Rolling Thunder Stock Car Racing: White Lightning

by Don Keith and Kent Wright

Book Overview

"You know how it feels...the power of the motors vibrating in your chest, stunning your ears, your heart pumping in your throat, the grit of spent tire rubber in your mouth. You know how it feels from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812575067
• ISBN13: 9780812575064
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

This book helped make me a racing fan!

As a relative newcomer to stock car racing, I picked up this book because I thought I might better be able to enjoy watching races if I had a sense of the history of the sport, and if I could get some idea of what it is like for the racers. This book did a fantastic job of both. I don't know what it's really like, driving in a stock car race, but I can't imagine it feels much different from the way these authors describe it.When I read the Rolling Thunder books, I find myself getting really caught up in the emotions of the race. I root for Jodell to win, and find myself getting upset when he loses the lead or it looks like he might get in an accident. I also can't wait to see what happens next in the characters' personal lives. That wouldn't happen if the authors didn't do such a great job of creating likeable, three-dimensional characters.The Rolling Thunder series might not ever be remembered in the annals of great literature, but they provide a good, solid couple of hours of entertainment. As I can attest, you don't have to be a racing fan to enjoy the books, though after reading one you just might find yourself wanting to watch a real race. For me, these books are like potato chips: they're quick and easy to devour, and as soon as you're finished, you want another one.

ENJOYABLE READING, COULD NOT STOP UNTIL FINISHED

HAVING ATTENDED RACES FOR 34 YEARS IN THE SOUTHEAST STARTING AT AGE 12, THIS BOOK IS VERY REALISTIC. PURCHASED THREE ADDITIONAL COPIES FOR FRIENDS IN THE RACING COMMUNITY. LOOKING FORWARD TO READING THE ENTIRE SERIES.

What a great book about stock car racing!!

I just finished White Lightning, and I couldn't put it down. It's a great book about the early roots of stock car racing. It's also a book I can let my kids read without reservation. I'm already looking forward to the next book in the series.

Racing fan or not, you're gonna love this!

Kent and Keith have written a wonderful book that treats the characters like real people and yet gives us a relistic look at NASCAR racing. And a rarity today, I can give my copy to my fourteen year old son and twelve year old daughter now that I'm finished! This has to be the way it was when NASCAR got started. And it has to be the way it is to be inside one of those cars if I ever had the chance. Some of the racing scenes took my breath away. Five stars!

what a ride. racing at its best !!!!

a great ride in the early days of stock car racing. this is a pleasant read if you are a race fan. this is racing excitement at its best. i really enjoyed "white lightning".