It took Laura Hillenbrand 7 years to research and write the book “Unbroken”; it took me two and a half days to read it. The book is roughly 500 pages long. To say that I “couldn’t put it down”, would be an understatement—I became wholly engrossed, and at once, addicted. It seems that,
for evolutionary reasons, humans seem to become more engaged with survival
narratives; especially if the yarn is spun in a way in which the reader can
easily place herself into the shoes of the protagonist. The f...