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ereini's review against another edition
5.0
Tomorrow makes eighteen years since The Thing happened. For those of us who are Children of the Storm, it can be painful to think back on what happened all those years ago. This book didn't just take place in a city I had visited. The story occurred in my backyard. The characters were people I knew personally. Reading this was like reading a note from your high school best friend full of inside jokes that you just had to be there to understand. I don't know if I've ever read such a book that felt so personal. I laughed. I cried. And my heart aches for my home more than ever.
downwithbeige's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
elise_dragon13's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
jolles's review against another edition
3.0
The literary equivalent of eating an entire box of triscuits for dinner.
julibug86's review against another edition
3.0
Very informative on both New Orleans as a city and the effects something as devastating as a hurricane can have on a person...one man's experience with Katrina. What happened the days after and how life continued on during the next year and a half.
manadabomb's review against another edition
5.0
I had a trip to New Orleans planned so I decided to go to the library and get some history books. I saw 1 Dead In Attic and remembered seeing Chris Rose on No Reservations talking to Anthony Bourdain. He was a slight mess and pretty emotional about Katrina and the aftermath, even years later. I got the book anyways.
This is basically a series of Rose's newspaper articles that he wrote, editorials pretty much. Very emotional, very raw and, sometimes, very upsetting. He left his wife and kids with family in Maryland and went back to their New Orleans home to report on the aftermath of Katrina. His home was relatively undamaged but Rose completely immersed himself in the misery that other people were living. He described everyone there as living with post traumatic stress disorder and he couldn't have been more right.
Rose completely opened himself up and became an "embedded journalist", as he called himself, and the war he saw took a huge toll on him, which is evident in his writing.
This is truly a good book to read to try and understand what was happening down there that the news didn't report to you. Made me cry more than once.
This is basically a series of Rose's newspaper articles that he wrote, editorials pretty much. Very emotional, very raw and, sometimes, very upsetting. He left his wife and kids with family in Maryland and went back to their New Orleans home to report on the aftermath of Katrina. His home was relatively undamaged but Rose completely immersed himself in the misery that other people were living. He described everyone there as living with post traumatic stress disorder and he couldn't have been more right.
Rose completely opened himself up and became an "embedded journalist", as he called himself, and the war he saw took a huge toll on him, which is evident in his writing.
This is truly a good book to read to try and understand what was happening down there that the news didn't report to you. Made me cry more than once.
thewondering1's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
5.0
xxstefaniereadsxx's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
3.0
Hurricane Katrina was a Category Five hurricane that made landfall in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005. New Orleans was hit exceptionally hard, and most residents were horribly unprepared. The storm surge caused over fifty breeches in the flood barriers, and since New Orleans is below sea level, the water was absolutely devastating. Many people lost absolutely everything and suffered days in deplorable conditions.
I appreciated the on the street perspective of this book. It was hard not to feel incredible sympathy for the city of New Orleans and the people living and cleaning up there. I was less impressed with the formatting, however, and it kept me from truly enjoying this book. It really read like Chris Rose gathered all his articles and crammed them into a book, which I enjoyed much less than I anticipated. I would recommend this book, with the warning that the formatting may not be for everyone.
I appreciated the on the street perspective of this book. It was hard not to feel incredible sympathy for the city of New Orleans and the people living and cleaning up there. I was less impressed with the formatting, however, and it kept me from truly enjoying this book. It really read like Chris Rose gathered all his articles and crammed them into a book, which I enjoyed much less than I anticipated. I would recommend this book, with the warning that the formatting may not be for everyone.
jmackey's review against another edition
5.0
An excellent read for both locals and non-locals of Louisiana. Not your typical Katrina book. I highly recommend to all!