Vengo de un avión que cayó en los montanas..."I come from a plane that fell into the mountains..." -Nando Parrado
Wow. Just wow. What an amazing story. I remember seeing Alive when it came out in theatres back in the early 90s (I think). I also remember the way it turned one of my friends into a vegan. All meat lost its appeal when she saw the film depiction of these starving men consuming the flesh of their dead brethren. Some might have problems reading about cannibalism, I didn't. In fact, the other elements of the story were far more interesting. In simple and honest prose, Parrado, one of the men who trekked out of the mountains in search of help, recounts the details of the plane crash in the Andes, and the resulting 72-day struggle of the men left behind to survive.
My takeaway from this book is that you should arrange the debris around the destroyed plane in the form of something - like a big old S.O.S. or some such message - so that it stands out to those who might fly overhead.
Favorite line: "Even here, even as we suffer, life is still worth living." -Arturo Nogueira
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I have put that on my list.
The book our club is reading this month is Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors. I have not started reading it. It is about the building of the Taj Mahal --fiction.
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