survival what is!
I don’t think I’d turn cannibal…. id probably be the one being eaten….. or being left behind reading and not even have gone on the adventure that ended such.
REALLY?!! I love injuries. Omg. Wait. WAIT WAIT THAT SOUNDS SO BAD. XDD I just like realistic injuries and when things go wrong like that because…realism. It’s my favourite thing of ever.
I think I mightn’t survive without food. That sounds just so hard. SO HARD. I need my food, okay? The other day I only had an apple until lunchtime, and by dinner I was so hungry I at 5 tacos. (They were good. Then I ate ice-cream and brownie and was very full, which made up for my lack earlier in the day.) This sounds interesting, but with all the drama and injuries you hinted at, it seems like some bam would be acceptable, right? And boring MCs are THE WORST.
You’re making me crave tacos. xDD I love breakfast. Breakfast is life, tbh. AHHH BUT YES. Maybe I’m alone in feeling uninvested in the characters, but at least the addictive plot and “BUT WHO’S GONNA LIVE” questions kept me flipping pages.
It’s almost ironic that you’ve reviewed this, because I just watched Cast Away with Tom Hanks this weekend and wow, it seriously made me think too! Granted, he gets stranded on an island with coconuts and fish, but still, it’s scary isn’t it? I’ve got to say, if it wasn’t for the boring sounded lead character we view the story from, I’d probably seriously consider this book because it sounds pretty cooooool, you know, and being trapped at see with no food and things is scary as anything. Meh, one day, maybe? Still – great review Cait, putting this on the radar! 🙂
I LOVE CASTAWAY. Seriously. I cried over Wilson, I did. And that’s ridiculous but I’ll probably call my firstborn Wilson just in honour of this momentous moment of tears from my Vulcan soul OVER A VOLLEY BALL. Omg.
Ahem. xD
It’d be scary to be stranded on an island too, I think, because I hate fish. I freeeaking hate fish. AND I’M NO COCONUT FAN EITHER. So I’d still die. -_-
I think I’ve read one survival story? That was the reason this caught my eye. It sounded interesting and like it would be unputdownable, which it sounds like it was. Just a shame you weren’t invested in the characters that much. Great review, Cait!
Yes, it is a bit of sadness about the characters, but if the story is addictive, I call that a win, still. xD
Oooh this book is right up my alley. I’m gonna have to find it. 😀 Thanks for the review!
YAY!! I AM GLAD!
Oh, gosh… I like my food. (Possibly a little too much!) I honestly have NO idea how long I would be able to last. I like to think that I would be able to survive & live to see the end, but I’d probably be the weakling who falls off the boat??
I would never be able to turn to cannibalism. I would probably die of hunger. (I went through elementary school unable to look at the “insides of a human body” diagram without having nightmares… 0-o)
I read ‘Lord of the Flies’ just recently… It was an amazing book, but kinda gave me the creeps!! 😛 Also, ‘Sign of the Beaver’ is a good survival story about a boy who lives in the wild & befriends the natives during the 18th-century America settling days. <3
Food keeps us alive, of course we must like it. *cuddles a tomato* I think I would just cry myself dehydrated and die that way, unfortunately. I would like to THINK I am adventurous and hardy but, um, probably not. I LOVE SIGN OF THE BEAVER!! Omg, that brings back such memories. Did you ever read Moccasin Trail? I was in love with that one too and the survival aspects.
Thank you for this review, although it has some intriguing aspects, I definitely will be avoiding this book like the plague.
ME? NO FOOD?! *dies laughing* I wouldn’t even last the full days. I have 3-5 meals (sometimes two lunches, and two dinners), and sometimes two shacks per day. I wouldn’t last past the first day. Also, I get hangry, and that would NOT be pretty. I wouldn’t turn into a cannibal, though, I’m a bit too high maintenance for that, probably? I’m not too sure if it’s a survival, but my favorite is the Not A Drop To Drink duology by Mindy McGinnis. To be concise, it’s about a girl who lives with her mother, after an apocalyptic period where the water can kill you, and so water is scarce…and they are protecting their pond on the roof of their house in the rurals of Ohio fighting off those scouring the earth for water with guns, as well as killing and fighting coyotes. I love the book as much as I love this
(Ugh, struggling to scroll. Maybe you* won’t since you didn’t enjoy this one. I also really enjoy Gone by Michael Grant & The Monument 14 series by Emmy Laybourne. I also rec Rain by Virginia Berger.)
