Unbroken

This was a book club book and I don't know why I bother to read book club books, since pretty much no one else does, but I always figure the point and purpose of a book club is to read books that you wouldn't choose yourself.  And I most definitely wouldn't have chosen this one!

It was pretty deadly, even though it was very informative.  But it felt like a long newspaper article (long as in over 400 pages!) about Louis Zamperini who was a fast runner! LOL  He went to the Olympics when he was 15 and was a sure bet for the Gold four years later.  Except there was a war.  A big war!@  And he ended up in a plane in charge of launching bombs.  But then he is in a tub of a jet and it crashes into the Pacific, and for 42 days he and two others are just floating in this life raft.  I can tell you pretty much everything about this ... but really all you care is that he made it.  Right?  Well, he does, right into Japanese territory where he is thrown into a POW camp and dreams about the good life of starvation and sun stroke on the raft!  For two years he is held prisoner and tortured.  Let me tell you, it was torturous to read!

If you are interested in little tidbits of WWII that you might not have learned in class, then this is the book for you!