Posts: 1049 From: County Down, Nothern Ireland Registered: Feb 2002
posted 09-21-2004 01:04 PM
Hello
I am just back from nevada yesterday and i bought the book light this candle about Al Shepard. Before i read the book i had come accrossb his personality in the wonderfull book a man on the moon and did not like it. I thought he was not a nice person. What i have read of ythe book has not endeared me to him. But thuis is one of the best space bio's i have eveer read. I just cant put it down. What did yoiu all think of it.
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Posts: 809 From: Cortlandt Manor, NY Registered: May 2000
posted 09-21-2004 03:02 PM
I just finished "Light this Candle" after stops and starts over the past few months. On the plus side, the writing is clean and flows well and it does add a fair amount to my knowledge about Alan Shepard's life before Mercury. On the negative side, I would hard pressed to identify anything within the book, beyond a few new anecdotes, that added to the information about the Mercury, Gemini or Apollo programs or the nature of NASA from 1958 through 1972. Most of the chapters covering this time period came across as a college report that a student with a decent writing style put together after reading five or ten better books (the references to "Carrying the Fire," "American Boys" and "Last Man on the Moon" added to this impression).