author. Maybe you’ll be interested, but maybe yoy won’t,
OMG. yoU ARE A PERSON I RELATE TO AN ASTRONOMICAL AMOUNT, THEN, WESAUN. Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day and I cannot survive without lunch. Lunch is LIFE. And I get very very cranky when I’m hungry.
OH MY GOSH THE GONE SERIES IS MY FAVOURITE THING IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE OF EVERRRR!! *flails* I’ve read all 6 books and Light absolutely made me bawl. I love Caine. I love Caine more than I should.
OMGGGGGGGGG. I KNOW. CAINE. CAINE. IT WAS TERRIBLE. I can never go without lunch, EVER. I have read the whole series, all in one go, and I LOVED IT. IT IS SUCH A BRILLIANT PIECE OF GENIUSSSS. I AM SO GLAD WE RELATE AN ASTRONOMICAL AMOUNT. ALL THE HEARTS AND TACKLE HUGSSSS.
CAINE IS JUST A MISUNDERSTOOD, LITTLE, UNLOVED PSYCHOPATH AND MY SOFT SPOT FOR HIM IS QUITE BOUNDLESS. *hangs head shame-but-not-really-shame* hehe I had to wait for Light to come out, but otherwise, I pretty much binge read the. BEST DECISION EVER.
Weeeeeellll, I doubt I would ever turn cannibal–at least, I hope I wouldn’t. But it would also be difficult to starve to death. Still….
But yeah, these kids. *shakes head* I do think the psychological aspect sounds intriguing, and I’m always up for a sociopath. So I’ll have to think about this one. The tagline looks interesting… I think I can guess what that might mean.
Starving to death would be the WORST I think. Also drowning. Also burning. Erghhhh. (I regularly have discussions with my sister on the worst ways to die.) I could handle freezing to death because I think you’d just go to sleep. AHEM. ANYWAY. 😉 Little rabbit trail there…Ohhh, the sociopath is awesome. I like how at one point it throws this idea out that 1 in every 10 people you meet is a sociopath (or something like those statistics). It really got me thinking and wondering if it was true.
Basically what I have learned from various horror novels and Supernatural and whatever other horror stuff I have watched or read: Never go near the ocean, a lake, a river, a stream, a bathtub, a sink, a puddle, a waterfall, or anything that contains water because there might be a lake spirit waiting to drown you or a herd of kelpies or Sirens thirsting for flesh or something.
And boat with no food…well, I know how to fish and I know there is fish that you can eat raw, so no food would be fine BECAUSE I WOULD FIND A WAY TO GET FOOD. It’s water that would be an issue. And I wouldn’t be able to get to the point of cannibalism because by that point I would either have to be without food for like a week and by that point I would be found or dead from dehydration or drowning. And even if I did manage to eat someone, there would be vomiting and one of those teenage girl freak outs because no way did I just eat someone.
Yes. Yes exactly. Don’t go near water, or circuses for that matter, or into creepy alleys or suspicious small towns. BASICALLY GET THEE A BAT CAVE AND LIVE IN IT FOREVER.
I don’t think I can handle realistic gore XD. I prefer my gore to be as far-fetched as possible so that I NEVER have to think about how I can get hurt that way too.
I wouldn’t do well stranded ANYWHERE. I can maybe last half an hour before I start complaining how I haven’t eaten in the last half hour and when can I get some food around here. I’d probably drive myself batty in 5 minutes with only my thoughts to accompany me.
HAAAA. Omg, this is not for you then. The injuries were SO REAL and freaky. *shudders* Reason #948120 why I’m never going boating.
I could probably last a while without food. Water is another story. Trapped on a boat in the middle of the ocean means you’d have to resort to drinking pee… and I just don’t know if I could do that. Especially since it would be really strong due to the fact that you’d already be dehydrated. Yuck.
