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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 11:46, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky

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• ... that in the book The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky, Ken Dornstein reconstructs the life of his older brother David, who dreamed of becoming a great writer but died in the bombing of ‪Pan Am Flight 103‬?

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5x expanded by MelanieN (talk). Self nominated at 02:43, 25 January 2015 (UTC).

Moving story on good sources. What do you think of not telling it all, because then there's no need to click?

ALT1: ... that The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky is "an act of love, but it is also an expression of the power of sibling rivalry"? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:16, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Hmm. Well, I am not usually fond of "what the heck are they talking about?" hooks, but I'll defer to your greater experience. --MelanieN (talk) 22:52, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

No need to defer ;) - Then please prune the original, too much of a good thing, and is it just me thinking that you can't "reconstruct the life" as you can't "construct the life"? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:58, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

OK, good point. What do you think of any of these? --MelanieN (talk) 23:25, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

ALT2: ... that The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky was David Dornstein, who dreamed of becoming a great writer but died in the bombing of ‪Pan Am Flight 103‬?

ALT3: ... that The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky was David Dornstein, who had once outlined a novel about a writer who dies in a plane crash?

ALT4: ... that The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky was David Dornstein, who had planned to write a great book but instead became its subject?

Good ideas! ALT4 too harmless, how about

ALT5: ... that David Dornstein, The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky who outlined a novel about a writer who dies in a plane crash, died in a plane crash‬? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 00:14, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

ps: how do you feel about an infobox? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 00:16, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

I like it - mystery and irony in one sentence. Maybe we could omit his name? I'm good with either 5 or 6. Good idea about an infobox. --MelanieN (talk) 00:36, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

ALT6: ... that The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky, who had outlined a novel about a writer who dies in a plane crash, died in a plane crash‬?

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:28, 17 February 2015 (UTC)