Sara's Reviews > Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them

I wanted to read this book because I thought it would be a fun adventure about rubber duckies lost at sea and the people who tried to find them again. No such luck! It was a very long read mostly about pollution (which is a serious thing, I grant you) and the people and organizations trying to stop it.

It was way too detailed when it came to names, dates and somewhat irrelevant connections between people. He jumps about in the timeline in a very confusing way sometimes and when giving examples or making comparisons, often come up with 2,3 or 4 different ones where, really, 1 or 2 would do. This makes it all quite longwinded and somewhat boring for a person with no mind for remenbering dates and names of people who are not instrumental to the story.

I thought it would be more of a cohesive story but it seemed quite disconnected to me and there was some pretty random philosophical thoughts about childhood, the sea and all sorts of other things, that in my opinion didn't really matter for the story at hand.