Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love.
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It takes 8 hours and 52 minutes into the audiobook before any sort of action happens.
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if you like to hear each passenger's back story and clothes they wore that last day, this book is for you.
A very solid, Erik Larson book! Rife with the personal accounts and touches of sensory information that bring his accounts to life.
I'm just not interested in finishing it right now. Maybe there are just too many details about too many different things. I'm also listening to this on audio book, so maybe this is better to be read in a physical book. I might get back to this later. Now just isn't the right time.
