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Well, it is of course just my reaction to the book and everyone else may well disagree with me. Perhaps I was expecting too much of the book because of the praise it had received, but I just found the author's style rather pedestrian, and I felt that he crammed in every bit of information he could.
To answer your question, perhaps it was the tragedy of the event, and the epic nature of the journey in the open boats that in part led to the praise. It would be dishonest of me to say
I thought it was a work of great literary merit just because other people say it is, but as I say, I could well be wrong.
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