I doubt I’d turn cannibal, either. Not on a boat, anyway. Like I said, the water would be a bigger issue. I don’t think I’d survive the dehydration long enough to have to resort to cannibalism. (Even on land, with access to water, it would be a last resort. A really last resort. Because if I’m on land, I’m going to be eating the freaking trees before I resort to eating people.)
I know I’ve read some survival stories, but I can’t really recall many at the moment. I know we read The Cay in elementary school. There was also some book called Lost in the Barrens. So many of the survival stories are about boys… Oh, wait! Nancy Farmer’s A Girl Named Disaster is a really good survival story.
EEEEW. NO NO TO DRINKING PEE. They were collecting water in a tarp, somehow. It was legit, I Just forget the details. XD I’m very very glad you’re opposed to cannibalism though. (Although, tbh, no one in the comments has admitted to probably eating a human anyway. WE ARE ALL LOYAL TO OUR SPECIES APPARENTLY.) I loved the Cay!!
This does not sound like my cup of tea, at all. I cannot handle this kind of story, where characters are meh and it’s the same thing for paaaaages at a time. I mean, things might change among the characters, but they’re still stuck at sea. I’d probably enjoy this as a movie, but it really doesn’t sound like something I’d enjoy reading. But I’m glad you found parts of it interesting! 🙂
I would be one of the first to die from lack of food, no question. I have a fast metabolism, and because I’m quite slim, if I don’t get enough food regularly enough, I have dizzy spells. My health would deteriorate rapidly. I do not wish to die, so I think I might consider cannibalism while freaking out and having a panic attack. Like, I might just throw myself at someone in a panicked frenzy and… I don’t like thinking about this. Haha! But I also know I don’t like food that isn’t cooked. I have my steak well done. No bloody please. So I would have issues with the cannibalism, like throwing up whatever I ate. As the weakest, I’d probably be killed, before I die of starvation, and eaten. THIS IS NOT A GOOD SCENARIO FOR ME TO BE IN! So not only does this book not sound like my bag, it now scares me too much to even consider.
Survival stories have never really appealed to me. Though I do want to read Lord of the Flies, is that a survival story?
Thanks for the awesome review, Cait!
OOh, too true. I would like this as a movie too! Have you seen Life of Pi? I LOVED THAT MOVIE. I haven’t gotten up the guts to try the book yet, buuuut…one day. x)
Agh, dizzy spells. I HEAR YA. I think I have low-blood-pressure sometimes though (particularly in the mornings) so breakfast is like my meal of sanity and survival. I WOULD DIE FAST. But mwahhaha, it is full of scary questions. I randomly asked my family if they thought you could survive being shipwrecked by, like, cutting off your hand and eating it…and they all just ran away from me screaming. So I suppose it was a no? *sigh*
(I haven’t read Lord of the Flies! But I THINK it’s a survival story.)
Leave it to Cait to prefer the opinion of sociopaths to someone who is actually nice. Also, google tells me that your name isn’t a real name.
Yes. I am nice.
Wait. My name isn’t my real name??? My name is Cait! I SWEAR.
Are you accusing Google of being a liar? Because I’m PRETTY SURE you’re much more likely to be a liar than google.
What does google think my name is? 0_0
The top three options are Cat, Cit, and Cast.
I love when you go all sea-puns on us, Cait. XD Also I think I could tell right away that you would like John. Yes. He DOES sound interesting. 😛 The book sounds like not-my-thing, but great review! 🙂
(Also I don’t know if it will stay because I always have too many Goodreads shelves and keep deleting them to make room for new whims BUT I MADE A SHELF CALLED CAIT. For books I’ve added because of you. So. You should be proud. 😉 https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/19951545-deborah-o-carroll?shelf=cait&utf8=%E2%9C%93 Now I just hafta get around to READING them… *eyes TBR murderously*)
I feel kinship to John. Oh John. :’) AHEM. I MEAN. NO. I AM A SUPER NICE PERSON WHO WOULD NOT SUGGEST EATING THE WEAKEST LINK IN THE GROUP. Nope.
