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Indlæser... Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyondaf Nancy Conrad
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This was a highly readable biography of an exciting character known primarily for his role in NASA and landing on the moon. What made it so readable for me was the brevity of the chapters, lasting at most five or six pages, while most are usually three or four. It also goes back and forth between two stories- one a chronological progression of his life, and the other his record-setting flight in a business jet later on in his life. Quite a good story of a very interesting man. ( ) Rocketman is subtitled "Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond" and purports to be a biography of Gemini and Apollo astronaut Charles 'Peter' Conrad Jr. Except it doesn't actually read like a biography. It reads more like a novel, in which Pete Conrad happens to be the main character. As a result, it offers little insight into its subject. Perhaps this is because the book was co-written by Howard Klausner, who is better known as the screenwriter for the film Space Cowboys. While that certainly means he's familiar with the material, writing a screenplay and writing a biography are not the same. A biography, for example, does not need a story. It doesn't require a three-act structure. And the character-arc is a function of the subject's life, and not something that is imposed by the biographer. See the rest of the review at: http://spacebookspace.blogspot.com/2009/04/rocketman-nancy-conrad.html ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
HE WAS THE THIRD MAN TO WALK ON THE MOON - AND THE FIRST TO DANCE ON IT. HE WAS THE ROCKETMAN. For Pete Conrad, it was all about the ride. Whether he was hotdogging at Mach 2, test-flying every supersonic jet the Navy developed (and some they shouldn't have), orbiting the Earth at almost twenty thousand miles per hour, or redlining his Corvette, he loved pushing the envelope. Pete wasn't the squeaky-clean astronaut poster boy. He was the guy every NASA pilot wanted to go to happy hour with after work and the man they would kill to fly with. And Pete had a natural outspokenness that caused him to wash out of the Mercury program. But the 'Comeback Kid' roared back - flying two Gemini missions, walking on the Moon as commander of Apollo 12, commanding the first Skylab, and logging more time in space than all the original astronauts combined. This is a surprisingly candid insider's view of the greatest ride in history- America's glorious race to the stars, as seen through the eyes of a real space cowboy. No library descriptions found. |
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