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Not what I expected... | Beyond Stone and Steel: A Memorial to the September 11, 2001 Victims | Brian W. Vaszily

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	• Beyond Stone and Steel: A Memorial to the September 11, 2001 Victims Brian W. Vaszily Hard Shell Word Factory, 2001 - 108 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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Most Moving 9-11 Tribute I Have Read

This slim volume greatly humanizes the lives, hopes, fear and dreams of those about to die. It is fiction...no real names are used. It reminds us that of the thousands who died, every one of them was a living, breathing person, just like us. This is a small masterpiece and deserving of your attention.

Inspiration and Self Examination--A Beautiful Combination

"Beyond Stone and Steel" by Brian W. Vaszily recounts a personal passage from one mental state to another far better one, describes the slow, step-by-step trudge often required by events much larger than ourselves.

That event might be death.
That event might be the loss of a job.
That event might be rejection.
That event might be bankruptcy.
Or the event might be national loss.

For this author, all of these experiences played a part in his transformation. Right from the first chapter, Vaszily makes no secret of the result; what he discovered on his path down misfortune's lane is that he is "a lucky man" in spite of the hardships he has suffered.

This slim volume may be difficult to take, depending on the reader's status with recovery from the events of 9/11. Regardless of one's recovery status, though, it may be just what the doctor ordered.
Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of "This is the Place"

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Not what I expected...

I was intrigued by this book, when I read the description. After I got it, I realized that it was a read once book for me. I read it in one sitting. I am not saying that this was a really bad book. It was just not what I expected. For me, it was not as compelling as the description made it sound. I found it choppy at times and the chapters didn't flow together for me. It felt more like a series of essays or "thoughts" to me than a complete book. If the author was trying to write separate pieces like you would find in a poetry book, than I apologize for not understanding this. I am not one to sit and just read a poetry book, so it may be the style rather than the content that I didn't care for. I think that the idea and the thought behind it is very noble. The author is sincere and I really believe that he meant it to be a memorial.

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A Very Moving Experience

This book was like none other I have ever read... the author seemed to digest this tradegy and somehow turned it into something beautiful. It has reminded me of all that I have, how easily it could be gone and to cherish every moment we are here. It has truly changed the way I see my life. I enjoyed this book very much and highly recommend it to everyone.

He writes what and how I wish I could

I've had this book a long time. I've read it many times. Each time I experience an expanded and enhanced spiritual and psychic understanding of an event I thought I'd come to terms with long ago. Probably because he doesn't journalistically report exactly what happened; probably because he presents the psychic reality of his personal experience: that experience enlarges our own. I was watching a local Spanish station at the time because, of course, the antenna for regular major news media broadcasting was destroyed. At the time I worked in an international on-line network. I remember being physically discomfited by others, elsewhere in the country/world, speaking as though they had some inherent legitimate authority to tell me what was happening less than 3 miles away (by flying crow). But that fortuitous allegation reminded me that the unthinkable event had happened to the "World" Trade Center - not the "New York" Trade Center. I remembered that New York Harbor was a major trading center, a stock exchange in physical goods dating back to the 1600s and housed in the Custom House which is still there. The traders were Dutchmen. I, too, have a semi-tangible psychic reality about the entire 400-year time line. We live in a spiritual world and there is still much that we really don't understand but we do get glimpses of it along the way.

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The tragedy of September 11, 2001 left us each trying to fill a uniquely unfamiliar void in our spirit with something that will make us whole again. Somehow we need to feel the experience in a way that following the news coverage just doesn't accomplish. Brian W. Vaszily found a way, and shares it with us in this brilliant anthology of thoughts, feelings, desires and dreams that were cut short on that terrible Tuesday. Through imagined characters he does what no news story or survivor's account can - he brings us into the lives of the departed - people so much like our friends, our families, and ourselves - as their final minutes play out. This uplifting work gently guides the reader beyond the tragedy of stone and steel to reaffirm what is truly important about being alive.

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