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Pros
This outstanding story does more than just recount nasa's boldest mission. The book is extremely accurate with both people and technology, as well as how the geopolitical impacts of the mission.
Engaging, page-turner at times, keeps your interest. Words are inadequate to express how much i enjoyed this book. The rating is based on the book material and content.
The narration, by ray porter, is as good as it gets. The last line of the actual book is wonderful. Do yourself a favor and read this and all of his books. Ray porter.
Many today seem a bit blase about this. It is very informative and exhaustively researched.
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The book is over dramatized and factually incorrect at times. It is littered with false claims and factual incorrect claims. Thats just one of many historic and scientific inaccuracies.
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Its a highlight of my childhood along with the music
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Its probably just me but i am uncomfortable with dramatizing the personal side of of historical events
The cover was bent and the sellers sent me a new one very fast i returned the book with the bent cover only because i was givi... Read More
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“pageturner” is used far too often for oftentimes milquetoast and average books
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- This product had a total of 1,268 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 18 2023.
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The cover have a little wear down
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This book although historical in nature reads like a novel
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My feeling is that if one was to read just one book about the early space era i include apollo as early space era as i was twelve years old at the time of apollo 8 then that book has to be rocket men
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Good detail but not intrenched in minute facts
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While i knew of apollo 8s place in the chain i had not realized the number and magnitude of the critical decisions which were made in order for the trip to occur how and when it did
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I heard this author on the art of manliness podcast
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Reads like a hollywood movie script
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I read rocket men after reading an excerpt from tom wolfe’s the right stuff
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