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Evaluación: - Watered down formula = recipe for malnutrition
I am a believer in Christ, his resurrection and his atonement for the sins of all. This book is aimed at babes and doubters but it takes Paul's milk versus meat admonition too far. This is watered down formula --a recipe for malnutrition. Get out your Bible and get on your knees and ignore evangelical inventions and interpolations. God lives!!

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Evaluación: - Excellent
This book is excellent. It puts a lot of evidence into perspective about the case for Jesus. He is Risen!

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Evaluación: - Strong Influence on my faith
I have always been a believer of God but this book put a solid foundation under my feet. I originally read it in order to have an "answer" for my son's questions and was surprised to find that it had a great effect on re-igniting my passion for the Christ. I bought the CD's to pass along.

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Evaluación: - Love this book!
The evidence presented is compelling. Excellent book for those who just want the facts.

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Evaluación: - Case for what?
History and science never provided proof that Christ even existed and I see people arguing here whether he resurrected!?

I do not think Jesus existed to begin with, we have lot's of proves of Pharaohs, Persians, many Mediterranean civilizations, Hindu kingdoms all of them thousands of years before Christ and still, absolutely no evidence of Christ's existence.

Please, just do not tell me Bible proves something, it's just a funny religious book as any other.

That being said, I am not some aggressive atheist, I just love the truth more than brainwashing & dogma.

Precio de Lista: $29.95
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Evaluación: - The Circuit
This book makes us remember what the American Dream is, that there is freedom for everyone here, and freedom does not discriminate.

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Evaluación: - A story that touches your heart
The CIRCUIT is about the life of a boy named Panchito who illegally crosses the Mexican border into California with his family of four. He and his family work picking cotton and strawberries, to topping carrots, then moving back to pick cotton again. Panchito's family has to move from one labor camp to the next labor camp to keep working all summer and winter to just have enough money to get them through the year.

My favorite character in this book was Panchito because he was determined to go to school and learn English. When he enrolled in first grade he did not know any English and everyone laughed at him for that. He made a friend that knew a little Spanish and started to learn English. In the sixth grade he started to write down spelling rules and English words in a notepad that he always kept in his shirt pocket.

I liked this book because it is a great way to see how a migrant family lives and how they live without getting caught by the border patrol. Throughout ... Leer Más

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Evaluación: - Must read
My niece was assigned to read this book at UCSanta Barbara. She shared it with me and I could NOT put it down. It ended as a cliffhanger and I wanted more! She told me there was a sequel so I immediately went to the first,second and finally third book store and found the sequel. Once finished, I wanted more! Another cliffhanger. That is when I went on Amazon to order the first book for my kids to read and then the third.Now I want to meet this professor. I so enjoyed reading about his life.

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Evaluación: - The Circuit
What's amazing is that this is a true story, true excerpts from the author's childhood. They are written without fluff and cheese, but the emotion is still strong and real. I like how it is written in the form of individual stories--somehow it makes these events all the more poignant. It's real, harsh, and opens eyes to the lives of migrant workers.

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Evaluación: - La pura verdad-the whole truth
This is a great family book.I am American Caucasian and my husband is a Mexican imigrant.We read this story out loud to one another,and while it is writen (very well) in simple English so that any reader could probably read it,we enjoyed it imensly.
I can tell you that so much of this story corrolated with our friends and family and was very touching,but brought on a lot of chuckles as well.A great family read.

