A review by cher_n_books
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Hector Tobar
4.0
4 stars - It was great. I loved it.
A personable and evocative story told by a journalist that is capable of writing a narrative nonfiction book. Now, on to the movie.
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Favorite Quote: It seems silly to Franklin for his fellow miners to think of themselves as national heroes when all they’ve done is gotten themselves trapped in a place where only the desperate and the hard up for cash go to suffer and toil. They are famous now, yes, but that heady sense of fullness that fame gives you, that sense of being at the center of everything, will disappear quicker than they could possibly imagine. Franklin tries to speak this truth to his fellow miners, but he does so halfheartedly, because he knows the only way to learn it is to live it.
First Sentence: The San José Mine is located inside a round, rocky, and lifeless mountain in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
A personable and evocative story told by a journalist that is capable of writing a narrative nonfiction book. Now, on to the movie.
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Favorite Quote: It seems silly to Franklin for his fellow miners to think of themselves as national heroes when all they’ve done is gotten themselves trapped in a place where only the desperate and the hard up for cash go to suffer and toil. They are famous now, yes, but that heady sense of fullness that fame gives you, that sense of being at the center of everything, will disappear quicker than they could possibly imagine. Franklin tries to speak this truth to his fellow miners, but he does so halfheartedly, because he knows the only way to learn it is to live it.
First Sentence: The San José Mine is located inside a round, rocky, and lifeless mountain in the Atacama Desert in Chile.