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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: I highly enjoyed this book and would definately recommend it to anyone who wants an exciting read. Alive not only entices the reader with tons of detail but it catches the readers hearts by really showing what the survivers went through to survive. Each page is filled with emotion that overflows to the reader. A story of determination, hope, strength and love any person that reads this book will not be able to put it down. A must read for all with strong stomachs.
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Summary: A heart wrenching story!
Review: I truly think this book is very inspirational and exciting.
I had to read this book for my World Lit. and Comp. English class, and I am very glad i got the chance to read such a great novel. I had an awesome time doing the presentation, because I got the chance to see the rest of the class get interested in the book that I read.
The first chapter started out slowly, but was very informational. Going through the first chapter was well worth it, because the rest of the book brought me into the amazing adventures the survivors went through. It kept me on the edge of my seat, wanting to know what would happen next.
I would recommend this book for a more older audience: teenage on. The reason being, the book goes into fine detail. It brings you into some of the gruesome and overwhelming events that the survivors went through, before and after the rescue.
If reading a true, exciting story about a group of people giving their all to survive and having your emotional flow never stop, Alive is the book for you.
The book made me realize that anything is possible if you never give up!
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Summary: A heart wrenching story!
Review: I truly think this book is very inspirational and exciting.
I had to read this book for my World Lit. and Comp. English class, and I am very glad i got the chance to read such a great novel. I had an awesome time doing the presentation, because I got the chance to see the rest of the class get interested in the book that I read.
The first chapter started out slowly, but was very informational. Going through the first chapter was well worth it, because the rest of the book brought me into the amazing adventures the survivors went through. It kept me on the edge of my seat, wanting to know what would happen next.
I would recommend this book for a more older audience: teenage on. The reason being, the book goes into fine detail. It brings you into some of the gruesome and overwhelming events that the survivors went through, before and after the rescue.
If reading a true, exciting story about a group of people giving their all to survive and having your emotional flow never stop, Alive is the book for you.
The book made me realize that anything is possible if you never give up!
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Summary: incredible true story that is well written
Review: The 1993 movie Alive was shown over the weekend on TV, I decided to finally borrow this 1974 book from the library, and finished it quickly, I couldn't put it down. The novel is a well written account of the survival of 16 Uruguayan boys from a plane crash in the Andes in October, 1972. The author didn't dramatize or sensationalize the despair of the group and the bravery of some (it was unnecessary), instead it comes across as an objective account of the people involved in the plane crash. I enjoyed the parts about Uruguayan culture -- how family and religion are predominant, how their parents (the fathers organizing more searches and mothers seeking clairvoyants and religious miracles) were involved in the rescue long after the governments of Chile and Uruguay had given up. The movie did not show this side of the story at all.The boys themselves had their own sort of society in that valley in the Andes -- not everyone was helpful or had the instinct for survival and all of them had never been through this kind of hardship, but they made it work and their system kept 16 of them alive for 72 days. They had their share of so much bad luck (not knowing where they were, the expeditionaries took a longer/harder route to civilization; their parents had the right idea of their location a few times but looked elsewhere) and some good luck (they did not lose a single boy in their many expeditions). What got them through was a mixture of hope, love for their families, inventiveness and extreme stubborness -- all of which are admirable qualities and make their story worth telling.
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Summary: Alive: Survival in the Andes
Review: The book Alive survival in the Andes by Piers Paul Read was a very action pact book and was very well written. This story is about a rugby team and how they are on a flight over the mountain and the plane hits a couple of air pockets and ends up hitting one of it's wings on the side of the mountain. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes actions books or a good nonfiction story. The book did start off a little slow but picks right up. The more I read the less I wanted to put the book down. I hate to read and I loved reading this book. The book was interesting and detailed about what the people did while they where stuck on the mountain. I read this book for my World Lit. and Comp. English class and found it very easy to read. This book also taught me that given a bad situation you have to do whatever you can to survive because at that point in time, your survival is the most important thing. I also have much respect for these people and what they went through. The book helped me realized just how cold and how difficult it would be to survive up there even if your plane didn't go down, and you were just a mountain climber. I will tell all my friends about the book and would recommend it to anyone who is a reader because I think that it is such a well written book anyone would love it.