Precio de Lista: $17.99
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Evaluación: - eat, pray, love
This autobiographical tale of the writer, who is in my opinion an emotionally unstable woman, at age thirty-five spends a year in three different countries, following a very bad break up and divorce from a marriage. She goes to Italy, a country rich in art, history, music, architecture and incredible scenery, and spends her time ignoring all of this to gorge herself on rich Italian food. Then she travels to India to spend time in an Ashram to contemplate and find God. Finally she flies to Bali, in Indonesia, to study with a medicine man. In this place she meets a man with whom she falls in love.
In this present world there are many love affairs which go sour, many marriages that fall apart, many couples who separate,and many who seek solace and peace with God. However, most people do not have the luxury of traveling to other lands or exotic places to "find" themselves. I felt the author was just taking an ego trip but because she has a reputation as a writer, was able to have her work published. ... Leer Más

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Evaluación: - Que Facil!
Trabaje en warehouse de una libreria muy famosa, y antes de que saliera ala venta yo ya le habia dado una revisada, cuando salio ala venta fueron muchos ejemplares los que se vendieron mucha la demanda. Me parese que cuando uno tiene dinero puede darse ese lujo, asi que es muy facil ir por el mundo sin preocuparse de lo monerario y adquirir experiencias de esos viajes.
Si yo tubiera dinero haria lo mismo, y me enamoraria en francia, o espa~a, y ahora la autora del libro con todo lo que a vendido se puede ir a la india las veces que quiera y adquirir mas experiencias con todo el dinero que hizo del libro pero esta vez lo tiene por las personas que compraron el libro, y la mayoria fueron de bajos recursos, recordemos que en el mundo hay mas pobresa que gente rica.......... Yo ahorro y ahorro y no puedo ir ni a la playa.
No creeo que sea tan bueno el libro, me parece ami, soy una gran compradora de libros, es en lo que mas gasto mi dinero, pero este no lo compre gracias a que lo hize en mi ... Leer Más

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Evaluación: - Terrible translation
I read the book in Spanish, it easy for me since is my mother language. I found the book very bored and I thing the translation made was poor, very poor.
I won't recommend to read this book in Spanish.

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Evaluación: - Mas de lo que imaginaba
Tenia muchos deseos de leer el libro despues de que vi los previews de la pelicula, no queria gastar mucho dinero asi que ordene uno de los libros mas economicos. Tuve una gran sorpresa al recibirlo, es nuevo, esta en perfectas condiciones y la edicion es de muy buena calidad. Estoy muy conforme con mi compra y ya estoy buscando nuevos titulos para mis futuras ordenes.

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Evaluación: - Libros que cambian vidas
Estos son de los libros que te hacen pensar y que cambian vidas. Ha sido divertido leerlo. Yo tambien quiero viajar por el mundo y leyendo este libro he viajado de gratis.

Evaluación: - Awesomo
"Nostromo" is arguably Conrad's best novel. The book is about silver, which in and of itself is trivial, but Conrad uses this simple theme to connect his most well-developed, meticulously written novel set in the imaginary town of Sulaco, a mining town and port in the imaginary South American country of Costaguana. And as expected, Conrad's silver has an affect on the people of Costaguana that is anything but trivial.

Sulaco is physically isolated from the surrounding countries; on one side by a bay that is difficult to navigate and on the other by a mountain range whose pinnacle is the "Mighty Higuerota". Within this context Conrad is able to instill the physical isolation of Sulaco into the persona of his characters. By doing this Conrad creates a greater sense of identity, loneliness and despair in his characters, much moreso than in his other novels. Conrad relates the physical settings to the thoughts of his characters throughout the novel and it creates a very dark picture of the human ... Leer Más

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Evaluación: - Bad edition
The flow of this edition is poor as the text is broken poorly. You will find full lines followed by a brief partial phrase, followed by a full line, followed by a brief partial phrase, etc., etc.

In my opinion it is a shame a great piece of literature is presented in such a way. I would not pay the .99 cents over again.

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Evaluación: - Who has the silver? Or: the somber imbecilities of political fanatism
`Nostromo' was one of Conrad's most political and least personal stories. It is probably not one of his best, but it offers a lot of issues for discussion and disagreement.

JC's first hand experience in South and Central America was limited and dated. Therefore he had to build on knowledge acquired from books. He used travel reports and memories of independence wars and dictatorships and revolutions. I am by no means an expert on South American history, but from what I remember of Latino writers like Garcia Marques or Asturias, Conrad sounds fairly authentic in a generic way. (I would be interested in differing opinions here.)

His political world in the international dimension was firmly based on 3 antis: anti- Russian, -German and -American. While the first two are natural for a Pole of the time and not so relevant for this novel (but very much for some of his others), his anti-American stance is of a less automatic nature and needs a closer look.
Conrad's basic stance was pro ... Leer Más

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Evaluación: - One of the great novels of literature
I am in the midst of reading, or re-reading, the major seven or eight works of Joseph Conrad. I have not previously reviewed any of them because of a general reticence as regards the "canon" of Western literature. But I am departing from that practice for NOSTROMO, which I just finished reading for the second time in my life, because I don't believe it is fully appreciated for what it is -- truly, one of the great novels of English, indeed Western, literature (not that my weighing in on the matter is likely to change things).

The setting of the novel -- the South American republic of Costaguana -- is a staggering achievement of imagination and research. Conrad's maritime novels were based on years of personal experience, but his experience of South America was limited to only three or four days at two ports in Venezuela. The scope of NOSTROMO is epic; it is a large canvas indeed. An apt comparison in literature might be Tolstoy's "War and Peace". But NOSTROMO also has characteristics of Dostoevsky, ... Leer Más

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Evaluación: - Defects in this Kindle edition
This Kindle edition of Nostromo has many instances of a phrase misplaced in the text, requiring the reader to unscramble a sentence or two. While this is generally possible to figure out, it interrupts the flow of ones reading. Since there are many Kindle editions of this title, I suggest that you purchase a different one than this:

Nostromo, A Tale Of The Seaboard +

Evaluación: - Sloppy e-book (The Right Stuff)
Shame on the publisher (Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) for the sloppy production of this ebook. The Right Stuff To care so little about the quality of their product is an insult to both the author and his readers. Don't buy the ebook version until the publisher makes it right.
The original book, as written by Tom Wolfe, deserves 5 stars. It's highly entertaining as well as informative. In this review, I'm only rating the quality of the ebook which has at least five dozen scanning errors, some of which are confusing and make it impossible to figure out what the author intended. Until the publisher fixes it, spend your money on something else. There's plenty of quality ebooks available.

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Evaluación: - HOW THE FUTURE BEGAN...
Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" is a fascinating, in-depth and personal account of the test pilots who pushed the envelope between 1947 and 1963. From Chuck Yeager's historic flight in the Bell X-1, through the seven missions of Project Mercury, and concluding with Yeager's near-catastrophic flight in the NF-104, the book is an enthralling look at the early days of NASA, and of the men and women who made it happen! Of particular interest are passages that didn't make it into the terrific film adaptation, including the failed attempt of astronauts such as Jim Lovell and Pete Conrad to be among the seven; NASA's "shunning" of Scott Carpenter after what they viewed as a near-disastrous flight of Aurora 7, and how Wally Schirra's flight of Sigma 7 was seen as proof of Carpenter's messy handling of the fuel, and; the near-success of test pilots outside of NASA to successfully put a man in space before the first Mercury flights. A thrilling book for readers of history and of good storytelling, I highly recommend it!
Grade: ... Leer Más

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Evaluación: - the right stuff - the right stuff!
I have read The Right Stuff three times (a previous copy). I made the mistake of loaning the book to somebody but I don't recall who. I consider it such a "must have" book in my library that I have replaced it.

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Evaluación: - Great book, KINDLE version FULL OF ERRORS
Great book, completely flubbed by Amazon. Is it so hard to run a spell check on a Kindle manuscript before publishing it? This book is filled with ridiculous OCR screwups: letters cl being turned into a nonsensical d, for instance. And there are a lot of them. Amazon needs to fix this book and send us all an updated version that doesn't hurt our eyes or our brains.

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Evaluación: - One of the most entertaining nonfiction books I've read
Wolfe really keeps you on the edge of your seat, and despite being accused of taking liberties with the literal truth still creates a book that will teach you a great deal about the history of the early days of the American space program. This is one of the only nonfiction books I've read that reads like a well written novel. I will be diving further into the Wolfe cannon because this book was so good.

Precio de Lista: $26.95
Ud. Ahorra: $9.16 (34%)
a partir de 09/08/2010 09:30 PDT

Precio de Lista: $12.99
Ud. Ahorra: $4.45 (34%)
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Evaluación: - Mexican Authors
When the author made a character disappear In Cien Años de Soledad I liked it. The author of Páramo over uses the device.

Ben A. Esparza

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Evaluación: - Pedro Paramo
Didn't really know what to expect, and this was a disappointment. He's a good writer, but the subject matter simply does not fascinate me.

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Evaluación: - Yellowish
It's a very good book to read but I expected the book to be in better conditions.

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Evaluación: - Awesome
I was in search of this book for last couple of years and finally got it here at Amazon. The quality of print is great and I take this opportunity to thank Amazon for doing this great service.

Regards,
Anirban Biswas.

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Evaluación: - Rulfo's Pedro Paramo
In this 1955 Mexican novella, a young man, Juan Preciado, promises his dying mother that he will find his father, the Pedro Páramo of the title, and claim his birthright. Juan has no independent memories of his father. His mother fled her abusive and loveless marriage shortly after Juan's birth and raised him by herself in a city far away from his father's ranch.

After burying his mother, Juan sets off for Comalá where his father's ranch is located. When he reaches his destination, he finds an eerie, nightmarish town, inhabited entirely by ghosts. Comalá is a veritable graveyard where the dead relive their intolerable memories. All of those memories revolve around Pedro Páramo, the corrupt local boss, who turned Comalá into a hell on earth.

Juan Rulfo's writing is surreal and dreamlike. This novel reads as if the main character is experiencing a nightmare. The narrative contains many abrupt shifts in time and frame of reference. These rapid shifts are disorienting, and greatly enhance the novel's ... Leer Más

Evaluación: - Cajas de Carton
"Un día nosotros vamos a cruzar la frontera." Eso es que la madre de Fernando dije a él cuando casi todos en su pueblo cruzaron la frontera a los estados unidos. Su familia es muy pobre y tenía 3 niños y 2 padres para dar comida. Cuando ellos legan a los estados unidos no tenían trabajo para 2 semanas. No se vi como pueden vivir sin eso moneda. Su familia recoger algodón en campos los del sur de California.
Imagina viviendo en un país y no pueden hablar el lenguaje nacional. En escuela, no entender su maestra hablando a los otros niños. En los corredores, los niños riendo atrás de su espalda. Los niños siempre ser intimidando a ti. Ir a escuela con ropa de segunda mano. Eso es la vida de Fernando Jiménez.
Me gusta el me gusta el libro mucho, es muy interesante. Sentí que era allí con Fernando cuando cruzó la frontera y sus situaciones en la escuela. Era un poquito triste cuando terminaron ese libro. El libro es un poquito raro pero soy feliz para leer el segundo en esa serie. ¿Sabes de qué es el ... Leer Más

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Evaluación: - Beware this edition is NOT bilingual
I got this book and it's SPANISH ONLY, not bilingual like the description says! Beware!

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Evaluación: - Una "Nueva" Vida
El libro "Cajas de Cartón" trata sobre un niño llamado Panchito cuya familia inmigra a los Estados Unidos. La familia era de solamente cuatro miembros, ellos llegan a California y tuvieron qué esperar dos semanas para poder empezar a trabajar; esas dos semanas pasaron y empezaron a trabajar en la pizca de algodón. Es aquí donde empieza su "nueva" vida.
Al pasar las semanas, los papás de Panchito tuvieron otro bebé a quien llamaron "Trampita". Aunque ellos no estaban muy bien establecidos económicamente, seguían teniendo niños y la familia seguía creciendo. La familia llegó a tener ocho miembros en total. Algunos de los niños iban a la escuela con Panchito, mientras Roberto, el mayor, trabajaba e iba a la escuela pero la mayor parte del tiempo trabajaba.
La familia vivió muchas experiencias, algunas divertidas y otras tristes. Sí te gustaría saber lo qué pasa realmente en el libro, leélo! Te gustará, porqué es un libro que atrae tu atención y es una historia única. ¡No hay ninguna historia igual ... Leer Más

