A review by lisa_butler79
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Hector Tobar
informative
slow-paced
3.0
Deep Down Dark - Hector Tobar
⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
I read this book for a book with South American connection for my reading challenge. I don't read many non-fiction books probably because I find then hard to get invested in and for this reason I found this book hard to read. I was expecting the untold stories of the 33 miners trapped in the San Jose mine accident in 2010 but the book didn't portray this.
I wanted the more nitty gritty horrors of their survival trapped underground but this book failed to deliver that.
I don't know where I was in 2010 but I have no recollection of seeing this story on the news at all and the book was the first time I knew about this. I had to Google the story a lot whilst reading the book, probably because unlike most non fiction books this book didn't have any photographs to refer to so I struggled to visualise the mine and the rescue.
The book for me just didnt capture the horror, fear and excitement of such a real factual event. It has a lot of facts but the emotional side was missing. I finished the book more out of obligation to my reading challenge then the desire to keep reading.
⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
I read this book for a book with South American connection for my reading challenge. I don't read many non-fiction books probably because I find then hard to get invested in and for this reason I found this book hard to read. I was expecting the untold stories of the 33 miners trapped in the San Jose mine accident in 2010 but the book didn't portray this.
I wanted the more nitty gritty horrors of their survival trapped underground but this book failed to deliver that.
I don't know where I was in 2010 but I have no recollection of seeing this story on the news at all and the book was the first time I knew about this. I had to Google the story a lot whilst reading the book, probably because unlike most non fiction books this book didn't have any photographs to refer to so I struggled to visualise the mine and the rescue.
The book for me just didnt capture the horror, fear and excitement of such a real factual event. It has a lot of facts but the emotional side was missing. I finished the book more out of obligation to my reading challenge then the desire to keep reading.