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Summary: ALIVE REVIEW
Review: The book alive was written by Piers Paul Read and it is a non-fiction story of the Andes survivors. Alive is a very horrifying and suspensfull book. I read it for my senior english class and I am glad I did. I found myself wondering what I would do in that situation. Would I live or die? I recommend this book to anyone who likes to stay on the edge of their seat.
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Summary: Survival Through Cooperation
Review: The story of the Andes plane crash and rescue has become world famous becuse the survivors ed on the bodies of the dead for over two months until two of them managed tho hike their way out of the mountains to alert rescuers. But what is striking about this story is the amazing amount of mutual cooperation among the survivors, most of whom were in their late teens and early twenties. That they managed for the most part to retain their civilized natures in the wake of utter hopelessness and through working together devised a workable plan to effect their own rescue is nothing short of remarkable. Nearly three decades have passed since the crash, but the compelling nature of this story has not diminihed in the slightest.
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Summary: Powerfully moving, emotional account of ultimate survival
Review: This book moved me. I have incredible respect and admiration for those survivors, and the book left me hungering for more information on their lives after the crash. You cannot finish this book without the feeling that any one of us would have done the same things to survive. The revulsion that I felt before reading the book, knowing that they had eaten human flesh, quickly was replaced by understandig and compassion for their plight.
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Summary: Alive Review
Review: This book was very exciting and entertaining. It kept me on the edge on my seat throughout the whole book. I could never put the book down. I had to read this book for Lit circles in my World Lit class and I'm glad I choose the book I did. It's weird to think something like this did happen and people got through it all, thats one of the things that kept me reading. The only thing I didnt like about this book was the characters were hard to get to know. I'd recommend this book to anyone who likes suspense. This book is interesting,thrilling and very exciting!!
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Summary: I GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS...
Review: Time has not diminished the drama of the tale of the Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes Mountains. Of the forty five people on the plane at the time of the crash, sixteen came down from the mountain about seventy days later with a saga of survival not easily forgotten.
Theirs is a journey born of tragedy and human endurance. The author unfolds a tale that is gripping in the telling, as enthralling as it is almost unbelievable. It is investigative reporting at its best, because it does not fail to convey the human drama and pathos behind the story of this remarkable struggle for survival high up in the Andes Mountains. Masterfully written, it is a well balanced narrative that takes great pains to ground the experience of the survivors in the context out of which it arose.
The plane had crashed in the Andes Mountains on Argentinian territory. It was an exercise in terror for those on the plane, as it barreled down the mountain, before finally coming to rest in a valley of snow high up in the Andes. Of the forty five persons on board, thirty two had initially survived the crash. Some, however, had sustained serious injuries. Time would not be their friend. Moreover, with little warm clothing (keep in mind that October is springtime in South America), the survivors were exposed to the extreme cold of the night air, high up in the Andes. Though spring, this still meant temperatures well below freezing. Damp, cold, and hungry, amid the anguished cries of the injured, thus began the first of many such nights.
By their tenth day in the Andes, the limited food supplies, which they had rationed with all the care of a miser, had virtually run out. Starving and ravenously hungry, they voiced what they all knew to be true, but had not dared to voice before. They must eat, or they would die. The only thing left for them to eat, however, was abhorrent and deeply repugnant to them. Digging deep into their conservative, religious souls, they found a way to justify actions that would have them transcend a new reality. Their fallen comrades would now provide the means of their sustenance. All eventually succumbed to this only means of survival.
This, while one of the most dramatic parts of their story, is just that, a part. Their survival entailed much more. They had to endure other deprivations. They had to survive the elements. They had to overcome a profound despair over being seemingly forgotten by the outside world. Ultimately, only sixteen were able to do so. How they did so will fascinate all readers of adventure literature. The means that they took to let the world know that they were still alive will astound even the most jaded of readers. It is an account of human endurance that is thought provoking and compelling, a quest to reconcile physical needs with the spiritual. It is, above all, a riveting testament to life.
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