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Original Title: Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
ISBN: 0061766720 (ISBN13: 9780061766725)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award Nominee (2011)
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Title:Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
Author:Norman Ollestad
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 272 pages
Published:June 2nd 2009 by Ecco (first published 2009)
Categories:Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Adventure. Survival

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Ollestad, 41, was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing at a very young age by the father he idolized. Resentful of a childhood lost to his father’s reckless and demanding adventures, young Ollestad was often paralyzed by fear. Set in Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, the book captures the earthy surf culture of Southern California; the boy’s conflicted feelings for his magnetic father; and the exhilarating tests of skill in the surf and snow that prepared young Norman to become a fearless surfer and ski champion--which ultimately saved his life. In February 1979, just as he was reaping the rewards of his training, a chartered Cessna carrying Norman, his father, his father’s girlfriend, and the pilot, crashed into the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California and was suspended at eight thousand feet, engulfed in a blizzard. Norman’s father, his coach and hero, was dead, and the 11-year old Ollestad had to descend the mountain alone and grief-stricken, through snow and ice, without any gear. Stunningly, the boy defied the elements and put his father’s passionate lessons to work. As he told the LA Times after his ordeal, “My dad told me never to give up.”

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CRAZY FOR THE STORM is an unbelievable account of a young man's family struggles and an incredible story of survival as well. If you enjoy books likes INTO THE WILD, this is a great read!

First, before I get to the praise, I have to confess a niggling skepticism about this memoir (thanks, James Frey! I didn't even read your "A Million Little Pieces" and its lies and half-truths are still casting shadows of doubt over the other memoirs I read.) In this case, my doubts stem less from riveting story itself and more from just wondering how an adult can remember events and interpersonal exchanges (that took place when he was a kid) so vividly.That said, it truly is a GRIPPING

As others have commented, this book can be a bit frustrating in its structure, given that it "bills" itself as a survival story, yet keeps alternating to chapters about the author's earlier childhood that are significantly longer than the survival chapters. Yet, perhaps this imbalance is a necessity, considering that the survival ordeal only lasted 11 (albeit harrowing) hours. But really, the book is centered around a compelling contradiction: it is his father's very reckless passion for life

Though not quite as boastful or badly written, this book reminded me a lot of A Million Little Pieces (a book I abhor, and not for any of the reasons Oprah slammed it--please, all nonfiction is, to some degree, untrue, particularly memoir. I'm surprised that more people weren't offended by Frey's atrociously bad writing--I could barely read a quarter of the book, and I really tried to get through it. But that's another review . . . ) Crazy for the Storm chronicles eleven-year-old Ollestad's

I gave this book a lower rating than I normally would as I felt there was just waaay too much filler information. Just get to the 'real' story already!!! I find these types of books frustrating to read. Mr. Ollestad had more than enough information regarding his lone descent down the mountain after a plane crash and his subsequent rescue to make the book quite enjoyable. However, adding all the filler information in every other chapter took away from the drama of the real story.All in all, still

In this fast, engaging tale Norman Ollestad tells about how he survived a mountaintop plane crash as an 11-year-old, a crash that killed the pilot, his father and his fathers girlfriend, and how his relationship with his father, and the skills he had learned under his tutelage, had prepared him for his near-death ordeal. Norman Ollestad - image from Counterpoint PressOllestad tells of his upbringing, of his charismatic surfer/lawyer/coach father who drove him to peaks of physical performance he

I love survival stories and this one is an amazing true tale. 11 year old boy and his father are in a small plane that crashes high on a snow-covered mountain. The boy alone survives. This is the story of how his relationship with his free spirited, yet demanding father gave him the tools he needed to make it down the mountain. I was initially irritated by the alternating chapters (I just wanted to stay at the crash site), but as the book progressed I became more and more interested in the