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Unbroken (Movie Tie-in Edition): A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand, Laura Hillenbrand
4.43 AVERAGE
4.46k reviews for:
Unbroken (Movie Tie-in Edition): A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand, Laura Hillenbrand
4.43 AVERAGE
Worth whatever you have to do to bed borrow or steal this book. Hillenbrand is a glorious writer, and this story of Zamperini and all of the POWs and soldiers of WWII is both horrifying and triumphant. I think that sounds cliche, but it is really true!
this is the story of Louis Zamperini who was a young Olympic athlete turned Japanese prisoner of war. Holy Shit. My jaw was dropped most of this audiobook. And I realized I couldn’t be eating while listen to it due to all of the shockingly gory details. Spoiler alert: he lived to be 97 years old!
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This book was even better than the movie. I really enjoyed how the book went deeper into what was happening during the war and the characters lives after the war. Highly recommend!
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Read for school, I think I prefer WW2 movies over books.
challenging
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hopeful
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tense
medium-paced
dark
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informative
inspiring
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dark
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inspiring
medium-paced
Would’ve been 5 stars if not for a few misgivings:
1. The ending felt rushed compared to the rest of the book, plus it was ruined for me by all the religious talk. I understand it was important to Zamparini’s life, but i do find it hard to believe that years of ptsd, alcoholism, domestic abuse, and turmoil was cured overnight after he saw two Billy Graham sermons in a tent. I’m sure his faith helped, but this seemed like an oversimplification and frankly a slap in the face to the thousands of other POWs suffering upon their return (i.e., doubt they were all cured by Jesus and magic sudden faith - what else helped people overcome the horrible things they went through? Seemed dismissive and as I said, an oversimplification).
2. The majority of the book focused on what was happening TO Zamparini. I would’ve liked to learn more about what was happening emotionally inside of him. I do recognize this was probably hard to do when the primary source is Zamparini himself, who no doubt wouldn’t have wanted to go too deep into that/uncover too much of the pain. But still, it got a tad repetitive when it was chapter upon chapter of “this happened to him, then this other horrible thing happened to him, then this even worse thing happened, etc etc” without many breaks telling us what was happening WITHIN him and how he managed to remain resilient for so long.
All in all, I still really enjoyed this and couldn’t put it down. I learned so much about the Pacific theater of WWII, of which I knew next to nothing about before reading this. Simply incredible and I would definitely recommend this
1. The ending felt rushed compared to the rest of the book, plus it was ruined for me by all the religious talk. I understand it was important to Zamparini’s life, but i do find it hard to believe that years of ptsd, alcoholism, domestic abuse, and turmoil was cured overnight after he saw two Billy Graham sermons in a tent. I’m sure his faith helped, but this seemed like an oversimplification and frankly a slap in the face to the thousands of other POWs suffering upon their return (i.e., doubt they were all cured by Jesus and magic sudden faith - what else helped people overcome the horrible things they went through? Seemed dismissive and as I said, an oversimplification).
2. The majority of the book focused on what was happening TO Zamparini. I would’ve liked to learn more about what was happening emotionally inside of him. I do recognize this was probably hard to do when the primary source is Zamparini himself, who no doubt wouldn’t have wanted to go too deep into that/uncover too much of the pain. But still, it got a tad repetitive when it was chapter upon chapter of “this happened to him, then this other horrible thing happened to him, then this even worse thing happened, etc etc” without many breaks telling us what was happening WITHIN him and how he managed to remain resilient for so long.
All in all, I still really enjoyed this and couldn’t put it down. I learned so much about the Pacific theater of WWII, of which I knew next to nothing about before reading this. Simply incredible and I would definitely recommend this
As great as everyone said, for sure. An amazing story, at one point I saw my Kindle said 50% read and I couldn't believe he had already gone through so much..I liked the style of writing as well, I think I'll check out Seabiscuit (her other book about the race horse).
Excellent, wonderful, and inspiring! What an amazing read!! I thought the story behind Louis' life was absolutely amazing. I couldn't believe the trials that this man went through and what he overcame in his life. Definiately a must read!!