Oh my. gosh. YOU HVE A SHELF OF MY RECOMMENDATIONS?! I’M JUST GONNA EXPLODE HERE THAT. XDXD :DD
I love your photos! So much. Especially the last one. Because it’s like it’s stranded apart from all the other books on the shelf. It’s a nice effect. 😉
This sounds kind of interesting. I think it would be cooler if it was narrated by John the possible sociopath. Or dually narrated by him and Matt the boring. Because then you would see how outwardly cold John was, how other people perceive him, but still get to see what was really going on in his head. (This is why I love multiple POVs.) It sounds simultaneously riveting and boring. Well, not exactly boring, just slow moving. Because they have no place to GO. I’m used to fantasy. We quest everywhere. We swing swords. We do adventure stuff. Not sit in a boat and starve to death while considering cannibalism.
Aaah. . . and the cannibalism. That’s really sick. I mean, obviously the book is going to talk about it considering the situation. But- that always makes me squeamish. It also makes things very, incredibly dark. (Like, have you ever seen Sweeney Todd? That’s dark. That’s disturbing. Just *shivers*) I’m not sure if my mind would turn to that if I was in that situation. I think my brain would be so dumb, that I’d hardly be able to consider anything. I’d probably go drown myself. 😛 Or the others would eat me first. Yeah. . . that’s probably more accurate. I’d be the first one eaten.
Cait, it’s 10 at night and your disturbing me with talk of cannibalism and cardboard characters! Whyyy?! And which is more disturbing?
Awk, thank you!! I had a SUPER hard time with these photos…hehe, as proven by the fact their are only two instead of 9 dozen like usual. 0_0 But I like how these two ended up, so that’s good. OMg, but thank you! <3
*whispers* There's actually no cannibalism in the book, but they DO think about it. OMG I DON'T THINK I WOULD EAT A HUMAN. Although I was discussing this with my family and asked what the logistics of, say, cutting off your finger and eating it or something would be. BUT THEY YELLED AT ME AND FLED IN TERROR SO IDEK. I GUESS THAT WAS A NO?
I do like survival stories, but when they come about because the main characters were unforgivably stupid….count me out. 🙁
I’d like to think maybe the characters were all drunk because their decision was so stupid??? bUT IT DIDN’T APPEAR TO BE THAT WAY.
The ocean is just a horrifying place, really. I mean, it’s nice to look at, and maybe dip your toes in, but…..its FULL of things (including many undiscovered things) that want to KILL YOU. I mean, there are sharks, and then there are things that EAT SHARKS. It’s got riptides and undercurrents that want to drag you out so far you can’t swim back, and drag you under with such force that you can’t get back up. It’s got waves that want to flip your boat upside down and tear it apart. And sometimes, the whole ocean decides it wants to try and come up on land, and then a village is lost and thousands of people are dead.
…….I don’t like the ocean.
Yes. It’s full of awful things that like to grab you and things that touch you underwater and ERGHHHHH. (I cannot stand things that touch me underwater. I’ve been knowing to be carried in the ocean by my little sister just because I could not deal.)
This is in my TBR but I haven’t got to it yet.
Theoretically, I could last a while before my body runs out of resources, but psychologically I’d crack very early on. I don’t think I’d turn cannibal, but then again…
I would totally crack very fast. It’s the NOT KNOWING if you would survive. Like IF I knew I had “a week before rescue” I think I could do it. But indefinite amount of time?! MY BRAIN WOULD NOT BE OKAY.
I’d probably be one of the ones eaten. LOL No way could I force human flesh down my throat. I like reading books about survival and watching movies too. Don’t have a favorite. They are shooting a remake about the Indianapolis here right now. That was such a tragic true story. All those men adrift in shark infested waters and no one knows they’re missing for days.
Awk, I don’t even know that story but it SOUNDS awful. :O I love survival stories, but at the same time they’re uber stressful. I used to watch a lot of survival shows…there was one where they interviewed the survivor AND reenacted it and I loooved that one. SO FREAKY.
