N/F The BOYS in the BOAT, American Champs @ the Berlin Olympics

The Boys in the Boat is the historic novel of 9 Americans & their epic quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics written by Daniel Jame Brown.  This topic should float your boat but it won't.  The era in America during the great depression & dust bowl of the 1930's is a very bleak but of major significance  in our country's history.  Abroad, Hitler is rising to power and the seeds of hatred & another world war are brewing.  We admire but learn more than we care for a band of young men vying arduously for a spot in the crew boat @ Washington Univ. and the construction of their boats.  I did find it illuminating   grasping the life-transofrming experience of rowing. "the prospect o;f finding in themselves something they did not yet know they possessed."  However, I'm skipping ship midstream, nothing of relevance has occurred.  I'm 1/2 way through this turgid & disappointing book & dropping my paddles.  The elements are here to assemble a fast paced, winning novel.  I found The Boys in the Boat slow rowing.