Jenny's review
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
by Laurence Gonzales
Jenny's review
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales
Jenny's review
rating:
recommended for: anyone
I was attracted to the subtitle--who lives, who dies, and why. It took me a couple chapters to get into this book. It seemed to be heavily focused on the author and his experiences, some of which didn't seem to be much about survival. But his father's story of surviving a plane crash during war did, and that was amazing.
Gonzales structured his chapters in a way that gripped me--he would provide the basics of a real-life story and then would interrupt the story with pertinent research, leaving me hanging, but in a good way. Many of the stories had tragic endings, but many were examples of amazing survival.
This book had moments of interest on what it means to be a survivor. Some points were about not just survival but life itself. Overall the author was communicating a bigger point without thwonking us over the head with it: we city and suburb dwellers may think of all the world as being safely structured, but it's not. Much of it has corners or cliffs or creatures that bring us...more
Gonzales structured his chapters in a way that gripped me--he would provide the basics of a real-life story and then would interrupt the story with pertinent research, leaving me hanging, but in a good way. Many of the stories had tragic endings, but many were examples of amazing survival.
This book had moments of interest on what it means to be a survivor. Some points were about not just survival but life itself. Overall the author was communicating a bigger point without thwonking us over the head with it: we city and suburb dwellers may think of all the world as being safely structured, but it's not. Much of it has corners or cliffs or creatures that bring us...more
