Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors. Piers Paul Read
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099574521 (0099574527)
Publish date: October 1st 2012
Publisher: Arrow
Edition language: English
In October of 1972 a plane carrying 45 passengers and crew crashed into a glacier in the Andes. Within a week there were only 27 left alive and the food was running out and soon hope of rescue was lost. To stay alive, those remaining had to resort to eating the bodies of the dead. Eventually two of ...
Read this when I was 14. Three months later I still couldn't sit in a chair without wondering what my own asscheeks would taste like, sashimi-style.What a fucking story.
Truly an amazing book. Much better than any movie made from it. A powerful story of friendship, love and the will to survive. A true story. Tragic, shocking, difficult, but powerful. You'll never forget it and it will inspire you.
I think I was still in junior high when I read this one. Well written, but a little too grim for me, as I recall.