Reddit reviews Alive

You might like Alive by Piers Paul Read. It's the true story of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes. There is also an excellent documentary about the subject called Stranded: I Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains that is available on Netflix.

Another exciting non-fiction book is The Cruelest Miles by Gay Salisbury and Laney Salisbury. It covers the sled run to and from Nome to deliver serum for the diptheria epidemic in the town. It was this initial run that inspired the annual Iditarod sled run in Alaska.

I'd recommend Cormac McCarthy. The Road is a truly great book, but he has some other good ones too. A movie by the same name was recently released, also good. But I think the book is better. However, the writing style is not your average writing style. It's bland and bleak and the dialogue reeks of the hopelessness of the characters. But it mirrors the environment the characters live in, so I thought it was really well done.

If you liked "Into The Wild" you might enjoy "Under The Banner Of Heaven" by the same author. It essentially gives a fairly robust history lesson of the Mormon religion in about 350 pages.

If you're into a survival book, you'll enjoy "Alive". It is a true story about a Rugby team in the early 70's whose plain crashed. The survivors ended up having to eat human meat from those that died.

Alive.

(Okay, bad joke!)