Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff

36 reviews

booksandbabble's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer and Suicide

greendog95's review

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: War

cyberhavok's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death and War

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Racism, and Islamophobia

jourdanicus's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is the second time I've read this book, but my first time listening to it... Emotional, fascinating, at times harrowing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and War

jbattilochi's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

danimcthomas's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Meticulously reported from first hand sources. The best way to get the full picture of that horrible, horrible day.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Graphic details about 9/11

ericadansereau's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Heartbreaking and incredibly well done, this book had me hooked on every word, though I did have to stop and take many breaks, as the content is so heart wrenching and hard to process through. Highly recommend the audio version. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

jkwiser's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Suicide, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

nadia's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

What an incredible, emotional, heart-wrenching book!

I'm so glad I started listening to audiobooks a few years back so I could experience The Only Plane in the Sky in this format, because reading this in print, while surely still being a 5-star read for me, would not have had the same impact.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

creolelitbelle's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Tears came to my eyes, I audibly gasped and felt chills, and I even shouted out during the listening of this audiobook. The entire book delivers nothing but powerful, emotional accounts of September 11th, 2001 in the US. That September I was 13 and in 8th grade, and even living in Louisiana I will never forget how the Tuesday unfolded. Thank you to all the brave souls who relived the events to recount the history for others and to the author for putting all the individual memories together. No one held back with their interviews, and the book could stand the test of time as a great primary source for the tragedies of September 11th.
Expect heartbreak, graphic gore, and death, because nothing but the truth is found here. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail