"Hey kid - did you know that when the astronauts got back to earth, Collins was a mess. He couldn't eat, he couldn't sleep. Hep'd drift off in the middle of a sentence. The man could not function. Finally he told the docs at NASA that after gazing at the moon all the time, after orbiting it again...
I knew next to nothing about Willie Sutton, so it was great to learn about him and have my curiosity aroused. However, the story itself was a little off for me, too written around a love story that doesn't even seem to have really existed. But as a novel (without thinking of it being based on a t...
Nice story. Very inspirational. It had a number of very interesting quotes on life's viewpoints
3.5 Would have given five stars had it not been for the ending. I liked the writing style.
This is an incredibly honest book by an incredibly good story teller. JR grew up with an absent father and ended up with many "fathers", and one enormously strong and dedicated mother. I, too, grew up with an absent father and an enormously strong and dedicated mother so I could relate to much ...