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Title: A Great Story; A Bad Book
Review: After reading "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer and "The Climb" by Anatoli Boukreev with G. Weston DeWalt, both of which were excellent and engaging books, I turned to "Facing the Extreme" by Ruth Anne Kocuour. Like Krakauer and Boukreev, Kocuour found herself high on a dangerous mountain in a blizzard. Like them, she survived, while others met their death. Unlike Krakauer and Boukreev, she did not write a great book about her experiences. The biggest problems with this book are the constant flow of bad jokes and puns, the constant put-downs of several of her climbing companions, and her total lack of modesty. Krakauer opines in his book that who lived and who died was a matter of chance, and that he could have easily died. Kocuour repeatedly tells the reader that it was her skill and planning that made her a survivor. I found her and her book to be obnoxious and less than entertaining.
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