Very good read, Sons in the Clouds
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Really enjoyed the interesting story line! This book is full of many types of emotions....the kind of writing I enjoy. In addition, the book was quite inspirational and moving. The authors writing style is straight to the point, also quite vivid. Characters were developed well and as I read it I was able to imagine it as a movie. Looking forward to more great works by the author.
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Craig Lesley's Storm Riders is a very good read.  I don't often anymore find a book that I want to keep reading right to the end.  This is such a book.  I wished for more. Lesley has the gift of the story-teller.  He's a  born yarner.  This is his fourth novel, and I think he reaches higher  here than in the others.  Less landscape, more heartscape.  The many crises  in raising a child damaged by fetal alcohol syndrome are rendered  convincingly and movingly.  In a deceptively plain style, Lesley  peoples complex events with well-rounded characters.  Wade, the mentally  damaged child who shares the focus of the novel, is utterly alive to me in  his sometimes charming, often frightening behavior.  Wade's stepdad Clark  is for the most part a model of patience and commitment, so much so that I  had to ask myself if he weren't too virtuous and strong.  I asked myself  whether I knew any such dads.  The answer is yes, several of them.  I hear  dad-bashing so often -- deadbeat dads, you know-- it's wonderful to read at  last about a really good dad, portrayed realistically.  Clark is no ivory  saint, but he's as good a dad as you'd ever want.  Another reviewer  has questioned Lesley's decision to write this story of his own experiences  as fiction rather than straight exposition.  I feel, as probably many  others do, that story-telling is a primary means of sharing.  Lesley is a  novelist, not a psychologist.  The same reviewer objected to Lesley's  detailed commentary about the U. S. Navy's massacre of Tlingit villagers  more than 100 years ago.  I found the commentary both interesting and  functional.  Sounds to me like praising with faint damns.
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I really liked this book and realized my son is stationed in the same 173rd as Sal was then.  It was well written and very interesting.  I`d highly suggest this book to read to anybody that likes reading about war stories.  His story was very unique.  My son got to meet him later when he did a speech for the Army and said it was great getting to meet the guy that got one of the Medals of Honor in the 173rd in Italy.  Their has been a second Medal of Honor given from the  173rd so that is really amazing.
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After having previously read the Land of the Long White  cloud series, I thoroughly enjoyed this book as it drewbin litsbof incidrnts from the seried snd was very desvriptive of tye hardlives in their day. The real lifre issues are thee sane as current times proving life has been tough all through each era for all walks of pife.
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I liked this book, it kept me interested throughout the book.  I would definitely recommend it to others.  I liked
Haymans' writing so much that I read his first book and plan to read the next one due out soon.
3159489
Great read, a bit sad, but an amazingly strong man until the end. Best wishes for his boys, they truly had a "one of a kind" Dad!
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I really enjoyed this book!  Once I got started, it was VERY hard to put down.  It's an exciting story.  I finished the book in three sittings during Sat and Sun last weekend.  It's a clever story (I won't give it away here), told from the point of view of a 15 year old boy.  The author transports the reader to the year 1940, to Southern shores of England awaiting Hitler's expected invasion.  Spitfire and Messerschmitt dogfights raged in the skies above.  Although this is fiction, it contains much detail and seems so real.  It seems as if the author was actually there in 1940 England (and maybe was about 15 years old at the time) and writes this story from his own real-life experiences.
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A great read, could"t put this book, or the prequel 'The Land of the Long White Cloud', down. The description of the landscape is fantastic and accurate. I look very much forward to more books by this author being translated into English.
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I became engrossed in this story.  Very nicely woven tale of a young German brother and his sister paralleling the life of a young Parisian girl who loses her sight.  The war brews, begins, destroys, and ends as the lives of these young people evolve.  I recommend this book.
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This book holds your interest from the beginning.  Its well written and gives the reader a clear vision of the hardships these men endoured.  I am also giving it as a Christmas gift.
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I really enjoyed this book and the unique idea of The Cloud. Scary to imagine a situation like this occurring in our world and the details and facts made it a believable story. This is the beauty of reading...you can immerse yourself in another world, fight alongside the hero, and enjoy a little vacation from reality.
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I've wanted to read this book for a long time, so was very happy to see this out of print title available in Kindle form.  Serenade is a superb account of how it was for young men to fight the air war in a B-17, and it also offers also plain superb writing.  I was surprised at the insights such a young man could provide in such evocative & often humorous & horrifying prose.  It was a terrible thing that Bert Stiles ended up being killed in the P-51 he wanted to fly so much.  No question he would've had a great writing career had he survived.  At least this 1 book did.
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The book was very good and made me think alot  about the abandoned children and the fact that it is true. Couldnt hardly put it down.
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Very interesting story. Extremely well written. Could really identify with Percy, his house, lake etc. The book really made me think about the relationship between Percy and his 2 very different daughters, their relationship with each other, their relationship with their children and Robert's relationship with his Grandad to mention but a few. As the novel progresses and Turo is clearly dragging Robert into his " private war" it really emphasises how important the friends your children hang around with is. It clearly puts Robert on a very different life course.
The story line with Celestino highlights another aspect of society as does the relationship between Ira and his partner.
I loved the fact that in spite of all the things that go wrong the ending is hopeful and everyone seems to be coming to terms with their situation. I would recommend this book.
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A good read, very atmospheric ,felt like being back there in the 50s and experiencing how hard life was for some.
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The Kite Runner if one of the best books I have read in a longtime. The author Khaled Hosseini really pulls you in to what life is truly like in Afghanistan. I had to remind myself many times that it is not an autobiography. I would strongly recommend this book.
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Great story, really puts the reader in the cockpit all through the flying sequences! I enjoyed the story through the JO perspective.