The Survivor by Robb White

The Survivor Reviews

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  Dick

  I found it! This was the book that I read in the seventh grade that made me love books, and sent me on my path of always looking for another story that I could not put down. I remember going to the library at school and asking what book would grab me and my librarian gave me this book. I could never remember exactly what it was or who wrote it until I saw the cover on goodreads. Instant recognition. Always wanted this on my read list.
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  Jason Reeser

  This is one of my all time favorites that I read when I must have been eight or nine. I can't remember. It was sheer poetry to me at that age. I wanted so bad to actually live out this story. The scene in the crippled sub is one of my all time favorites. Robb White knew how to tell a story.
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  Sarah Gallini

  This was such a surprisingly interesting and well written book. The cover threw me off and I almost didn't read it. But now I'm glad I did. It's hard to find a good, simple ww2 story set in the Pacific but this one was a good one.
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  Lark Benobi

  Along with
  Surrender and
  Combat Nurses of World War II and
  Two Dogs and a Horse, this is one of the most formative books of my early childhood. A product of its times, this novel is without a doubt xenophobic and racist and nationalist, the way John Wayne movies are xenophobic and racist and nationalist. So I'm ashamed to still love it. But like the Star Spangled Banner this book gets to me every time, even when I remind myself that I'm the victim of early thought control. My most beloved scene of all time is in this novel, when Marines escape from a sunken submarine by continuously blowing out the pressurized air out of their lungs while gently floating to the surface, supposedly never running out of air even though the journey takes six minutes. I have no idea if that would work but it's a great scene.
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  Laura

  I found this book on one of my dad's bookshelves and read it when I was about 10. I loved it, especially the part when they escape from the submarine, but it was printed so cheaply that the glue didn't hold in the yellowed pages. I had to look at the page numbers to find out what page to read next sometimes, as the pages fell out and mixed on the floor. I remember thinking that this must be what "pulp fiction" is, but boy can it be enjoyable.
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  Jason

  It's kind of funny to read a fictional account from World War 2 after reading so many non-fictional accounts. It definitely felt a little hyped up from reality.
  
  Not bad story-wise. The stereotypes were laid on a little thick, but it wasn't too distracting. The story was simple, but still compelling.
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  Maddie

  awful.
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  Sara Sise

  Owen loved! This was Bern's favorite read at 10 yrs. Found out-of-print copy on Amazon.