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A review by paigelindsay89
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight by Jay Barbree
3.0
This was a pretty amazing first hand look into Neil's early life and more interestingly everything that led up to the race to the first moon landing. If you like space and history you would enjoy this.
I felt it breezed through some stuff pretty quickly. After the moon landing it breezed through the rest of Neil's life super fast. I don't think this should be looked at as a definitive biography. It focuses more on the big shuttle missions and space stuff.
The writing at times wasn't my favorite - I guess I wanted more description story and got more of a newsy feel - which makes total sense since the author was at the time one of the most prominent and looked to NBC corespondent and writer covering the space program.
So you really get a close up personal account of the space race. I highly recommend it if you like that type of thing.
I felt it breezed through some stuff pretty quickly. After the moon landing it breezed through the rest of Neil's life super fast. I don't think this should be looked at as a definitive biography. It focuses more on the big shuttle missions and space stuff.
The writing at times wasn't my favorite - I guess I wanted more description story and got more of a newsy feel - which makes total sense since the author was at the time one of the most prominent and looked to NBC corespondent and writer covering the space program.
So you really get a close up personal account of the space race. I highly recommend it if you like that type of thing.