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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by R. A. Scotti, Back Bay Books, 2004<\/p>\n
I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book.\u00c2\u00a0 I was expecting another fairly dry (no pun intended) description of the devastation wrought by this super storm.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, I got a collection of well-written vignettes of what happened to certain individuals during the storm, along with some pretty well-researched\u00c2\u00a0description of the impact of the hurricane on a macro level.<\/p>\n
The author, R. A. Scotti, is apparently also a mystery\/suspense writer.\u00c2\u00a0 She utilizes these skills well in her telling of the stories in this book.\u00c2\u00a0 I am reminded of how well Ken Follett applies the skills he utilized in writing adventure stories to his more recent work (he managed to keep his readers’ interest while telling a story about building a cathedral, which should be a bit like reading about grass growing).\u00c2\u00a0 I think that many of the authors today who write popular fiction tend to be stuck in their groove and aren’t able to do anything different (e.g., James Patterson, et. al.).\u00c2\u00a0 I guess one reason is that once they start raking in the money doing what they are doing, there is little incentive to try anything new.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I have digressed a bit.\u00c2\u00a0 As I have stated, I think that this book is extremely readable and interesting and my only criticism is that she may have devoted a bit too much discussion as to what happened to the school bus passengers on Jamestown Island.\u00c2\u00a0 Possibly, too much information here.\u00c2\u00a0 Other than that, I recommend this book, especially to anyone who has lived or spent any amount of time in the areas affected (which is\u00c2\u00a0just about all of the Northeast U.S.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by R. A. Scotti, Back Bay Books, 2004 I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book.\u00c2\u00a0 I was expecting another fairly dry (no pun intended) description of the devastation wrought by this super storm.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, I got …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[20,27,16],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","tag-history","tag-natural-history","tag-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}