Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff

18 reviews

maarsargo's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Islamophobia

pippin98's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicide and Islamophobia

katiej's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

Emotional and heartbreaking account of what people were going through on the worst day in modern memory. Tough read but so important.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and War

nataliebootlah's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This is one of the most difficult books I’ve ever read.

I think nearly everyone remembers exactly where and what they were doing on September 11th, 2001. The Only Plane in the Sky enhances those memories with first-hand accounts from survivors, first responders, witnesses, and other everyday people turned heroes who were at the World Trade Center and Pentagon when they were attacked. Graff uses transcripts, personal reports, news broadcasts, documents, and voicemails to recreate 9/11 minute by minute. It is a harrowing, heartbreaking piece of American history. Despite the anguish and despair, it was inspiring to see how Americans came together immediately after and the days following. 

It is also a reminder of the twenty-year war resulting in thousands of innocent lives lost on both sides. It’s humbling and vastly important to recognize how 9/11 changed our world as we knew it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Gore, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Child death, Chronic illness, and War

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Violence, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Islamophobia

jerowney's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

lovinglyread's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Xenophobia, Blood, and Islamophobia

lorie336's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

How do you rate tragedy? This book opened up more info for me about this terrible day. I personally didn't know anyone that died, but this day from then on shaped my future and back then I had been 20 years old. All these eyewitness accounts from the VP to people in Congress to firefighters and then to know you lost a friend or loved one. The story of heroism that day to show that our country could not be defeated, powerful as ever. For those who were too young or had not been born then this is one of the books you need to read, I don't know how many times I cried or just drifted off into space thinking where I was at that given point of the day. For those who remember this may be a difficult read.

There are images in this book so trigger warnings of suicide, devastation of buildings, talk of people jumping. Death and devastation overall.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

Devastation due to terrorism.