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Summary: The best non-fiction adventure novel ever written
Review: I recently just finished reading a great novel: Alive - the Story of the Andes Survivors written by Piers Paul Read. This is a well-written novel about a team of strong rugby players and their loyal fans and family who crash on a plane in the high Andes Mountains. Their only shelter was the plane's shattered fuselage and their only supplies consisted of wine, marmalade, and a few candy bars. This story captures this horrific catastrophe and the amazing survival of the original thirty-two survivors to the final sixteen that actually made it out alive after they resorted to canabalism. I loved this novel and believe it is the best non-fiction adventure ever written. As I read about their story, I felt as though I knew the characters personally and began to truly feel emotions and troubles they were experiencing. Alive is very realistic and captures the hopelessness of the situation and the special bonds between the survivors. After reading Alive, absolutely no one will underestimate their will to survive.Alive is especially appealing to those people who enjoy suspenseful adventures novels. Anyone who loves detailed accounts of nature and its landscape will enjoy it thoroughly. I would venture to guess that a wide range of people would love it and would never want to set this great novel down including; health professionals, athletes and outdoor enthusiasts.
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Summary: Survivors
Review: Alive is a very boring book. The plot is way to long, and it takes to long to read. The book really doesn't make sense either.How the survivors live in the Andes is kind of weird, I think. Something that was good about the book is that the author made you feel like you were actually in the mountains with the survivors. Something else that I like about this book is that theywere saved in a really cool way. Another thing that I don't like about this book is that there is a lot of days that this book takes place.So,if you were to buy this book I would sort of recommend this book. Take my advice and don't by this book.
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Summary: great book
Review: i gave "Alive" five stars because it was a great story about a group of rugby players that are in a plane crash in the andes mountains where they are faced with very controversial decisions which challenged them mentally and spiritually.
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Summary: Alive
Review: I read the book Alive and really enjoyed it! I would recommend this book to anyone that would be able to handle reading about eating body parts. The book is about a plane that crashed over the mountains and what people had to do to stay alive. This book was sad in some parts because you have to remember that people went through hell trying to stay alive and had to live through life knowing that they ate their friends. This book is hard to put down and makes you think about how far you would go to stay alive.
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Summary: The Thrills, The Chills ... The Mild Sense of Nausea
Review: Alive by Peirs Paul Read is one of the most amazing stories ever told. It chronologically tells the story of the Argentine Rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes Mountains in the early 1970's. Some parts are boring and others so gruesome one begins to feel ill, the gory details of the events that unravel are enough to make one lose his appetite for a week. However, with a good amount of focus one can learn to put the grotesque details away from the forefront of the mind and take the book for what it really is, one of the most stunning and heart wrenching true stories of a life time. The value of this book in a reader's life is immeasurable, no person should go his entire life without reading it. All in all Alive was an amazing tale that kept me enthralled in the lives of each character until the very end.
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Summary: -=Appetizing=-
Review: This book was pretty good. Sometimes it made me forget that I was reading a NON-fiction book. It was quite interesting because I started to think about what I would do in their situation. Although kind of gross sometimes, it was an amusing story. Definitely not for the weak stomached. Some chapters were a bit slow and there were a lot of characters to keep track of, but for the most part it was an exciting read. I recommend it even if you don't have to read it for school. Especially if you buy it for $0.01 like I did!
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Summary: 45 passengers, 16 survivors, 1 amazing story
Review: I gave this book 4 out of 5 stars for its vivid details and the fact that it is based on something that truly happened. It is quite a good book but tended to be a tad bit too graphic at times. It had so much detail that you could actually get the feeling as if you were actually there with the Andes survivors. The heroism, bravery, and courage of these people is what got me hooked on this book and once I started to read it was hard to try and put it down. It never got boring and will always keep you on your toes.
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Summary: A gripping true story of human survival
Review: This book was beautifully written from start to finish and contains one of the most amazing survival stories ever told. It follow the events of a Uruguayan rugby team who's plane crashes in the middle of the Andes mountains. As their number dwindle drastically, they are forced to take drastic measures in order to ensure their survival so that they might one day be reunited with their families. This story compels feelings of sadness, hope, desperation, suffering, shock and so many others. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to know what it really means to survive, even if it means doing the unthinkable. To look death in the face and come out alive.
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Summary: BEST ADVENTURE BOOK
Review: from begining to end this book has been great the start wasn't that interesting but halfway through the book it felt like you were with them on that mountain, great author would recommend this book to any type of reader
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Summary: AMAZING!
Review: THIS BOOK IS ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ. THE THINGS WE COMPLAIN ABOUT IN EVERY DAY LIFE SEEM SO TRIVIAL AFTER YOU READ THIS STORY OF SURVIVAL. WHEN YOU FINISH THIS BOOK YOU WON'T SEE YOUR LIFE IN THE SAME WAY AGAIN. IT'S UNFORGETTABLE.
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