Nr. 21 in Geschiedenis
The Library Book
- NYT-bestseller · 16 weken op de lijst, hoogste notering nr. 6
- Reese's Book Club
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Over het boek
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’” The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before.
Waar de score vandaan komt
De bronnen komen gemiddeld uit op 8,0 over 245 beoordelingen — nog niet veel, dus de stem van de lezers weegt voor 62% mee en de rest trekt richting het Geschiedenis-gemiddelde van 8,0. Zo komt 8,0 tot stand.
| Bron | Gemiddelde | Beoordelingen | Gewicht |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8,3 | 12 | 5% |
| Hardcover | 8,0 | 233 | 95% |
In dit boek
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Als dit je beviel
Dezelfde plank — Geschiedenis — met scores tussen 7,9 en 8,1, het dichtst bij dit boek.
