Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Wind, Sand and Stars
Book Review: Magnificent
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a gem. I was lucky enough to find a copy a great used book store and have treasured it. Knowing how he died it is especially poignant to read his experiences flying in the early days of flight through fantastic countryside. You will love this book.Book Review: exquisite
Summary: 4 Stars
how many of us read NIGHT FLIGHT in high school as quickly as possible? my grown experience of Saint-Exupery is the opposite. i linger over every page. Saint-Exupery provides a literary meal to be savored page by page. call me an escapist but the skies over Buenos Aires never looked so good.Book Review: I don't get it.
Summary: 2 Stars
This was an interestng diversion but hardly the masterpiece that I was led to expect. Pretty ordinary.Book Review: A wonderful, easy reading
Summary: 4 Stars
Only on a few occasions in a lifetime is one given the chance to read a novel that so captures the lightness of the human spirit and the joy of living as in Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry's Wind, Sand, and Stars. With elegant, nearly poetic writing, he presents a small collection of stories from a lifetime of philosophy and adventure. Saint-Exup?ry was a French pilot who flew for the postal service A?ropostale in the 1920s, a time period when aviation was still a revolutionary and dangerous activity. Any fears he had were shadowed by his absolute love of flying and passion for soaring high above the earth, away from the material desires and violence of society. This endearing relationship between Saint-Exup?ry and his aircraft shows one of the many ways, as Wind, Sand, and Stars documents, that he finds happiness in his everyday life.Book Review: Lost in Translation
Summary: 3 Stars
This is my first time reading a book from Antoine de Saint Exupery, and I am glad to say that it was a fantastic experience. I chose this book for an english assignment, and was pleased to find that it was a good choice! However, as I am a High School Junior, some aspects of the book kind of flew over my head. I chose the book looking for a good adventure novel, and the aspect of flying got me very interested. I also liked how Exupery laid out the book. By sectioning off the different ideas, it made the concepts a little more easy to grasp. As interesting as the novel was, however, it took me forever to actually get into the text. The introduction, and begining points seemed to drag on, and I was tempted to skip the begining in order to get into the action. All in all, I eventually got into the book, and started to enjoy it. After reading Wind, Sand and Stars, I am tempted to go out and read some of his other works.