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Topic: Fire on the Moon
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andrex
Member Posts: 18
From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted April 28, 2005 09:27 PM
  
I have just finished reading Norman Mailer's 'Fire on the Moon'.Just wondering what other readers thought of it.
Although not overly heavy on tech detail, it certainly
gave me a feel of the time, albeit through one strange mans eyes. Andrew |
randy
Member Posts: 1087
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted April 28, 2005 11:34 PM
I thought it was a good book. Certainly not one of the best I've read on the subject, but a good one never the less. |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3002
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted April 29, 2005 10:34 AM
The style of the book is very much of its time, and Mailer keeps it very much focused on himself - but I think it captures very well how the mood of the times was increasingly divorced from NASA's engineering-oriented focus to carrying out their primary goals. Some interesting insights into how the Apollo 11 crew came across to outsiders at the time too. It captures a public disconnection that helps explain why Apollo slipped off the radar of public interest.FF |
DChudwin
Member Posts: 781
From: Lincolnshire IL USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted April 30, 2005 08:54 AM
I know for a fact that Mailer did on-the-scenes research before the Apollo 11 launch because I was on the same press tour bus with him at the Cape before Apollo 11The book is a good example of the "new journalism" evolving at that time. David | |
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