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Reads like a thriller...
Take a deep breath... say goodbye to family and friends for few hours or days... pick up the book... you won't stop reading if you're interested in outdoors. I started listening to the book on a Friday and couldn't stop until I finished it on the weekend. The book goes from one disaster to another...by the time you come to grips with one, another disaster is waiting. I agree with author's conclusion that knowing when you're pushing the envelope and when you're risking life is the difference. I recalled and relived two incidents in my outdoor life when I was close to making bad decisions.. both times trying to take short cuts in wilderness... Fortunately I backtracked and survived.

I read it just to enjoy the book itself.. not necessarily correlate lessons to another area f life.

Look beyond the cheesy title
Fabulous book about the philosophy of survivors and surviving.
Filled with incredible accounts of survival and non-survival, and comparisons between them. This is one of the best books of the year. Fantastic!

Reading Deep Survival
A park ranger, while leading me on a rescue mission for my friend, on a very dark night in the wilderness, recommended this book. So I went to Amazon.com and bought it. It has changed the way I think about a lot of things I do. It's not so much a book of survival techniques or stories of heroism as it is a book of how people who survive dangerous situations think. There are some concrete ideas about thinking and will that apply to everyone's life whether we expect to be in danger or not. Well written, easily comprehended, compelling - some adjectives to describe this book.

Not just "survivor" stories--so much more!
Laurence Gonzales was impressed with the story of his father's survival during WWII, falling five miles out of the sky in an airplane and living to tell the tale. He was intrigued with the questions of not only how people survive in extreme circumstances, but also about how and why skilled people who should know better get into these situations. He explains quite a bit about how our brains and instincts work both for us and against us in these circumstances, and in so doing, produces a work that's fascinating, scientific, and compellingly readable. His summaries of what places people in peril and what helps them survive seemed so vital that I ended up reading the book twice, while ignoring a stack of unread books on my nightstand! I recommend this book to any reader, even the non-adventurous, and I look forward to reading his latest book as well.

Top Gun meets Tao te Ching
I liked this book but it got on my nerves.

If you liked the movie Top Gun; if you think the guys with the need for speed are "elite" (a term the author uses throughought the book when referring to his heroes, and you get the sense he includes himself in that number); if you love the macho adrenaline junkie jargon (which the author sometimes doesn't even bother to translate for us ordinary folk), you may love this book.

On the other hand; if the guys in Top Gun sometimes grate on your nerves; if you think football heroes, aviators, race car drivers and military men can sometimes be full of themselves and overrated; this book will definitely get on your nerves.

The author has some interesting insights, but if he could just get over himself, his Daddy and all of the other "elite" performers running around avoiding death, it would be a much more palatable read.

This guy comes off a bit like a narcissist. His book screams "Look how *awesome* these dudes are and I'm one of THEM!!!!" He does name drop; he does seem to be talking down at us peons much of the time and spiritual quotes get thrown in sometimes as if they were in an SNL skit. Has more than a healthy dose of ego, this guy does. We "get" how special he and his homies are a few pages into it.

I disagree with a reviewer who says he is sexist. True, most of his heroes are male, but there are a few female heroines that get their due in the book and they are pretty awesome chicks too.

He does have some good information and interesting insights for us about the mindset and actions we need to survive scary situations. Information we can all use, God forbid, should we find ourselves in a dread situation.

Take the good and blow off the bad, if you can. It's worth reading, but be ready to roll your eyes shake your head at the storyteller more than a few times.