Rethink: Cause and Consequences of September 11

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Summary: Coffee table photo book
Review: Another elegantly published 600-page photo book world we all easily can live without. RETHINK is an overwrought, "full of itself" and pretentious treatment of the post 9/11 terrorism war. To my husband and me it is the classic example of proverbial "coffee table" book in the endless stream of vanity self publishing.

Granted, this photo album has some great images by Mr. Knight and by few others, nice design touches here and there and the obligatory these days' presence high profile essay contributors.

We expected something different, maybe less predictable form RETINK. The previous reviewer raved about it. But it is my fault -- I should hold to my money and not spend it at Barnes & Noble for the sleek photo book that we opened once. Maybe more luck next time...

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Summary: Photobook at its best...
Review: Everyone of us saw the pictures of 9/11 and its post events. But I have never seen the pictures in such an design and order. They make you think again about what happend and why it occured.
This book is indispensable for everyone who is interested about the world we are living in. Two Thumbs Up

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Summary: RE: Coffee Table Book
Review: You know it's sad, like the people below from Chicago illustrate quite well, that some people just don't get the true purpose of a book like this. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, no matter how wrong they are, but there is a point in which it just becomes so mind blowing as to some people's ignorance.

This book's purpose is to open people's eyes up to the brutal and horrific world in which we now all live in. America was awakened by the events of 9-11, but so few realize that this is what people face day in and day out throughout the rest of the world. I would no more call this a coffee table book, than call Schindler's List just your typical movie drama. "Rethink" tells a story, one in which we are still creating & doesn't have a foreseeable end in sight. The key to all history is to know what you've been through, so you don't repeat the same mistakes twice. Pain, suffering, & death isn't something which is solely confined to our immediate surroundings, it's a worldwide plight to try and survive in this ever more demanding and deadly environment. The stakes are higher now and the consequences of our actions are even more so. We all have choices, either to be open and realize that we aren't isolated in the actions & decisions we take & make, or to keep going down a path of self destruction, while ignoring the rest of our earthly inhabitances leading us to a catastrophic ending to this story, which has not yet been written.

As the reader from Chicago so eloquently tries to state, "RETHINK is an overwrought, "full of itself" and pretentious treatment of the post 9/11 terrorism war." Take a closer look at this book and you will come to find out that a lot of these pictures weren't taken around or just after 9-11, but throughout the past decade or two. This is an accumulation of our world's actions along with the results of what we've done leading us into the present. The purpose of this book, is to try & make us "Rethink" what we've done, should've done, and the biggest of them all, what will occur down the line & next if we continue down this rocky path that we're currently on ??