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| Who They Were | | Date Created: Nov 05, 2005, 08:49 AM |
 I don't usually bother to review CD's that aren't particularly worthwhile at least in some way and I probably shouldn't for books either. But reading a book takes a while and perhaps it's as worth it to let people know to save the effort as it is to tell them what's in the book or recommend they read it.
Don't bother with Who They Were: Inside the World Trade Center DNA Story: The Unprecedented Effort to Identify the Missing by Robert C Shaler. I'm seriously into forensics and way before the current TV popularity. I've even run for county coroner. I had high hopes for this book detailing the efforts to ID those who perished in the plane bombs and collapse of the WTC towers on 9/11. It's poorly written, boring, tedious, and remarkably uninteresting. I will not be waiting for the movie version...
If you want both the human drama and mechanical forensics of 9/11, read 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn. I reviewed it here. Another great book on archeological forensics that includes the collapse of the Twin Towers is, The Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and other Strange Connections by Charles Pelligrino. I didn't review that one but I should have. It's one of my favorite books along with his take on the sinking of the Titanic called, Ghosts of the Titanic.
So all you budding ME's, coroners, and CSI fanatics save your money on Who They Were and get into some classics. |
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