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Loved the collection

Revisado: 11-20-24

Loved the collection of nervousness and anxiety riddled stories mixed with sadness and a bit of “wtf”.

This isn’t “horror” by any means. But it’s a great collection of stories with great narrations. It was nice to hear Stephen king do one himself

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The definitive Titanic-enthusiasts reference

Revisado: 07-19-24

I have this in its physical form as well. On a sea of glass is an amazing collaboration by historians who have spent years putting together the most concise and well organized work on the story of Titanic.

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Excellent retelling of lesser-known side of the titanic disaster

Revisado: 02-18-23

Loved this book as it told far more of the other side of the story from the vantage point of captains rostron and lord. It wasn’t the same story we have heard over and over.

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Great narration uneven storytelling

Revisado: 03-17-22

I greatly enjoyed the book, however I felt that the Juan trippe content was almost bolted on as an afterthought. The content is definitely 3-4 zeppelin over trippe. I feel the author could have benefitted by either increasing the portion on trippe or having two books entirely with one each dedicated to zeppelin and trippe.

Regardless great book and a great listen

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Fair....but seemed rushed

Revisado: 01-27-22

I admittedly struggle with suspension of disbelief and this book tested that. I never really felt a connection with the main character and i just got the vibes of the terrible horrible no good very bad day. This is one of the rare instances where i feel a book needed to be LONGER in initial character development as well as exploration of the "lives"

Narration was excellent.

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Fascinating, beautifully narrated, but a bit rambling.

Revisado: 12-11-21

This book did not diss appoint. Plus having the beautiful dulcet tones of Barack Obama read his own memoir was…priceless.

I found it enthralling, surprisingly blunt, and more than once did it make me emotional.

My only real criticism is that sometimes the stories went on a rambling direction. I feel more topics could have been covered if a little bit of details that, forgive me, just didn’t add much to the story anyways, had been omitted.

I can’t wait for the next volume covering his second term.

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Yawn …..Reese Witherspoon and I clearly do not have the same taste in “thrillers”

Revisado: 11-15-21

The narration was just fine. No issues.

The story however. My god. It could have been handled in less than 1/3 of time and even then I don’t think I would have cared. Situations that are entirely …nonsensical….family dynamics that make no sense. Whiny boyfriends who I was begging for the murderer to go after….

Oddly enough I didn’t hate the protagonist. Just everyone around her.

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Pretty disappointing

Revisado: 10-14-21

It’s basically just a repeat of first hand accounts which is interesting sure, but so little about the ship itself. The narrator sounds like they just learned about human words. Very sterile.

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I had hoped for more history of the ship to be included.

Revisado: 10-09-21

The narration was fine. I just feel it would have been helpful to include more information about the ship itself.

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When the first sentence is blatantly wrong ….

Revisado: 07-12-21

The first sentence says titanic has 3300 on board. Titanic only carried 2227 total. If you can’t get something so commonly known accurate, not going to waste my time.

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