Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: The "glass" was half full.

I have read several books about the Vendee Globe, and the BOC, and in most cases have been riveted by the ferocity of the sea, and the the hardships these sailors faced. But this book was disjointed, and disorganized. Several times the author begins to take you into the fearsome southern sea only to digress into the technicalities of yacht construction...back to the sailors risking their lives...the history of the round-the-worlds...back to the sailors, etc. But near the start of the book he reaveals the dire straits some of the competitors are facing, and then shortly after places people thousands of miles away from their perils. Near the beginning of the race. Start the book at least half way through, and still be prepared to skim read. I'll give this book away.