Alive : The Story of the Andes Survivors

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Summary: Alive book review
Review: Alive. The best non-fiction survival book on Earth!! I have read many other survival books and this is the absolute best book I have read. The talent of the author show's it self in the book the whole time by having you glued to its pages. It is also written so that you are in the midst of all the action on the mountain. If you don't read this book then why should you even have a life!! It is all about a group of survivors that have to survive in the Andes where their plane crashed. Will the survivors survive the rest of the trip on the mountain or will the mountain claim their lives?
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Summary: Alive review by Zach
Review: "Alive" is one of the few non-fiction books that I have enjoyed reading. It includes a vivid description of how a group of people survived in one of the harshest climates on Earth. Once you get into the book, you can immediately relate to the characters because of how easy it would be to end up in a similar situation. I would recommend this book to anyone who would like to read about a true story with a gripping plot.

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Summary: Alive
Review: The book Alive is a true story about a rugby team surviving in the Andes Mountains after their plane crashed. They have no food and have to start eating the dead bodies from the crash. The book is very detailed with some very graphic parts. All the details can make this book a little slow at times but it keeps you interested and you want to see what happens next. It is a good book even with the slow parts and most people would like reading it.

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Summary: ALIVE review
Review: The book, "Alive" is a quality true story book. I gave it 4 stars because it is much longer than it should be. I liked the details the author gives to make the reader feel the emotion and pain that the characters faced. The fact that it is a true story makes the book more interesting to read because you get into it and want to see what they encounter next. It is a good book to read, I recommend reading it.

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Summary: Survival!!!
Review: Alive is a great book if you like non-fiction. It goes into a lot of detail about everything that happened to the rugby team that crashed into the Andes Mountains. I like this book because it was a true story and showed the stregth and effort of the survivors.

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Summary: Great Story!!!!
Review: Alive, by Piers Paul Reed, is a great book. It is a story about a rugby team from Argentina. They travel to a tournament in Chile, and their plane crashes in the Andes. To make a long story short, they have to start eating the dead to survive. It is a great story of team work, and survival. If you can get by the cannbablism, and the struggles, it is a great book. The story drags on a little bit, but that is expected, because it is a true story. I enjoyed the book a lot though. It showed me the true great side of humanity.

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Summary: Alive
Review: Alive was a good book about survival. The only thing that I didn't like about the book was that it went into more detail than it needed, and that made the book boring to read. Another thing were the names, they were difficult to pronouce and it slowed down the reading. Besides that it was a good book. If you like survival stories then this is the book for you.

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Summary: Gets you off your seat
Review: The book alive is a good book that has alot of adventure in it. it keeps you guessing what is going to happen next. the book talks about a rugby team that travels to chile for a tournament and then end up crashing in the Andes mountains. They don't have much to live on so they start having to each other to survive. the book is pretty graphic and it goes into alot of details but i thought it was a pretty good book at times it got into too many details but all in all it was a well written book.

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Summary: great story... average novel
Review: Alive is the remarkable story of a Rugby team whose plane wrecks in the Andes mountains, taking about half the lives of the passengers. The powerful story portrays excellent examples of teamwork and perseverance in the fight for survival. Though this is an interesting read, I found the authors style to be very unorganized and boring. The introduction of the story, tells about the history of rugby and its existence in this teams home country. It is very boring and not really relevant. Following this dull intro, the book then takes you on a wild ride through a exulting, horrifying plane crash. This leaves many of the passengers dead and injured. After this I found the book very anticlimactic. Though it was very interesting and there were parts of the story that were exciting and very well written, I found that the author added too much dull information which could have easily been left out. The end result appears to be a book not meant for the thrill seekers, but instead, a shelf ridden book, anxiously awaiting it's intermittent rainy day use.

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Summary: A Great Non-fiction Novel
Review: "Alive" is a great non-fiction book. The author makes it feel like you are in the airplane in the Andes lost as one of the survivors. The hands of the book squeeze the stomach making "Alive" come right into your living room. After watching the movie, I strongly recommend reading the book instead. The book is easy yet disturbing at times. That's only because of the fabulous writing of Piers Paul Read. If you want to read one of the best non-fiction novels ever written read "Alive," the story of the Andes survivors!