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The Crash Detectives
- Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters
- By: Christine Negroni
- Narrated by: Christine Negroni
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 285
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Story4 out of 5 stars 254
In The Crash Detectives, veteran aviation journalist and air safety investigator Christine Negroni takes us inside crash investigations from the early days of the jet age to the present, including the search for answers about what happened to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. As Negroni dissects what happened and why, she explores their common themes and, most important, what has been learned from them to make planes safer.
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2 out of 5 stars
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MISSLEADING TITLE.
- By Daniel Schneider on 11-02-16
- The Crash Detectives
- Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters
- By: Christine Negroni
- Narrated by: Christine Negroni
Didn't finish
Reviewed: 03-09-18
Book is more about crash speculation than investigation, and seems more determined to belittle the motivations of other speculators than to support arguments made. I couldn't finish it.
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Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart
- An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail
- By: Carrot Quinn
- Narrated by: Erin Spencer
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,619
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,486
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,479
Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the Internet. The city makes her numb, and she's having trouble connecting with others. In a desperate move, she breaks away from everything to walk 2,660 miles from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. It will be her first long-distance hike.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Like an infinity of switchbacks...it just never ended
- By Anonymous User on 12-20-17
- Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart
- An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail
- By: Carrot Quinn
- Narrated by: Erin Spencer
Too bad
Reviewed: 10-16-17
This book was hard to finish. I love stories about hiking and especially the Pacific Crest Trail. But this book seemed more like a story of an aimless young woman looking for something that she never really found. I found myself wading through the descriptions of the author trying to trap the Catholic virgin with sex (and then wondering why it didn't work out) and hoping for more time spent experiencing the trail. Overall, the sex was a distraction. Every section of the hike seemed like a race to the next town for hotels and town food and access to the technology the author spent so much time wanting to get away from. I guess establishing that premise wasn't worth exploring after all. The near-death experiences in Washington indicated to me that the author spent little time learning to read the trail even after five months on it. That kind of neglect in the 2017 season would likely have ended in death. In the end it became clear that the author was not looking for an escape from technology but a path to companionship, and in this case the Trail did not provide. I guess I can sum up my impressions best by saying that the story was amusing as long as I thought the author was a twenty-one (two maybe) year old, fresh out of school wanderer that just hadn't gotten her bearings yet. When I found out she turned thirty-one on the trail, the story turned tragic. How can one waste so much of this amazing life by walking without a direction? Well, that's it I guess. To each his own. Hike your own hike as they say. My two cents.
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