Steel Breeze

Super engaging plot

Revisado: 01-17-23

Perhaps there is a thread of familiarity to past stories, but this one is so different that I quickly stopped being distracted by that and just enjoyed every chapter as it unfolded. Enjoy it!
Use of well-designed audio indulgences truly enhanced this one. The visual readers will miss out on that! The narrator’s tone and inflection were moving, believable and even evocative. He brilliantly portrayed how we engineers think. I struggled a bit in a scene where female characters were interacting with one another so I perhaps over-harshly deducted a star from an otherwise stellar performance.

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A Very detailed account... Very.... Detailed

Revisado: 11-08-18

Certainly a great story about a very interesting figure of our time. This book really does make you feel like you understand the man a little better than is possible through the occasional sound bytes we get on the news. I believe that the length is a bit of a burden - some of the sections are downright dull. They might be interesting to someone who knows the people mentioned in the book. But I would have preferred not hearing every little bit and maybe cutting down to a more typical length.
And no, this book did not put me any closer to my ulterior motive for listening to it: Should I buy BH or not? Knowing that Mr Buffet could step down any time, is the BH value likely to continue its amazing track record afterward? Or, like Apple, is its success so tightly tied to its main champion that the success leaves with him?

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Seems like a solid accounting of the events

Revisado: 09-28-17

I read this because I was curious about the physical causes and human factors which led to the tragedy. I was skeptical that I could find a book that was not trying to beat a political drum, either to condemn fossil fuel consumption or to glorify it. This book delivered. It seems to be a balanced, objective account of what happened. The similarities between operations on a rig and the building of spacecraft (my profession) were striking. The utter complexities involved in engineering achievements on a large scale and the seemingly unwinnable battle over human complacency mark both industries. The key difference has to be that the workers on a rig are personally exposed to considerable daily danger, while spacecraft builders, aside from a few key operations involving highly toxic and flammable propellants, are unlikely to deal with life threatening situations on the job.
"Fire on the Horizon" does a great job of building up a litany of mundane and everyday events, which insidiously conspired basically through chance to lead to the disaster. It does not take much imagination to transport yourself to that rig in the days and hours leading up to the blowout and wonder if there is anything you could have done differently had you been there.

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Everybody loves this book and so did I - Sorry

Revisado: 09-28-17

This is a fantastic story. Young men from average backgrounds, underdogs across the board, full of the same human strengths and weaknesses we all share in varying degrees. To say that a good team is more than merely the sum of a collection of great athletes is nothing new. But this book illustrates the concept in a way that sent my mind racing. Yes, we would all love to be on that team.

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