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Too much backstory of everyone even remotely involved, and their relatives. It was more backstory than actual storyline, and I didn't care for it.
Weirdly vacant and wildly out of perspective tale from the ragged end of World War II. Reads like an article from that time, as if narrated by Walter Winchell or some other newsreel announcer. Most interesting part of the book was the slight discussion of the New Guinea native tribal history and culture.
I enjoyed the book better after the plane crash and the story picked up about the survivors and their relationships with the island natives.
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Interesting story, which could have easily been cut down to a longish article instead. The book is weighed down by minute facts about anyone even remotely involved. Other things are omitted - the author apparently interviewed the natives in the present day, but hardly tells us anything about it. He has a weird fascination with the female survivor, Margaret Hastings, and her alabaster skin. Instead of just telling us that she used her underwear as bandages for her injuries, he goes on about her being "briefly topless" when removing her clothes, and then putting her pants back on "over her naked buttocks". Okay.
Great story, but maybe not as incredible as it claims to be.
Great story, but maybe not as incredible as it claims to be.
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hopeful
informative
inspiring
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I had no idea about this story. It is amazing what people will go through to rescue others, even at the risk of their own lives. Interesting to see the interactions between the natives and those who crashed into that remote, rugged, mountainous area.
The real mystery here is why Reese Witherspoon or Angelina Jolie haven't optioned and made this great little story into a film already.