4 starsMay/June 2013 selection for the Stranger Than Fiction book discussion group sponsored by the Kansas City Public Library. For the rest of my review and notes from the discussion held in late June, please visit this article at my blog: http://bit.ly/19KrehS
I actually felt a little guilty for not particularly liking this book. The unending trials that the subject, Louie Zamperini, had to endure at the hands of both the sea and his fellow man, were truly biblical. Page after page and chapter after chapter of endless torment, torture, fear and abuse we...
Wow. I'm not a big reader of non-fiction, but this book was amazing. It makes me wish I could ask my grandfather about his experiences during WWII; he would never talk about it, and he passed away in 2006.
A great WWII story about survival and perseverance. It took me a little bit to get into the story, but once I did I could not put it down. http://youtu.be/JpQDwHxhsJ8
4 easy steps to writing a war bio:Step 1: Find a guy with a great backstory. Overcame polio, a mother who was a druggie, turned running from the law into Olympic greatness.Step 2: Must be heroic in the war. If a pilot, returned to base on no fuel with multiple gun shots. If infantry, invaded by hims...
Unbroken is so many stories rolled into one. Louie Zamperini had a talent for running, he ran at the 1936 games in Berlin and had been widely tipped to become the first man to run a mile under 4 minutes, then war arrived.Wgen another plane goes missing at sea, Zamperini and a crew of volunteers take...
Incredibly well-written, full of interesting photographs and just grueling to read. The POWs of WWII in Japan is a subject I previously had not plumbed. I had to keep putting this down and going outside to breathe, it was so intense and horrifying. I simply cannot imagine what it must have been like...
I.LOVE.THESE.SERIES.Honestly, I can't wait to get my hands on the other books and they only get better and better.I think I can safely say I'm a big fan of Moira Moore now :)
What a great writer! I loved Seabiscuit and this was almost as good. It was great. It was a real story that is better than most fictionalized stories. A great story that teaches you a lot about real life as a soldier in WWII, and as a Pacific POW. And the resiliency of the human heart, mind, and bod...
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