Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

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

19 reviews

hollydyer328's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

There really aren’t words… I was 8 years old when 9/11 happened and I didn’t realize how much I didn’t know until I listened to this book. Garrett Graff does a great job capturing the emotions of the day and showing the many perspectives of those involved. There’s some disturbing stuff that is not for the faint of heart. The audiobook is excellent and is definitely the way to go. It’s a 45-person cast covering the voices of hundreds. The inclusion of media segments and air traffic communications with the hijacked planes took my breath away. I am forever changed from reading this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Hate crime, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

judassilver's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child death, Xenophobia, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Cancer, Suicide, and Islamophobia

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 against another edition

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

heather_c_w's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Powerful to listen as an audiobook with each account given its own actors' voice. 

Detailed account really brings home the horror of everything that happened and how world changing it was. Everything is set up chronologically so you hear the accounts of each individual in the moment and return to them at various points. 

This oral history really captures the humanity and the heroism of the individuals involved 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War

Minor: Racism and Suicide

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

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

tmickey's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Racism, Violence, Blood, Islamophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, and Pregnancy

therealjuliabenson's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Fire/Fire injury

ceejay's review against another edition

informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide