Robert Coker
 
From the “School Library Journal:” Packed with great color photos and breathless "you-are-there" narration, this is the book for coaster fanatics. It starts slowly with the history of these unique thrill rides and then takes off with vivid descriptions of great machines, from classic "woodies" like The Beast ("heaving and lurching with animalistic rage") to innovative steel coasters like Nitro ("all that's between us and the cold, bare earth more than 18 stories below is a whole lot of nothing") and the record-breaking hyper- and giga-coasters with drops of at least 200 or 300 feet, respectively. The volume concludes with a tantalizing glimpse of rides to come and an appendix of amusement parks in the United States and overseas for readers compelled to match the author's poetic prose with the real thing. Roller Coasters leaves readers panting, a little shaken, and, like a great ride, wanting to go again. -Susan Salpini, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
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