Young Men and Fire
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The NYT A River Runs Through It. In 1949, a crew of U.S. jungle Service Smokejumpers parachuted into a Montana forest fire. In less than an hour, all but three were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for 40 years, Maclean reconstructs the pieces print.Amazon.com Review
On August 5, 1949, lightning came crashing down in the vast spruce forest above Seeley Lake, Montana, and touched off a roaring blaze. As every Westerner knows, lightning means fire, but the fire that raged through Mann Gulch that day was huge–the sort that occurs only every few decades. A battery of paratrooper-firefighters, many of them fresh veterans of World War II, had been anticipating it, and even looking forwards to the chance to fight a fantastic fire. Before the day finished thirteen of persons smokejumpers lay dead, their charred remains evidence that something had gone terribly incorrect. Norman Maclean gives a thorough account of the incident in language not meant for the sick: “Burning to death on a mountainside is dying at least three times … first, considerably yet to be of the fire, you reach the verge of death in your boots and your legs; next, as you fail, you sink back in the region of weird gases and red and blue darts where there is no oxygen and here you die in your lungs; then you sink in prayer into the main fire that consumes.” After August 1949, he notes, the jungle Service came to admit that not all fires need to be fought and that fire benefits most forest ecosystems.
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The book is way to long it could be 200 pages. Maclean babbles on for paragraphs about something that could be said in a paragraph or two.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
It is permanently a terrible precident to sit down to read a book that the leader never finished. In this case it is honest to say that he never started. This book is a loose collection of notes and incoherant narratives which McLean proposed to use to make a book. It was then complied and allowed to stand on its own merits as an unedited first draft. Don’t waste your time since neither the leader nor his publisher expected anything more from themselves.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Only 1 out of 9 of us bothered to end reading this book. The leader rambles, gave too much details. I don’t reflect he ever proposed to publish this book. The entire book seems to be just notes on the Fire. The book ends with a parallel to the death of the leader’s wife from cancer to dying in a fire. It appears to be an aimless rambling, just like the rest of the book. Skip this book!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Has anyone out there checked Maclean’s math on pages 229-230 of the paperback edition (second section of Chapter 12)? I’m no math practiced, but shouldn’t the hypotenuse of a right triangle with sides of 1,320 and 140 yards be a small over 1,327 yards, and not the 1,400 yards he indicates? Moreover, didn’t all of the 140 yard vertical gain occur in the final half mile of travel, since the crew was moving on contour for the first quarter mile of “the race”? This would yield a total actual distance of only 1,331 yards. I was surprised by these errors agreed how meticulous Maclean was in the rest of his research.
This is a fantastic book, though.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
This book is butter to my bread. It’s the chicken to my noddle soup. Maclean’s tale of his own personal enduring voyage through life and this tragedy is simply orgasmic. Lacking words to clarify, Maclean touched me like no woman ever could. Read this book. Every penetrating word, every passionate jab thrown by his sentences will surely place you crying to your mother. I like young men, as well as fire.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5