Asha’s Reviews > 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation > Status Update
Asha
is 33% done
It’s interesting for a nonfiction on a historical topic to be so committed to time and place with no analysis. It’s not quite written like a piece of fiction but it’s also not an explainer. (I haven’t read the massive second book worth of appendices - 700 ebook pages of appendices) I am both very locked in but also I might benefit from more context and extrapolation here or there.
— Oct 23, 2026 02:45AM
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Asha
is 7% done
I will say, knowing where it ends, that the authors choice of writing it “in the moment” with lots of anecdotes and this storyteller’s flow makes everyone look like a lunatic. DID YOU NOT THINK?!?? I am fascinated. I am watching a 100 year old train unfold over months and I’m having a ball.
— Oct 21, 2026 10:35PM
Asha
is 5% done
Sometimes you look at a book and think, ah yes, that’s exactly what I’m looking for. And sometimes you impulse pick up one of the Library Skip-the line loans and find yourself fascinated. Let’s watch the century old train wreck unfold. (Financial investigations fill a “true crime” shaped void in my white-woman stereotype. I avoid true crime because of the misery tourism and exploitation but this? Popcorn.
— Oct 21, 2026 09:33AM