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Unbroken - Louis Zamperini

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R.I.P. Louis Zamperini: 1917-2014

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/03/showbiz/m ... ?hpt=hp_t2

He was 97. By itself, an impressive age to live to but jaw dropping if you know his story.

One of the best non fiction audio books I've ever listened to, Unbroken, will be a movie out in theaters in Dec 2014. The book has been on the best seller list for 4 years straight.

I'm guessing that movie will be decent but Louis Zamperini's story of survival is incredible.

It's directed my Angelina Jolie and the Cohen Brothers which I hope turns out OK.

The audio book is amazing. It's read by one of the best audio book readers out there, Edward Herrmann.

Have a listen to 10 minutes of it:

http://www.audiobooks.com/book/stream/121216

While a story of inspiration, things get worse, and worse, and worse, and worse for Zamperini. Just one torment he goes through feels like a triumph to have survived but amazingly his situation gets worse when you think there's no way it could. There's no taking "sides" in this. You simply will be in awe of what he endured and survived.

Here's the trailer for the movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M48tvsfpIew&hd=1

Looks promising. Biggest thing that concerns me is that he won't look anywhere near as fucked up, skinny, etc as he actually was. Perhaps reading the book afterwards (or before) will give a better sense of it all as it describes in detail what happened physically as well as mentally.

Sad to hear of his passing.
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Re: Unbroken - Louis Zamperini

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Watched Unbroken and it's a good movie. As expected in the movie version of a book, it barely touches on the entire story in the couple hours it has to do so.

Rest assured that he went through much more shit than in the movie. Nevertheless, it's a good movie but really the book should be read/listened to. The talented narrator of the book, Edward Hermann, died recently. His narration of the audio version Unbroken is outstanding.

8.1/10
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