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

31 reviews

haemby's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

An amazing recollection of a day that I wasn't alive to see. It's a morbid fascination of a countries response to the worst attack in its history that led me here. The bulk of the attacks being in the city I ended up growing up in with immigrant parents.

I spent my days in school hearing every year where everyone was, but I've never met someone that was there. By reading this book, I feel that I have. By writing this like a dialogue, I could hear everyone speak. I felt what they felt. 

The story of Officer Jimeno and Sgt. McLoughlin hit me the hardest because I chose to watch the movie "World Trade Center" and got to SEE their story on the screen. I didn't know they story was about them before putting the movie on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Islamophobia

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

cyberhavok's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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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

natalieba's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

What a book - so much time, effort, and deep care went into its creation and it is a gift to those who read it now and into the future. I listened to the audiobook, which now seems like the only possible way to experience this oral history. A 45-narrator cast reads the snippets from various people sharing their experiences in September 11, 2001. All who lived through 9/11, no matter how closely linked we were to the tragedy, have a story to tell and it is clear the author intended for readers to be able to truly understand what it was like to live through that day. It includes real recordings of emergency calls and presidential remarks. Truly powerful and something that I’m grateful to have read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Islamophobia

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

knenigans's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and War

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

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