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12/15/2013 12:38:26 PM EDT
Just finished this book by Laura Hillenbrand. Incredible story. I only hope I could be so forgiving of my captors in that situation. Really didn't like the Japanese for a few days after I finished it.
12/26/2013 5:47:26 PM EDT
[#1]
Best book I have ever read. I was the same- didn't like Japanese folks for awhile after I read it.
1/7/2014 6:35:50 PM EDT
[#2]
Great book. Awesome how men can survive the most brutal things and still have the motivation to carry on with guerrilla warfare even while inprisioned.  Goes to show that thru Christ any thing is possible. Even the forgiveness of those who persecute you.
1/8/2014 4:45:29 PM EDT
[#3]
Reading it now.  It's a page turner.  They just got back from the Wake Atoll raid and the author is explaining all the deaths and accidents in the Army Air Corp unrelated to combat.  Fascinating!
1/11/2014 2:56:29 PM EDT
[#4]
Very good book, it has been a while since I read it, but well worth reading!!
1/11/2014 2:59:34 PM EDT
[#5]
I loved the book and recommend it to everyone.  

My wife stopped in the first or second chapter.  She didn't like that he was a punk of a kid.  I told her to keep reading, he gets straightened out quick.  She never has.
1/12/2014 7:05:34 AM EDT
[#6]
I just downloaded this from Audible--It's my next read.  I'll start it today.
1/12/2014 5:23:54 PM EDT
[#7]
I could not put it down. Fastest I've ever read a book.
1/13/2014 6:17:35 AM EDT
[#8]
Great book, audiobook version was excellent as well. Its supposedly being made into a movie too. Hopefully Angelina Jolie, who's directing it, doesn't' fuck it up.
1/14/2014 7:52:16 AM EDT
[#9]
Got if for Christmas on a Saturday and finished it on Sunday.  Good book.
1/19/2014 7:25:41 AM EDT
[#10]
Great book.  I read it about a year or two ago when if first came out.  It kind of pissed me off when I found out that Louis Zamperini already wrote an autobiography called "Devil at my Heels".  I picked it up but still haven't read it yet.  

Just makes me wonder how much Laura Hillenbrand took from that book while writing Unbroken.
1/19/2014 11:30:26 AM EDT
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Same here started it this last Friday. Good so far!
1/26/2014 9:05:17 AM EDT
[#12]
Just finished it.  I actually drove home slower than normal AND sat in my garage for awhile so I could finish the read.  

Very good.  I'll mirror everything said above.

I'd forgive the japanese if they were my enemies/captors/tormentors, but still want to kill them.  

The statistics on survivor's rates between the european and Pacific theatre were my new faveorite facts; then the parts about non-combat related casulties.
1/26/2014 2:30:57 PM EDT
[#13]
Just finished this on audible, VERY good book!!! I really liked the story was pretty crazy in some parts. I don't know if I would be able to forgive someone like that though. That shows how great society was during that time..... Sure a huge difference between then and now. It makes us look like crap to come from a society like that to where we are today.