jen's review
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Avon Nonfiction)
by Piers Paul Read
jen's review
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Avon Nonfiction) by Piers Paul Read
jen's review
rating:
recommended for: not my grandma!
As a frequent flyer, I found this book fairly disturbing and will think twice when flying over the Rockies next time. Can planes make it over the Andes now? Surely someone would come looking for us if we were to crash in some remote part of Wyoming, right? And I don't know if I could eat another person, I mean I don't even eat pork steaks because i think they're too fatty.
Seriously, I thought the story was fascinating. Although it seemed to drag on some, I think that was necessary to give the reader some feeling for how long there were there, how boring it was, how their physical condition declined over time and how desperate they were to find a way out. I think I would actually give the book a 3.5 if I could figure out this star system, though, because I thought the author's writing style was a little light considering the gravity of the situation.
Seriously, I thought the story was fascinating. Although it seemed to drag on some, I think that was necessary to give the reader some feeling for how long there were there, how boring it was, how their physical condition declined over time and how desperate they were to find a way out. I think I would actually give the book a 3.5 if I could figure out this star system, though, because I thought the author's writing style was a little light considering the gravity of the situation.
