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Alive : The Story of the Andes Survivors

Alive : The Story of the Andes Survivors

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great read .. one of the best ever
Review: My book group were given this book last month to read and then discuss. I initally thought "oh no -- I don't want to read about this sort of thing". But boy -- was I wrong -- I couldn't put it down ... quite an emotional ride for the reader as well. I'm buying copies as presents for relatives -- and I'll rent the video (which will probably be disappointing). Highly recommended !!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best book I have ever read
Review: The emotions you feel while reading this book travel like a roller coaster. You try to imagine what it must have been like and yet can never come anywhere near the true horror of it all. To think that 16 people survived it does seem like a miracle. When each one dies you feel the loss as though you were there. I can only applaud the author in putting across this story so fully. This IS the best book I have read.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It was amazing, I laughed and cried!
Review: I absolutely loved it, I couldn't put it down once I got into it. It was very well detailed, and emotions of the men in it were expressed so very well, that I could almost feel their pain myself. I loved it, it was incredible.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best true story ever made
Review: This book is based on the intriguing true story of the Andes survivors. It starts with a group of optimistic and eager Uruguayan rugby players that leave for Chile on a charter plane for an important competition there. On their way, they crash in the middle of the Andes. They not only face the lack of food due to no plants or animal life on the mountain, but also sub-zero temperatures and two avalanches. This is a story of how the desire of surviving comes true. This book also made us think about death from a wider perspective, and of how hard it is to lose a friend and have to eat his dead flesh in order to survive. We recommend this true and amazing story of man against the drastic condition of nature, in this case the extremely cold temperatures of the Andes

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An excellent book!
Review: It was a great book. We read it for English class and our group just loved it. We had a choice between some other books and this one seemed the most exciting. There was nothing wrong with it. It was a very moving story that made me think about how real it really was and that these people are still alive today. I reccomend this book to anyone who can handle the terrifying scenes.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Grrrreat!
Review: I had to read this book for school. Unlike the opinions of others, i thought this was one of the best books ever written. it is a wonderful story about the triumph of the human spirit and the will to live. id recommend it to anyone and everyone.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Great, Powerful Read!
Review: The story intrigued me after watching the atrocious movie version. I'm glad I sought out the book. This is the most powerful true story I've read since reading the tales of Holocaust survivors.

Having also read Krakaur's Into Thin Air, I must say that this is the far superior story. What these kids (mostly 19-26 y.o.) endured puts Krakaur's experience to shame. The ingenuity and will to survive are incredible.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Beginning to End
Review: I wasn't sure what I was going to think of this book when I picked it up to read. While I do enjoy true stories of this magnitude, the content was causing the uncertainty. Little did I know that I would not move from my seat until I had read it from beginning to end. It took extraordinary individuals to survive this incident and even greater ones to recall all that had happened to them. There is nothing that is left out of this book. The author put his heart and soul into it and the result is awesome. I have since read the book 8 times and it is still as good as the day I first opened it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This Book was Slow
Review: I disliked this book. I had to read it for school. Most of the time I read a book from school i can at least find the cliffnotes for it on the internet if it gets too boreing but i was stranded with this one. It was standable at the end but it got off to such a slow start I just about fell alseep while i was reading it. I strongly recomend not getting this book if you don't have a long attention span.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I ONLY HOPE I WOULD BE SO STRONG
Review: Truly the single most inspirational book I have ever read, and definitely the best piece of nonfiction. It's written so well, though, that it successfully lacks the boredom that bogs some nonfiction down. Nando Parrado is a true hero that is given much justice in Read's telling of his story. Read is fair and descriptive about the cannibalism, but in this incredible study of human nature and the reactions of different strong and weak people when the chips are down, ultimately turns the videocamera on ourselves and makes us wonder - unsettlingly so- how we would react. It flows with good dialogue and factual simplicity, with an ending that deserves three cheers. I don't know that any other nonfiction writer could have tackled this controversial story with the soul that Read did. I will never forget.


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