Robert M. (shotokanchef) reviewed on + 813 more book reviews
Includes "The Misfits": a story about two loser cowboys and a bush pilot roping mustangs. Not much of a story plot, but Hollywood somehow made a full-length movie from it. Oh well, if they could do it with Hemingway's "After the Storm" then why not!
The only story that I enjoyed was "Fitter's Night." In this, a Brooklyn shipfitter, after arranging to goof off with pay for his night shift, finds himself detailed to make a repair to a destroyer's depth charge rack. Of course, it is windy and cold. He balksâhe has a "date" for breakfast tomorrowâbut as the ship must meet a convoy in a ew hours, he acquiesces to the dangerous job: a hero in his own right. And, he gets to keep the "date." There's more story here than "The Misfits."
The only story that I enjoyed was "Fitter's Night." In this, a Brooklyn shipfitter, after arranging to goof off with pay for his night shift, finds himself detailed to make a repair to a destroyer's depth charge rack. Of course, it is windy and cold. He balksâhe has a "date" for breakfast tomorrowâbut as the ship must meet a convoy in a ew hours, he acquiesces to the dangerous job: a hero in his own right. And, he gets to keep the "date." There's more story here than "The Misfits."
