Reviewed by Kate
The Lure of the Wild Sea
Reviewed by Kate
Fishing is a bit like golfing or eating snails. People who aren't into it don't understand the fascination. The narrator of "The Lure of The Wild Sea" sets out to discover, with journalistic curiosity, what makes otherwise sane individuals spend all day in boats surrounded by bait, ice and sea.
The beginning of this story tries very hard to make the quest into an anthropological investigation. Unfortunately this also makes it unnecessarily mysterious. The story's best points are the descriptions of seascape and the terse atmosphere in the boat. After such a build-up, it is mildly disappointing that the narrator comes to no conclusion about the lure of fishing.
My suggestion would be: rewrite this as a straight narrative, with a more convincing reason for the narrator being in the boat, and go from there.
Reviewed by © Kate
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