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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)

Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival

Norman Ollestad

Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages

Rating: 3.6 | 5146 Users | 864 Reviews

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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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Ok this should have been a good book - a great book but it wasn't. I think you could've read the little blurb on the front cover and been good. It was about a boy involved in a plane crash with his father and father's girlfriend (true story) and the 11 year old boy at the time (the now 40 something author) was the only one to survive. Interesting and intriguing right? Wrong. The story was pretty much told in the first chapter and the rest of the book went back and forth between him getting down

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

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

A skinny memoir in search of an editor. How does one tell a 272 page story of a plane-crash in which your father, his girl-friend, and the pilot die and only you, an eleven-year old, survive, and somehow manage to continually and ultimately bore the reader to distraction? (He writes this 27 years after the event.) I learned self-serving banalities about surfboards, skiing, teenage parties, and on and on but precious little about the pre-crash/crash specifics. Not even a simple fleshing-out of

Opening Line: February 19,1979. At seven that morning my dad, his girlfriend Sandra and I took off from Santa Monica Airport headed for the mountains of Big Bear.Set amid the wild uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, Crazy For The Storm is a fascinating memoir that was hard to put down. It centers around 11 year old Norman Ollestad and the complicated relationship he had with his father. Demanding, charismatic and free-spirited, it is ultimately the thrill-seeking

At times the storyline abruptly changes from "the incident" to "life with Dad / StepDad / Mom" - a bit annoying. The story of the crash and what follows are compelling enough to not want to be pulled away, especially to what initially seems to be a less interesting and negative situation. As the story progresses, you begin to see how the life lessons he learns from his abusive stepfather and the things he's learned from his Dad are what ultimately see him through everything post-crash.

Obviously, if you read a memoir by a plane crash survivor theres no suspense as to whether or not he survived but what Ollestad does so well is alternate short, concisely written chapters about key moments in his life leading up to this with the scenario he is faced with on the mountain. He really gets inside the mentality that was needed to believe that he could survive and how this was instilled in him, often in ways that he wasnt so happy about at the time, by his dad who pushed him to excel