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Summary: An excellent history of the WTC....
Review: This book is an excellent history of the World Trade Center towers, from their conception in the early 1960's to their eventual destruction on 9/11/2001. This book avoids many of the political biases generally associated with this subject, and instead simply tells the story. Surprsingly, the book is a quick read, much like a novel. Highly recommended!
Rating:
Summary: An excellent history of the WTC....
Review: This book is an excellent history of the World Trade Center towers, from their conception in the early 1960's to their eventual destruction on 9/11/2001. This book avoids many of the political biases generally associated with this subject, and instead simply tells the story. Surprsingly, the book is a quick read, much like a novel. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Weak as parts, yet strong as a whole.
Review: When looking at City in the Sky in its parts (chapters), I found it to be a relatively boring book. I did not care what the names of the people were, who decided to design the World Trade Center in a more modern way. Nor did I care, where the business owners protesting against its building ate lunch. Yet then, as I read further into the book, I actually became quite enthralled with the almost Lord of the Rings type quest that these men went through to get the World Trade Center. As a whole, all of these tiny, seemingly boring problems that they ran into, began to amaze me. I had no idea that there was so much hatred toward the building of what I thought to be a beloved national monument. The negative two stars are for a lack of interest in the beginning of the book and a tiny bit of unneeded babble. On the other hand, the positive 3 stars, and actually I'd give it more of a 3 1/2, are for a great, flowing writing style, that while consisting of facts and plain history, reads like a novel. In the end you will be left thinking, "Wow, there's more to those buildings than I thought there was."
Rating:
Summary: Weak as parts, yet strong as a whole.
Review: When looking at City in the Sky in its parts (chapters), I found it to be a relatively boring book. I did not care what the names of the people were, who decided to design the World Trade Center in a more modern way. Nor did I care, where the business owners protesting against its building ate lunch. Yet then, as I read further into the book, I actually became quite enthralled with the almost Lord of the Rings type quest that these men went through to get the World Trade Center. As a whole, all of these tiny, seemingly boring problems that they ran into, began to amaze me. I had no idea that there was so much hatred toward the building of what I thought to be a beloved national monument. The negative two stars are for a lack of interest in the beginning of the book and a tiny bit of unneeded babble. On the other hand, the positive 3 stars, and actually I'd give it more of a 3 1/2, are for a great, flowing writing style, that while consisting of facts and plain history, reads like a novel. In the end you will be left thinking, "Wow, there's more to those buildings than I thought there was."
Rating: 
Summary: A book best written by an engineer or builder
Review: While a book about the technical aspects of the construction of the World Trade Center ideally shouldn't be written by authors without credentials in construction or engineering, the authors present a thorough history of the towers and pose some interesting theories.
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