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Cargando... Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival (2009 original; edición 2009)por Norman Ollestad
Información de la obraCrazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival por Norman Ollestad (2009)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. At the age of eleven, Ollestad was the only survivor of a plane crash that claimed the life of his father.Two plots of the author's life - one is the relationship with his father and growing up in Malibu and the other is him as the sole survivor in a small plane crash. Each chapter goes back and forth and soon you understand how they are related, as the strength and lessons his father taught him helped Ollestad to survive. I tend to like books more when I like or can associate with the characters. In this book, I didn't like the portrayal of Norman Ollestad's mother, his mother's boyfriend, the father, the father's girlfriend, or the description of Norm's teenage years. And while a plane crash is a horrible experience, especially when the pilot, the father, the father's girlfriend all perish, and the boy is the lone survivor, the survival story is very minor compared to the story of the boy's youth and upbringing. Also limiting my enjoyment was the fact that I listened to this as an audiobook, and generally don't care much for books read by the author. Professional readers seem to bring much more to the story. Overall, the book was a little more disturbing than interesting. Wat een heerlijk boek om te lezen. Je weet van te voren al hoe het afloopt, maar ondanks dat, blijft het een spannend en avontuurlijk boek. Gelukkig is het boek zo ingedeeld dat je aan het eind niet alleen maar een en al drama hebt. En heeft de schrijver een mooi balans gevonden tussen toen en nu. Heb het in een ruk uitgelezen en baalde ervan als ik het neer moest leggen. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Set amid the spontaneous, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, this riveting memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose, recalls Ollestad's childhood and the magnetic man whose determination and love infuriated and inspired him--and ultimately saved his life. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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First, the author decides to use this alternating chapter format that I don't think did anything for the pacing. One chapter would be about the plane crash and the quest for survival. The next chapter would be backstory, which focused primarily on the relationship between young Norman and his father.
Second, while it should be really interested to read about how an 11 year old survives on a freezing cold mountain -- it just wasn't. The emotion isn't there. There's a lot of details that physically describe the mountain in an effort to help the reader picture the action - - but I never actually got a good, clear mental image.
The best part of the book (for me) was the parenting questions it raised. Norman's father had a huge zest for life that he clearly wanted to share with his son. And his method of sharing was cajoling little Norman to do some pretty risky stuff, like back country skiing, surfing, etc. The book raises questions of how this style of parenting played into Norman's survival of the plane crash and whether it really is a good way to parent.
Norman draws his own conclusions and that provides the theme that ties the whole book together. The content on this book was interesting enough to keep me reading, but the writing really didn't do it justice compared to other survival stories I've read. Just a ho-hum for me overall. ( )