Published December 9, 2008
Hello!
So, basically I have a friend who really likes to read and I was thinking of getting him a book for Christmas...
He really likes biographies and non fiction about real life situations rather than fiction for example he loved Papillon by Henri Chari (i think that's who it's by) and books about what it's like to be a soldier etc or recently he read a book about what it's like to live in some notorious prison in Brazil or something and it was writen by a man who was released from there, things like that. Or i think he'd like something like the diary of someone who sailed around the world or flew around the world on their own or climbed Mt. Everest or something.
I don't really read books like that so if anyone has read one which they thought was good which they could recommend for me to get for him then that would be really great!
Thanks! 
Sofi.
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Hey everyone!
Thanks so much for taking the time to recommend books I really appreciate it! I think I might get him 'Reach for the Sky' but I'll definatly recommend all the others to him as well or maybe get one for his birthday or something haha.
Thanks again so much!
Sofi
"Reach for the Sky" by Paul Brickhill. It's the biography of Douglas Bader, a pilot who lost both his legs but learned to walk again, fly in the Battle of Britain, get captured by and escape from a German concentration camp, end up in Colditz and get his golf handicap down to something ridiculous.
Or has he already read it?
World war z. Its a great book, its fiction posed as nonfiction, the oral history of a nonexistent war.
I own a biography called Terry Fox, His Story. It looks really good.
Another one is The Diary of Ma Yan. She lives in a place in China discribed as uninhabitable. Her diary is about her wanting to go to school despite all hardships.
It's funny you should mention that one because that's the one I was going to get him but then someone told me that he already read it
Thank you for taking the time to recommend it though, I appreciate it!
Anyone else know of any books? I'd really appreciate any help!
Hi Sofi,
I'm not sure if he would have read Lance Armstrong's book -- It's not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life, but its a really nice book, and really is inspirational, and amazing.
Good Luck