Wilburn

Basic Entertainment

Revisado: 06-24-23

Gary Paulson meets cheeseball aviation writing meets Christian young adult fiction. However, this is the most vivid depiction of village sled flying that I've ever come across, a window into a small, dark corner of aviation that most know nothing about. While published as a novel, the anecdotes no doubt draw heavily on the author's experience on the peninsula as a low-time pilot building hours. One major fact-check though...the word "bush pilot" is used heavily throughout the book, and village pilots categorically do not refer to themselves as bush pilots, and would be ridiculed if they did so. Despite flying around bush areas, the term "bush pilot" is really only applied to off-airport operations such as landing on lakes and gravel bars (and the term is really not used in Alaska...you'll never hear a bush pilot in Alaska refer to themselves as such, at least while in the state). I had a 28-hr drive, so this book was tolerable enough to get through, but between the juvenile writing style and the narrator's overuse of license with the voices, I had to set it down a few times.

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Great Story Even with Narrator

Revisado: 04-15-22

Narrator was about as deadpan as it gets. Grew on me over time and even seemed to fit in some places, but he took getting used to. Regardless, this is a truly incredible story.

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Poor Narration

Revisado: 12-27-16

Murakami great as always, but the narrator was subpar. Some of the voices used for various characters were bizarre, ill-fitting and distracting...felt like he had an inventory of voices and was intent on using those particular voices regardless of appropriateness. This one may be one to read rather than listen to.

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