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| Original Title: | The Right Stuff |
| ISBN: | 0553381350 (ISBN13: 9780553381351) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Pete Conrad |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Hardcover) (1980), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1979), Columbia Journalism Award (1980) |
Tom Wolfe
Paperback | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 4.24 | 41829 Users | 1476 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Right Stuff |
| Author | : | Tom Wolfe |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | October 30th 2001 by Bantam (first published 1979) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. History. Science. Space. Biography |
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When the future began...The men had it. Yeager. Conrad. Grissom. Glenn. Heroes ... the first Americans in space ... battling the Russians for control of the heavens ... putting their lives on the line.
The women had it. While Mr. Wonderful was aloft, it tore your heart out that the Hero's Wife, down on the ground, had to perform with the whole world watching ... the TV Press Conference: "What's in your heart? Do you feel with him while he's in orbit?"
The Right Stuff. It's the quality beyond bravery, beyond courage. It's men like Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of all and the fastest man on earth. Pete Conrad, who almost laughed himself out of the running. Gus Grissom, who almost lost it when his capsule sank. John Glenn, the only space traveler whose apple-pie image wasn't a lie.
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Ratings: 4.24 From 41829 Users | 1476 ReviewsAssess Containing Books The Right Stuff
I tried. I made it to p 100.The concept is actually pretty interesting. I did learn quite a few things about the test pilots, there were some laughs as well as a few cringes. I just suck at reading this genre. Wolfe is not holding my attention and every time I sit down to read this book I find some way of getting a different book into my hands. I wont rate this one because I read less than half. I would honestly give it three stars. It is just not the right time for me.I suck.I still defy anyone to read the first chapter, as Wolfe follows the path of a plane crash through the trees, and not be dazzled by his style.
Tom Wolfe's big and beautiful nonfiction romp makes for an absolutely A+ audiobook listen. While listening to Dennis Quaid's narration, I felt as if a gruff stranger had sat beside me at a bar, bought me a pint, and started in on some conspiratorial, you're-not-gonna-believe-it storytelling. There's definitely an air of the old guard letting you in on the secrets of their exalted reign, and it is a hell of a fun bit of storytelling. Wolfe somehow manages to make the writing seem conversational,
I loved this book. I've read it at least twice, and will probably read it again someday. Wolfe takes us into the lives of the Mercury 7 astronauts before they were selected and during their training. It's been years even since my re-read, but scenes still pop into my mind while I'm writing this. To me, that makes it a really special book.
I guess that I'm a product of my age in that I'm fascinated by the space program. I love the movie they made from this book, so I'm not sure why it never occurred to me to read this. I enjoyed it immensely. Wolfe's style is engaging and easily read, although his chapters are long. It's clear that he did a lot of research with his topic, too. He manages quite well to appear to be inside the astronauts' heads. Each of them is shown with his own personality, and those are in line with my other
I've probably read over a thousand books - I just earned my MA in History and am a writer who's headed to UC Berkeley in the fall - and The Right Stuff, along with the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, are in my top 10. Exhilarating, uncanny, and - unusual for Wolfe - concise. The man's range as a writer - going from drug-fueled hippie rebellion to death-defying test pilots with unquestioned loyalty to the state - remains virtually unprecedented. I'm re-examining Wolfe's body of work as I finish my
No better book has been written about flying or the space race. Tom Wolfe has what it takes, the bubbling enthusiasm and critical eye, to write properly about astronauts. The Right Stuff is about endurance, guts, reflexes, a cool head, and giant titanium testicles. It's about going up day after day in high performance jets that are trying their level best to kill you-and statistically will kill 23% of pilots in peacetime-and pushing them to the edge of the envelope and beyond. It's about sitting
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