- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Fourth Estate (6 Sep 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007184697
- ISBN-13: 978-0007184699
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 186,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Powerful in places but a bit precious overall,
By Barton Keyes "barton keyes" (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Windows on the World (Paperback)
If you chopped this book into several parts you might get one and half decent books. There would be a gripping and moving fictitious account of the horrible deaths of those trapped in the World Trade Center on 11th September one one hand and a slightly precious and very gallic essay on the meaning of that for rest of the world on the other.Combined the two don't really work -- although Beigbeder is very very good at altering voices between the sections so that the imaginative desciptions of what happened are claustrophobic and frightening. But his thoughts are a long way short of a crystallisation of the meaning of the outrage and at times they slip into the embarassingly commonplace.But perhaps that's the point?
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A mixed bag,
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This review is from: Windows on the World (Paperback)
This book is on the one hand very good, but on the other hand quite tedious and hard to read. Really it is a book of two halves. The chapters alternated between the story of a fictional family trapped in the World Trade Centre on 911 and the authors philisophical musings on the meaning of these tumultuos events. The chapters about the fictional family are very good. The emotions are conveyed really well and whilst we will never know just how it was for those trapped before the collapse of the buildings, this book gives as close a desciption as we will probably ever get. The author has been brave in writing about this topic and his aim of telling the story of the last minutes of those poor peoples lives is achieved. You develop a real sympathy for the family involved and all the characters are likeable, and very human. The author does not glamourise them or the situation at all which is what was required in a novel about 911. However, this is spoilt somewhat by the authors own musings in the alternate chapters. Initially I could tolerate this but in the later stages of the book it really grated on me and I ended up skipping these chapters. The author's devotion of so much time to his opinions seemed self-indulgent in the context of the story he was telling. Perhaps this idea would have worked better if these chapters were shorter, but they seemed to take over the book and have more time devoted to them than the fictional story. Overall this is half a good book, but certainly a brave one in tackling this topic and in the style in which it is written, whether you like it or not.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Lost in translation?,
By Tim Coupe (Malvern ,Worcs) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Windows on the World (Paperback)
This book left me with mixed feelings. The fictional account of the slow death of the World Trade Centre and the horror within was evocative and moving. However the juxtaposition of this with the sometimes banal musings of the narrator just didn't work for me. The fears and tensions about events in 2001 are better explored in 'Saturday' by Ian Mcewan.
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