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听人推荐买的，用于英语学习。书是原版，暂时没看，先收着，以后慢慢消化
本书作者是我的偶像，So...... 但是小贵。
好书，看过电影，读书是另一种感觉。
This is an excellent book. This well-written biography is a snap-shot into history, into the mind of a teen-aged Homer Hickam, into the lives people living in a 1950's coal mining town, and into our national attitude about the space race. Two of Mr. Hickam's other books, "The Coalwood Way", and "Sky of Stone" both give even more insight, and are also great reads. I highly recommend all three of these books, especially for young men. The books show the benefits of friendship, persevering in the face of incredible odds, and also the benefits of learning on your own. As the mother of three boys, I can say that finding suitable, character building books for young men can be quite a challenge, but these are very good. A bit of foul language is found in all three books, but usually h---, d---, s---, and a few G-- d---'s, things we can unfortunately hear walking in a mall, attending a sporting event, or watching movies and television. These books lack the parade of f-bombs that one can find in contemporary "literature", and also include plenty of discussion about faith, compassion, and helping those less fortunate. I'd like to shake Homer Hickam's hand!
I have read at most a half dozen books in my life that would earn five stars. This was close. This is a touching memoir of a young man's rites of passage and gives an insight into his family environment and more. That insight is richly developed and necessary to understand the things that drove him to fulfill his passion. I probably share a greater interest and identify more clearly with Homer because I am a year older and indeed built rockets when I was in high school, spurred on by the launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957. Like Homer, I had failures but I also had access to resources he did not including engineers at a company that manufactured anti-aircraft missiles. Like Homer, I entered a local science fair and won in my class and went to the state fair. Like Homer, I encountered projects worthy of doctoral dissertations that had obviously consumed hundreds if not thousands of 1959 dollars. I won 4th place overall.
I had to share that to help anyone reading this understand better why this book was a satisfying read. It may not be such for everyone.
Homer Hadley Hickam. Junior. If ever there was a name that suggested either a captain of industry
or a boy steeped in science, this is it. A little of both, I'd say. The story starts in a West Virginia town named Coalwood, and takes the reader into the home of the Hickams. All the elements of a good story are found within. The time period is set early on - a 50's nuclear family in a mining town; dad has modern day problems - he must be available to the mine around the clock. Mom dreams of a life far from Coalwood along a beach in North Carolina as witnessed by her ongoing painting of a seaside landscape. I was touched by the the mother's resolve to get through her day to day in Coalwood, in part because of the view she'd created for herself in her artwork. Brilliant. As described by the author, she's a strong woman determined to raise and prepare her sons to get a good education and a job that doesn't involve the brutal realities of mining. Two adolescent boys vie for their father's attention; one son's the high school football star,Jim, who's assured he has his father's solid interest, while the younger son, a kid swept up by rocket science, rarely captures his father's attention. The end of the story was made more satisfying
because, after trying time and again to gain his father's interest,Sonny,finally does so as he's approache- ing his college years and his father's pushing towards the end of his career at the mines. The family dynamic - scrappy and straightforward, had universal themes for the reader
to consider and Sonny's spirit had me cheering as he worked hard to improve his rocket-launches, built his boyhood friendships in a team of sorts, and made connections with scientists and educators beyond the world he knew well in Coalwood. I found Sonny a fearless, strong leader of his intrepid "rocket boys" who kept at his dreams even though, as a group and as individuals,they suffered failures along the way, both personal and professional - the science fair was a huge opportunity for them. Hickam played the right notes when describing the high school scene; the students drowsy morning starts along a harrowing route, the tippy toeing around the girl/boy interests, the fights that surfaced between brothers and players, and the
studied, thoughtful way the young boys applied themselves to making rockets that actually flew. It's a riveting story with opening scenes focused on the family, good tension builds as Homer (Sonny) keeps at his project while navigating high school life and in the end, it was gratifying to discover that the old adage, "hard work pays off" served the Big Creek Missile Agency (BCMA) delivering the attention and accolades they deserved. Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr. triumphed in the end and the reader soars right along with those rockets.
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I was assigned this book for my Honors English Summer Reading project. I was blown away (and no not by the Rocket Boy's first rocket fired off of Sonny' s fence) by this book. It exceeded my expectations, and left me in awe after finishing it. It was such an empowering and inspirational tale, that gave me a feeling like no other. Reading about a boy my age who decided to follow his dream, letting nothing get in the way of it truly made me feel good. It made me know that the same will happen to me if I truly set my mind on what I want to do. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a good read! Now if you excuse me, I'm going to watch the movie adaptation for it, "October Sky". I can immensely relate to this book, and I give this book a 10/10! #prodigious
This is a well written book that holds your interest and in my case was a trip down memory lane. I too like many boys raised in the 1950's and 60's was inspired and challenged by the launching of sputnik and like Homer I built rockets beginning where Homer finished with dimensions and power enough to reach altitudes measured in miles. But unlike Homer I had to do this in only a couple iterations because I lacked what Homer had in terms of support at school, home, or community. I had the ability to imagine as Homer did and I was good at Physics and Chemistry. I taught myself a little materials engineering and got a friend that was taking a high school shop class to do the fabrication work from my drawings. We made several successful launches and sent them down range into Lake Ontario. We had a lot of fun and learned a lot but without my getting needed support, especially educational support, I never made it to NASA. I suspect my story is a lot more common than is Homer's as a lot of things clicked in his favor, especially his mother's support paying for college and encouraging his youthful experiments. In the USA is takes a lot of money to get an education. Self study is good but It takes a lot of money to get a credentialed education and I suspect a lot of Homer's like Homer senior or me did not reach our full potential because had that happened maybe Mr. Hickam would be reading my book on rocket designs. I also was only a few feet away from JFK but did not field a question on rockets or education as I would have asked why support going to the moon and do such a poor job supporting low cost state supported higher education the way it is supported in Europe.
Sure was fun ... Michael Law
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