Customer Reviews

Voyages of the Damn Foole

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Voyages... are refreshing, hilarious, cynical short stories opposing the Boy Scout motto "Be Prepared". If you like the writing of Kurt Vonnegut or Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces" you will love this book. While some of the stories are a bit repetitive, they are wonderful. If you are a sailor, no doubt you will recognize some of the characters in the book - including the boat's. The black and white illustrations in the book are charming and add a lot.

Tom is a cranky man with a leaky boat that talks to him. He sometimes carries with him a crew of mocking ghosts as well as he travels.

Doesn't sound too promising, and yet this book, first published as a series of mimeographed pages tacked to the wall of a marina, gets closer to the spirit of sailing than anything you'll ever read.

the damn foole by tom mcgrath is a good book becuse i think it is it is exilirating and exciteing but it gets boring after a while because it is very repetive and somewhat boring. its the same thing over and over again with nothing new ever happening. this makes the story boring and unfun that is also why i gave this book only 1 star its not good book with some funny parts its the samething over and over;he goes somewhere meets some people then he leaves and does it all over again. very repetive and very boring. I did not like the book at all.on the story tome does the same thing over and over again makiong the story boring and all that.