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Evaluación: - Cuentos que dignifica al campesino migrante
Este conjunto de cuentos , es un verdadero deleite para cualquier lector y especialmente para los inmigrantes latinoamericanos que llegan a los EEUU a esforzarse y donde tiene que adaptarse a una nueva realidad. Francisco Jimenez, expresa y nos revela la realidad de los trabajadores de la tierra desde la vision de su ninez , sin perder la inociencia y relatandonos la realidad. Muy estimulantes cuentos, ahora continuare con el siguiente libro de Francisco Jimenez, orgullo latino!!!

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Evaluación: - buen libro con mal fin así que solo cuatro estrillas
Es cuento de una familia méxicana que vienen a EE UU en 1950's a hallar trabajo. Es se dijo a el niño y es en parte una autobiografía. Es un libro corto de 120 paginas y facil a leer. Un buen libro para el joven pero no tiene fin feliz. Quiza el autor usted quiere a leer su segundo libro que es una continuación de este cuento.

Evaluación: - One of the best movies, EVER!
This film puts me in a trance outside of time and everything familiar, and it feels incredible. I have watched this movie more than any other movie and it never gets old. I saw it 15+ times in the theater and watched it many more times on DVD. Saying that, it is still hard to describe this movie. Visually STUNNING, from start to finish each scene is a visual masterpiece, a work of art. The soundtrack and music compliments the visuals perfectly, and the song of the closing scene is moving and inspirational. There are amazing observations on the human condition, romance, love, death and POETRY, and it still leaves a sense of mystery. This movie has made me a lifelong die-hard fan of Tilda Swinton. Did I mention I Love this movie?

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Evaluación: - 2010 version: Unique, fascinating, humorous and just a pleasure to watch.
A genderbending film that pays its respect to Virgina Woolf's original work. Sensually witty and highly enjoyable!

English author, essayist, publisher Virginia Woolf, was a key figure in modernist literature. As a woman who was inspired by avante garde which influenced her original work, she was a woman who was not only intellectual but a woman who was an individual that walked the beat of her own drum. From being married to a man and having an affair with aristocrat and English author/poet Vita Sackville-West.

In 1928, Virginia Woolf wrote a semi-biographical novel based on the life of Vita titled "Orlando". One of Woolf's most accessible novels and eventually a novel that would receive its film adaptation in 2008 courtesy of writer/director Sally Potter ("The Tango Lesson", "The London Story", "The Gold Diggers"). The film would go on to receive a 1992 Academy Award nomination for Costume Design and Production Design.

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"Orlando" is presented in 1:85:1 anamorphic widescreen. ... Leer Más

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Evaluación: - ... because this is England, everyone pretends not to notice
No lover in the world ever wrote a valentine more exquisite than Virginia Woolf's tribute to her lover Vita Sackville-West, "Orlando."

And few movie adaptations are as coyly, exquisitely lovely as the 1992 movie adapted from that book, a magical-realism tale about a perpetually youthful, charming hero/ine who traverses three centuries and both genders. Tilda Swinton has the right combination of androgyny and intelligence to perfectly embody Orlando, and director Sally Potter gilds and perfumes every set and costume.

Orlando (Swinton) was born a young aristocratic man in the time of Queen Elizabeth I, and when the dying monarch visited his home she became his new court favorite. She also bid him, "Do not fade, do not wither, do not grow old."

