I read it straightforwardly enough but it didn't stick with me afterwards; far too much emotional manipulation via the sick little girl; trying to avoid Titanic-the-cliché and falling into precisely that trap by using the doomed liner as a metaphor for an alarm signal. Mr Wojakowski with his apparently contradictory memories of serving aboard the USS Yorktown in the 1941-5 war is presumably describing his own NDEs, even if he doesn't realise that's what he's doing. One reviewer suggested the structure of the book mirrored that of the Near Death Experience. At least Willis lays into the James Cameron film, though.