I've already used up my quota of meaningless opening lines, like 'Well.' and 'What can I say?' and so on. It's hard to know how to start describing a book with such a legendary status as this. It's captivating reading, that's for sure, and it has inspired me to learn more about the American space program of the 1960's, and about the test pilot days before that. It's too bad NASA hasn't done anything exciting since then, and has been happy to keep using the Space Shuttle, technology that was outdated even before it was invented. But I have high hopes that Carmack or someone else will rock their world (and get us off this world...get it?) sooner rather than later.