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A review by alykat_reads
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read
medium-paced
4.0
This was quite the tale of their survival. They predicted after the crash that there's no way anyone could have survived the conditions on the mountain for one night, yet 16 of them survived for over 70 days in the Andes. They did what they had to do [cannibalism] in order to survive, and had they not done that, there would have been no survivors.
I didn't really care for how this was formatted - jumping between the survivors and their families' search for them. I also don't really know a better way to do it - besides write all of the survivors' story, then follow it with what the families did after. I also didn't personally care so much about what search tactics or who the families went to for guidance. It slowed the story down considerably. I could have just skipped those chapters I guess, but after a while it just got repetitive - some of the families didn't believe their children were dead and went to extreme lengths to do all they could to search for them. It wasn't the part of the story I was interested in, so could have taken it or left it from the book. I would lose motivation to read this when I came to one of their chapters, especially if things were starting to pick up with the crash survivors.
I did appreciate the map the author included, as I referenced it frequently throughout reading.
I didn't really care for how this was formatted - jumping between the survivors and their families' search for them. I also don't really know a better way to do it - besides write all of the survivors' story, then follow it with what the families did after. I also didn't personally care so much about what search tactics or who the families went to for guidance. It slowed the story down considerably. I could have just skipped those chapters I guess, but after a while it just got repetitive - some of the families didn't believe their children were dead and went to extreme lengths to do all they could to search for them. It wasn't the part of the story I was interested in, so could have taken it or left it from the book. I would lose motivation to read this when I came to one of their chapters, especially if things were starting to pick up with the crash survivors.
I did appreciate the map the author included, as I referenced it frequently throughout reading.