Original Posted By: Gordon Brimhall
SInce many Piet fans have been asking about Flight of Passage, I'm postingthese reader comments from Amazon.com (mega book store):and enjoyed the story. It was an exciting andthe book from Amazon for my mother to read. in the book. The radio reader had editedbook for another elderly friend, but my motherwouldn't be as open minded as she was aboutfor the open minded readers. I do wish theit.writing was beautiful anf the th story riviting.of us have visited. i nly wish I had done the"West with the Night" for me for shear writing1998There were passages that made me laugh so me cry for their poignancy. This was a trulyyet ordinary brothers. The description wasthe story flowed. I'm afraid my wife may not finish this great book. I look forward to morethis one!love.collection of passages devoted to the author's longdomineering, eccentric father through the vehicle ofolder brother Kernanhan. It is an oddessey - afriendship and understanding told through theboy, oftentimes at odds with his demandingour country was still rattled by the Kennedy familystory of two young men in an antique airplanerepeated, worn out stories of Stearman men andstories to their sons someday in probably the samebrother, having attended the same schools, andfly a restored Piper Cub. But the magic of non flyers alike. It reminds us that we live in a all do, and like most families, we have our misunderstandings, but with experiencebestowed upon us - maybe years later - but areally didn't want the boys' flight to end. Well discovery.interesting youth, being able to fly cross country in afascinating, as is tbe account of their relationship withaccuracy of the account since at least one glaringwestern Kentucky and seeing railroad tunnels andsuspect he has confused this trip with an earlier trip hills to speak of in the western part of thecabins (in the 1960s!). A conspicuous error likethe book, but on balance it is enjoyable reading.dreams.60's through the eyes of one innocent and oneflight of two boys in 1966 across country in acomplex interactions between teenage boyssurprising events of the trip. Encounters with aopenly shared through the gifted writing style ofcontrasted against the complex issues of the times, thereading this book, one is flying in another time,________________________________________________________________________________