And Orlando did as she said. With the death of the queen and his father, Orlando's passionate, curious personality attracted many women -- and during the Great Freeze he fell in love with Sasha, a mercurial Russian princess (Charlotte Valandrey) who enthralled him, ... Leer Más

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Evaluación: - ORLANDO: A Film that Defies Categorization
ORLANDO is not one of Virginia Woolf's better known novels, and with good reason. In its gender-bending themes, one is never quite sure what to make of it. Director Sally Potter took this amorphous quality and transferred it to the screen by re-writing both script and plot until the film and the book have long since parted company. What remains is a cinematic masterpiece that either dares the viewer to comprehend it or defies him. In the real world, one might think that anyone who was publically immortal might have world reknown or anyone who changed genders in an age bereft of transgender surgery might be equally famed. And certainly one who did both would be a superstar in any age. But in Potter's view of England that spans four centuries from 1600 to 2000 the general public seems to take such astonishing news in stride, and that may be the point. We are not supposed to take ORLANDO under any prism of realism nor are we meant to endure a willing suspension of belief. Rather, Potter intends us to view the panorama of English history in ... Leer Más

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Evaluación: - Disapointing
Orlando was a man and then an ageless woman who gave birth. It jumped about and was very confusing. I thought it quite rediculous and unbelievable.

Evaluación: - A mixed review
the first and last chapters were philosophical reviews of life (comparing the exciting aspects of flying which makes life seem so vibrant) against the mundane life of bureaucrats and peasants who live and die without seeing the world (as he does from the air). A line in the closing chapter is poignant: the infant that he is sitting next to has the potential to be anything and everything; but due to its parents and its probable future life, it wont ever realize its potential (they killed Mozart).

the second to last chapter is a number of stories of the war in Spain (Franco; remember this was written about the late 1920s to the 1930s), with people fighting; it's a social commentary on war from the perspective of life and death (and has NOTHING to do with flying). This is a very long chapter (50 pages out of a 229 page book) and I was disappointed because I was'nt into reading about this.

all the other chapters were of flying (and crashing, such as surviving in the desert), were good, and I wished there were more of them. ... Leer Más

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Evaluación: - Fabulous adventure
After reading this thrilling autobiographical account of the authors adventures it is easy to understand why this book has been rated by National Geographic as one of the top 10 adventure books of all time. The reader is treated to a series of dangerous adventures including airplane crashes, desert survival in Libya, flying a mail plane above and through the Andes and Pyrenees mountain ranges, visiting inhospitable regions of Chili and Argentina, and observing up close the Spanish Civil War.

All the way through the book the author gives us his thoughts about men and mankind and what drives some to risk their lives for their beliefs, and how that impacts all of us.

A great read. Highly recommended.

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Evaluación: - Living defines Man
Faced with the absurdity of life, French existentialists threw their hands up in the air and gave up. They failed utterly to place man within the universe. Saint-Exupery lived through the same depressing times as did Sartre and Camus feeling just as lost as they did but he never gave up on living. Man defines himself by the act of living.

One of the most famous passages describes how Henri Guillaumet made his way out of the Andes after a plane crash. Walking several days and nights through the snow, he refuses to stop because he knows his comrades and his wife believe that if he lives, he walks. He fell once and accepted he would die buried in the falling snow. He got up so he could wedge himself on a rock and that way his body would be found in the spring. That way his wife would be able to collect the insurance money without having to wait the statutory seven years after a mere disappearance. When Guillaumet reached the rock, he simply continued walking. "What I did , no animal would have done." said Guillaument when found, broken ... Leer Más

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Evaluación: - This book is a #1 winner, a book that needs a comeback in our society today!
I absolutely felt lifted above the earth, into the French author's big world view of 1936, as he spoke of his adventures and thoughts about life from the vantage point of an early aviator. Please read this book!

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Evaluación: - Just Superb
A short review.
You can't walk away from this true adventure book without feeling great about mankind, its accomplishments and its future.
Every young man with a future ahead of him should read it (and any young woman who can stand a book without any female characters).
The prose is simply beautiful, and I never thought I would say that about any book. The translator deserves a prize.

A second shorter piece at the end talks about the authors experience in observing the 1930's Spanish Civil War, between the fascists and the nationalists / socialists.
Shorter, as emotional and more readable than Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" - it deals with the same civil war. The fascists won.