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Linda Cargill
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Those Who Dream by Day (2014) (2014) |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Hardcover |
| Pages: |
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356 |
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2009-01-15 |
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0979890446 |
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Cheops Books |
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1.4 pounds |
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6.02 x 0.91 x 8.98 inches |
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first edition |
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| Previous givers: |
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1 aardvark (USA: IL) |
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1 LeeAnn (USA: LA) |
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Product Description
"The ship's prow pointed down toward the deep. It looked as if the ship's nose would hit the sea bed hundreds of feet below. Green waters swallowed the decks, devouring the remaining passengers who had been clinging to her to the last second. With an audible groan the ship turned onto its starboard side and disappeared. Dear, God! Dora thought. It couldn't have been more than a few minutes since I left the engine room after the first explosion sounded and rattled the decks . . . Fifteen or at most twenty . . . no more . . ." What was behind the second explosion that finally sank the Lusitania? Dora is about to find out in a tale that spans the First World War from May 1, 1915 to the bitter end in Paris in 1919. Her experiences take her from the Irish Sea to the battlefields of Gallipoli to the Arab Revolt of Lawrence of Arabia and span three continents. Dora must find her own hard Won Peace. Those Who Dream By Day is the first of a series. The Second Volume, The Seven-Pillared House, will soon be available from Cheops Books.
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aardvark (USA: IL) (2008/11/06):
It’s May 1915, and college student Dora Benley is traveling with her parents on the Lusitania. The Germans have warned passengers that they travel at their own risk during wartime, so everyone is understandably nervous about a potential sinking. The ship eventually is sunk, as we all know, but I could not stick around past page 66 to discover what transpired in this dreadful stinker about sabotage aboard the Lusitania. The writing here reminds me of something a 4th grade student would pen when given an assignment to produce a two-page fiction story (and my apologies to the 4th graders who could do better). The actions of the characters bear no relation to what real people would think/say/do in similar circumstances. Dora, immediately upon embarking, has her room thoroughly ransacked by some unknown person, and instead of reporting it to her parents or ship personnel, says nothing, cleans up the room, and purposely keeps it secret. Why? A man on deck wanders up to the Benley family with a story about seeing some mysterious stranger messing with fuses (a bomb?): “That man was standing there playing with fuses. One of them almost went off.”, and Mr. Benley’s response is—get this—“Sir, let me suggest you join the potato sack race that’s about to start on the deck right over there.” And the man actually does! Are you kidding me?? Shortly afterward, Dora goes to find and talk to him, and discovers him lying stabbed on the deck (Dora is the one to find him, on a crowded deck in the middle of a potato sack race?). Even though he has a knife sticking in his back, he can talk, walk, and is as good as new later that day. Then Dora is kidnapped and held hostage in a cabin, where THREE times she is able to free herself from her ropes and gag—what was she bound with, wet spaghetti? Even though she has disappeared, her parents don’t seem overly concerned and nobody bothers searching the ship for her. On her many escapes from wet spaghetti bondage, she can clearly hear everyone in the hallway talking, but they are unable to hear her yelling and beating on the locked door. Oh, and the first time she breaks free, she doesn’t think to pick up the phone and call someone for help (the cord is later found to be cut). At this point I decided not to torture myself any more. The fact that I completed TWELVE chapters in 66 pages should tell you something about the standard of writing in this book. Everything in this book is incredibly implausible, and this clunker should be chucked into the trash without delay.
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