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Don't Blow Yourself Up: The Further True Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky

av Homer Hickam

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In his latest memoir, Homer recounts his life in college where he built the world's biggest, baddest game cannon, fought through some of the worst battles in Vietnam, became a scuba instructor, discovered sunken U-boats, wrote the definitive account of a World War II naval battle, befriended Tom Clancy, made a desperate attempt to save the passengers of a sunken river boat, trained the first Japanese astronauts, taught David Letterman to scuba dive, helped to fix the Hubble Space Telescope, wrote his number one bestselling Rocket Boys, and was on set during the making of October Sky. Although told with humor and wit, Hickam does not shy away from the pain and hardship endured and the mistakes he made during the tumultuous decades since his life in the town he made famous -- Coalwood, West Virginia.… (mer)

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The title of this book says it all because there were many further adventures in Hickam's life. Not only did I learn more about the author whom I have admired for years, I learned more about so many things, like the Vietnam War, building a cannon, diving and exploring undersea wrecks and dealing with decompression issues, working for NASA and developing things that were somewhat over my head, Japan, and Russia, just to name a few. The vast number of experiences that Hickam had are so varied that a book had to be written about them! I am more impressed with the author than I was before.
This book is entertaining while being informative; the writing style is very readable with sprinklings of subtle humor thrown in that made me laugh out loud a few times. I also teared up a time or two also. A very good book to put as my first book read for 2022. (

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In his latest memoir, Homer recounts his life in college where he built the world's biggest, baddest game cannon, fought through some of the worst battles in Vietnam, became a scuba instructor, discovered sunken U-boats, wrote the definitive account of a World War II naval battle, befriended Tom Clancy, made a desperate attempt to save the passengers of a sunken river boat, trained the first Japanese astronauts, taught David Letterman to scuba dive, helped to fix the Hubble Space Telescope, wrote his number one bestselling Rocket Boys, and was on set during the making of October Sky. Although told with humor and wit, Hickam does not shy away from the pain and hardship endured and the mistakes he made during the tumultuous decades since his life in the town he made famous -- Coalwood, West Virginia.

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