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| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.martianlit.com/books/1/watching-people-burn/ |
| Characters: | Andrew Kehoe |
| Setting: | Michigan,1927(United States) |
Julian Darius
Kindle Edition | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 4 | 70 Users | 14 Reviews
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| Title | : | Watching People Burn |
| Author | : | Julian Darius |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | January 9th 2012 by Martian Lit (first published November 30th 2011) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Crime. True Crime |
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BASED ON TRUE EVENTS.The deadliest school massacre in U.S. history, its victims in grade school. A terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Three separate, coordinated bombings, culminating in a suicide car bomb that killed a public official and sent shrapnel into the crowd. This isn't fantasy. It all really happened... in rural Michigan, in 1927.
This historical screenplay dissects the Bath school disaster. It explores the attacks' mysterious perpetrator, including the haunting final message he left for the police and the traumatic childhood that may have spurred his crimes. But the story also explores the myriad ways the attacks affected its victims, transformed a town, and reflected a moment of transition in American history.
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Ratings: 4 From 70 Users | 14 ReviewsWrite-Up Containing Books Watching People Burn
After graduating magna cum laude from Lawrence University (Appleton, Wisconsin), Julian Darius obtained his M.A. in English, authoring a thesis on John Milton and utopianism. In 2002, he moved to Waikiki, teaching college while obtaining an M.A. in French (high honors) and a Ph.D. in English. In 2011, he founded Martian Lit, an offbeat literary house and comics publisher, for which he writesI received a copy of this book as part of a First Reads giveaway. This books is a screenplay written formatted into chapters. The first scene describes children in a rural Michigan town getting on the bus to school, a very normal thing. Then we read a description of the bomb going off in the school basement. I was hooked and could barely put the book down after that! The book includes photos from the Toledo Blade newspaper and Monty Ellsworth.We go back in time and learn about the life andThis is one messed-up story. I can't believe it's true!
a screenplay i recieved as a giveaway from goodreads. i found it a quick read. it was interesting but hard FOR ME to follow though I am sure not most other people will have difficulties following it as it was quite good. a historic tragic tragedy in in itself. written well though scrren plays really are not good for me to read
Although this screenplay is based on an event that occurred almost ninety years ago, the story is relevant today. In the late 1920s, Andrew Kehoe, a depressed man with a history of a problem childhood, bombed a school in Bath, Michigan. Today, we read stories about bombings almost every day in every newspaper or see scenes of bombing aftermaths on the nightly news. However, most people probably do not give much thought to how these events affect the victims and the communities. In this
This is a dramatic and fictionalized account of the true story about a school bombing. The dialogue is crisp and tight. I really felt that the author made every word count! Every word is important, there is not one line of throw away dialogue in the screenplay. Criminals are made not born.
I received this book as a FirstRead from GoodReads. I was surprised when I received it and found it was a screenplay, but I quickly delved into it full force, finishing it in one day!This true story is so tragic, compelling, and, thankfully, detailed- due mostly to the "neighbor" who happened to witness many of the events taking place. Of course, a little poetic license has to be taken, because no one will ever know the reasons for the lapses in time in the characters lives as well as personal
"Watching People Burn" is a precision piece, producing the kind of visceral reaction I expect from great fiction, but my own ambivalence shocked me. From the opening scene, I was pulled into that bygone era by simple but stunning dialogue, while feeling a sense of anticipatory dread. "History offers no explanations, only interpretations." (from the author's notes On the Title and Script) Darius not only took me through a riveting interpretation of the tragedy at Bath, but offered a explanation
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