I think my comment got eaten *pouts* So I’m posting again, sorry if it’s a double post!
Firstly I love the first photo! The atlas and the book meshes in the cleverest way!
My worst nightmare is to be stranded on a boat, as I suffer from terrible and gross seasickness. Last time I went snorkelling I almost begged to be left floating on the Great Barrier Reef rather than suffer a boat trip back to land.
The only book of this type I’ve read is Life of Pi which I adored, but this one sounds interesting, too!!
OHOH I’LL CHECK FOR IT IN SPAM MAYBE? (Except this one showed up just fine.) If my blog is being evil, I’ll just glare at it on your behalf. 😉
Atlases are LIFE I tell you. LIFE. And yes, yes, I feel you here, because I get motion sick on cars, so I can just imagine how I’d be a puddle of death on a boat. You went snorkling on the Great Barrier Reef?! OKAY THAT IS PRETTY COOL.
I actually quite like survival stories. I actually kind of want to write one. This one is on my TBR, but this ending business has me wary. I also enjoy that you would let them starve and keep your food. That’s smart, really.
How long would I survive? I mean, I would be cranky without food, BUT I’d be fine for at least a few months (I have extra padding). I would probably die of sunburn or nausea though, far sooner than from lack of food. And NOPE, I would not turn into a cannibal, I feel pretty confident saying that. I mean, I won’t eat anything if it has a hint of onion in it, I am certainly not eating something that has a hint of human in it!
Help me Cait- should I read this, or will the ending piss me off to no end? I don’t want to have to throw things…
I’m all for self-preservation first, Shannon. I’M VERY HONEST, AREN’T I? I would die of nausea to though, because erghhh. I get motion-sick in a car, so a boat would be the end of me.
I DON’T KNOW. I THINK YOU SHOULD READ IT. Because at least I can comfort you through the growling ending, and there are some startling character developments. *whispers* No cannibalism tho, I PROMISE.
This sounds absolutely amazing Cait! You know how much I absolutely love thrillers / survival stories and this sounds like it is top notch in that department. It’s a shame that the character’s decisions were a bit less than stellar at times, but, hey, that’s teenagers for you I suppose. *shrugs* Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this one and, as always, fabulous review! ♥
YES. SILLY TEENAGERS. *sniffs* I, of course, was a fabulously logical teenager. *collapses laughing hysterically* AHHH. BUT ANYWAY. If you do try this one, I hope you like it! 🙂
Well I’m glad it’s not boring but actually filled with excitement! I really do like the survival/psychological aspects. But the characters sound kind of bland/one-dimensional. Thanks for the review Cait! At least I know what to expect now.
I’m totally curious to see if you like it !! 😀
I LOVE survival stories, they are definitely my kind of scary books. (Also, your nephew is hilarious.) Though it does seem like authors always try yet fail with the characters in these type of books. But a really good survival story that I recently read, The Islands at the End of the World by Austin Aslan, packed quite the desperate survival punch but with a side serving of *actually* caring about the characters. I actually shed a tear. Plus, add a spoonful of Hawaiian mythology and a dash of sic-fi elements and IT WAS MARVELOUS.
My nephew has started critiquing all my book choices, particularly at the library. “No, Cait,” he goes, “That looks too scary.” XDXD SO ADORABLE. He approves of my comic addiction though. hehe. OH I MUST LOOK UP THIS ISLANDS AT THE END OF THE WORLD THEN. I have such love for survival stories!
YES THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS!!! Most fascinating thing in the story. Along with the gory, festering injuries. Everything else I didn’t particularly care about haha.
I don’t read survival stories often, but I should probably try more. There’s probably useful skills in there. How long would I survive on a boat? Probably not long now, although maybe once I finish this vet degree I’ll know more randomly useful things and be able to survive a bit longer. It mostly depends on how desperate I am to survive and many books are with me 😛
I feel like I could survive in a TON of situations because of books. OKAY, WELL. I’D LIKE TO THINK I COULD. But lets face it, I’d be just a bawling mess because I wouldn’t be able to read. Like seriously stuck on a raft for 2 weeks with no books?! ULTIMATE TORTURE.