Good Story for My Return to Non-fiction.
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I hadn't read non-fiction in years but used to enjoy an occasional sci-fi/fantasy read.  This was a good one.  I got it free on Kindle and devoured it in three sessions.  I plan to read the sequel.  I was glad the style compared to Brian Aldiss' STARSHIP, (being a plausible dystopian take on the "real" world, rather than a weird other place where familiar physics don't exist).  I don't remember reading a book where each chapter is a first person narrative by someone other than the preceding chapter, but I quickly adapted to it.  The author does a nice job of blending a description of the Colorado front range into her plot.
2411653
I enjoyed this very much.  Both the history and the story were fascinating.  I learned a few things from it.
4222109
The book is quite interesting to read since I have no actual knowledge of the topic.  The author is able to get my imagination going and keep my interest in the topic with stories and descrpitive words and makes me believe I was there during some of the advendutes.  Good Read.
4364153
I like this book. It is back to good story telling from Mayberry and the characters are good. I like the fact that charactors from other books have been brought in. Not a lot of politics and political commentary like some of his latest stories, which is good.
254433
it has been a while since I have read some good modern warfare ficiton. This is a good tale and well told.
1568593
I wouldn't call it great literature, but a well told story.  I would call A Time To Kill  graduate level writing and this book undergraduate. Nevertheless I really enjoyed the story and will read more by this author
3267192
I enjoyed the stories a lot, until the author explained how he took liberties with timeline, people, etc.

I thought it was great non-fiction, but it turned out to be better than average fiction.  I suspect the true events of the actual people are a much more powerful story.
2808087
I liked hearing about the war from the British perspective. The author is a good story teller and very genuine.
3914527
I am considering a MUCH shorter through hike and this book was recommended to me.  It is a good story and gave me some ideas that I may have neglected before.
2394758
I liked the fact that you were on tenterhooks as to wether or not JR would enter the story. It kept my interest at a high level.
157420
Anyone who  likes non fiction will enjoy this book. The way the author describes the events in this book is real.
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I enjoyed reading this book and have used it as a jumping off point to more in depth history books.
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I read this book because it was a book club pick.  I'm not a fan of non-fiction in the first place; that said, a 3 star rating is a good rating for me.
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I was uncertain when trying to categorize this book on my Kindle to classify it as biography or as historical fiction, knowing that it was a true story based on the lives of real people.  I went with biography (as that way I didn't have to create a new category), but I think probably historical fiction is actually a better match.  The basics of the story actually happened, but of course after all this time I suspect that much of the dialog has been invented.

This is the story of Lois Cutler who was a WASP during WWII and a handful of her friends.  The book tells how they came to get into the program and some about their training in Sweetwater Texas.  There is also some romantic interest, both for Lois before the war and for some of her bunkmates during the training.

I especially liked the parts about Lois's early life in Philadelphia and Atlantic City, and her courtship days.  These are times and places I have not encountered so much in my other reading.  The little background pieces on the other girls in the program are interesting as well, showing the different backgrounds of the young women who signed up to be WASPs during the war.

I do feel the book could have benefitted from more stringent editing beforehand - there are a couple of places in the middle where it appears that the intent was to move a passage from one place to another but it was not deleted from the first place.  Also I occasionally got lost in the dialog during some of the arguments; there were not a lot of "he said - she said" indicators, (probably just as well) so in some of the fast-paced discussions I was not sure which party was talking some of the time.  Of course, some of this may have been due to the font size I was using on my Kindle Touch, which is mainly where I read this book; when I looked at some of the same passages on the Kindle Fire they were formatted a little better and it was easier to tell where one argument left off and the next one began.

All in all though this was a fun read and I recommend it.
3745304
I enjoy reading these true stories which remind us of our life used to be and how our lives have changes over the years.  A good read if you enjoy this type of non fiction.
1635384
Geared towards non-fiction but has useful tips for fiction writers as well. There are some new ideas here that I'm going to put to use.
3041872
I thought it was a very good story. Taught me things about the assassination that I wasn't aware of before. I did some research on the matter afterwards and it seemed to be pretty well on target.