This was like Unbroken meets A League of Their Own meets South Pacific! Now the question is how to review this as something other than one long tribute to Heart of Archness... Just wait while my brain's buffering!
The coolest thing about this book is the story. A bunch of people stranded by a plane crash in New Guinea? Awesome! The research was really thorough. I esspecially like how the author went to the natives who were on the other side of the story and got their perspective. On the flip side Lost was a w...
I love fiction. It makes up the vast majority of what I read, but every now and then a true story comes along that sounds interesting, and I take a chance. Usually I'm disappointed because there is a distinct difference in style which most non-fiction writers fall into which makes the narration st...
I enjoy reading history books, although events around World War II have never really interested me. However, this book fascinated me, mainly because it is not about battles or military strategies. A sight-seeing flight with military personnel crashes into a mountain in the heart of New Guinea. Th...
This is a fascinating non-fiction account of the crash of a small American military plane in an inaccessible valley in Dutch New Guinea in the waning days of WWII. The plane was carrying soldiers and WACs (Women's Auxiliary military staff) on a sightseeing flight on a day off. The story follows the ...
"The cabin crumbled forward toward the cockpit. The walls of the fuselage collapsed as though sucked inward. Both wings ripped away. The tail section snapped off like a balsa-wood toy. Flames shot through the wreckage. Small explosions rang out like gunshots. Black smoke choked off the light. The ai...
Lost in Shangri-La was my first experience with narrative non-fiction and I think I may be in love. For those of you like me who haven’t read narrative non-fiction before, I would describe it as a novel in which personal lives are as well researched as the bigger picture and the whole thing is prese...
I started Lost in Shangri-La and finished Lost in Shangri-La in one short afternoon. I was completely unfamiliar with the story before I read the book, so I was hooked into trying to figure out who would live and who would die as well as seeing what permanent changes the experience would make on the...
I forgot I was gonna put this on my list. I'm a total sucker for books like this - nonfiction travel adventure disaster kinds of things. This one was on Salon's top nonfiction of 2011 list.
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