![]() " I read this book in college for a literature class and really enjoyed it. maclean writes some of the best prose ever! " - Kerilynn, ![]() " feels blasphemous to give norman maclean anything less than 5 stars but it just didn't grab me the way "a river runs through it" did. " It's a bit a hard read, but so compellng and so tragic. Many years after I read it I've retained images from this descriptive, melancholy narrative of young smoke jumpers who were consumed in a tornadic firestorm that occurred in along Montana's Missouri River. " Easily one of the most memorable books I've read. A must read for anyone who teaches about or fights wildland fires. " This book was like getting to crawl inside Norman Mclean's head. ![]() " It's about pain and survival and love and jumping out of airplanes into forest fires! Oh, and it's non-fiction. The book explores the investigation into what happened, different types of fires, and the birth of fire jumping. ![]() " A true story of several fire jumpers who were killed in a forest fire in Montana. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:. ![]()
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