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: Some readers value the book for its brutal honesty about the human side of a hero, while others found the heavy focus on personal life and business ventures to be a departure from typical "space-centric" memoirs.

Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon is a 2009 memoir by , the second person to walk on the lunar surface. While it touches on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, its primary focus is Aldrin’s "long journey home"—the difficult decades of life back on Earth following his historic achievement. Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home f...

: Critics like those at Vanity Fair described it as an account of the "soul-sucking depression that awaited back home," while Kirkus Reviews called it an "admirable account of an icon". : Some readers value the book for its

: The book explores the "anticlimax" of returning to Earth after reaching the literal peak of human exploration. : Critics like those at Vanity Fair described