Sharknado is closer to reality than Track Down. The cringest part is Tsutomu's fictional gf.
However my cringiest take away from the book was Simomura's detailing of what he was eating which seemed to have so many mentions that at times I thought it was a healthy eating dialogue.
You'd be better off watching Freedom Downtime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Downtime
https://archive.org/details/FreedomDowntime-TheStoryOfKevinM...