Young Men & Fire
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On August 5, 1949, a crew of 15 of the U.S. jungle Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in Montana wilderness. Less than an hour later, all but three were dead or fatally burned in a “blowup,” an explosive 2,000 degree firestorm 300 feet deep and 200 feet tall. Winner of a 1992 National Book Critic Award, Young Men & Fire consumed 14 years of Norman Maclean’s life. He sifted through grief and controversy in search of the truth about the Mann Gulch tragedy, then wrote about it in excruciating detail. The sobering tale of the worst disaster in the history of the jungle Service also embraces the themes of honor, death, compassion, rebirth, and the human spirit.Amazon.com Review
A work that consumed 14 years of Maclean’s life, and earned a 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award, Young Men and Fire tells the tale of a Rocky Mountain forest fire that that claimed the lives of 13 young smoke jumpers on August 5, 1949, at Mann Gulch, Montana. The firefighters corroded in a “blowup”–an explosive, 2,000-degree firestorm 300 feet deep and 200 feet tall. The excruciating detail of this book makes for a sobering reading experience. Maclean–a ex- University of Chicago English professor and avid fisherman–also wrote A River Runs Through It and Additional Tales, which is set along the Missouri River, one gulch downstream from Mann.
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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