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Book Review: Falling

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Falling; How Our Greatest Fear Became Our Greatest Thrill. Author Garrett Soden, Publisher is W. W. Norton, 2003

It has some, but not a lot, about skydiving and mentions Charles Broadwick but not Tiny but was still of interest from a skydiving point of view. It covers everthing from wire walking to BASE jumping and has good (to me) references regarding our pre-historical development.

It refutes the common belief that high-sensation seekers have a death wish, it is exactly opposite and brings up the stat, which I didn't know, that of 380 mountain climbing deaths only one was a free solo climber (risk vs chance).
The best part was a researchers finding that "high sensation-seeking women preferred a higher frequency of intercourse, reported more frequent multiple orgasms,--------- than the low sensation seekers".

The Houston library has one copy but I have it for the next few weeks because I am reading it to my SO.

Carl

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