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Summary: Once you start reading, you can't stop!
Review: Walter Lord's book, "A Night to Remember" is an excellent account of the events that took place on the night the Titanic sank. Unlike so many other books about the Titanic which launch into great detail about the various details of the ship, how and why she was created, "A Night to Remember" starts right off where all the action is--the moment the ship hits the iceberg. The book is also written from a plethora of witnesses and survivors accounts, but it is put together in story form as though you were reading an fiction novel, only to find ou ' all true. I give this book my highest ratings and recommend it to anyone who ever had any interest in shipwrecks.
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Summary: Leaves you hanging. . .
Review: I think this is a really good book. The Twins are helping to plan, what is expected to be, Sweet Valley High's best Prom ever. It is decided that there should be a King and Queen for the Dance. Jessica is prepared to win. . . and so is Elizabeth. Someone spikes Elizabeth's drink at the dance and she starts to act really strangely. Sam and Elizabeth are getting closer and Jessica dosen't like it at all. Elizabeth is seen leaving with Sam and Jessica becomes worried. She knows that there might be trouble if Elizabeth decides to take the jeep somewhere with Sam. Jessica and Todd are brought together to try and save Elizabeth and Sam (Jessica's boyfriend) and the ending seams like it could all be over for Elizabeth, and Jessica is crushed!!
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Summary: Only Walter Lord can write something this magnificent !
Review: This book is a must read! I enjoyed this book, just as much as I enjoyed "Day of Infamy," also by Walter Lord. This is written only as Walter Lord can write it. He gives the minute-to-minute true story of how the passengers ignored the crew, how men snuck aboard lifeboats, and other extremelty interesting facts about the Titanic barely anyone knows. When you read this, you know how the people felt, how the people reacted, and how the atmosphere was on the saviour ship. Read it and enjoy it!
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Summary: Walter Lord's work is 10++.
Review: "A Night to Remember", should be read by anyone even remotely interested in the tragedy of the Titanic. We can thank the Lord,--Walter that is, for giving us such a terrific moment by moment description of the horrible event. This narrative more than any other, has insured that those poor souls who perished on the cold morning of April 15, 1912, will always be remembered!! (Bruce M. Caplan--Editor of "The Sinking of the Titanic".
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Summary: Great book, terrible tradegy
Review: I really loved this book, about as well as you can love a story about this terrible tradegy. This book tells, from first hand accounts about the sinking of the Titanic. Well written, and interesting. Though not an act of fiction, more like docu-drama.
Tom Bux
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Summary: The book that started a movement
Review: As a reader of many Titanic books, there are certain things one expects from a Titanic book. You expect to see a synopsis of her building, conditions surrounding her launching, the collision, and the sinking. Which makes for a intresting, if not bleak read.
But Walter Lord's book, A Night To Remember was an inspiring novel, rather than a bleak textbook. Within the words, Lord has woven the pulsating life that had once existed on the queen of the seas, and draws us in. This books takes the Titanic expirence beyond the pages of books, and into the daily life of the people and crew of the ship that will forever humble and awe us.
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Summary: Best Titanic book available
Review: This book is as interesting to read as any novel. It makes the passengers and crew of the Titanic real people, not just doomed figures from a history book. I particularly found fascinating the photos and passenger lists, as well as copies of dinner menus. With all the attention being focused on the Titanic, due to movies and plays in the works about it, I think anyone who really wants a good, readable account of what acutally happened on April 14, 1912 should read this book
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Summary: An absorbing read...
Review: Dear Amazon.com Readers, With a passenger list in the back, detailing those who survived and those who didn't, "A Night to Remember," is a harrowing account of the Titanic's ill-fated journey from Europe to the United States. The book really tells of the people who spent fortunes to get aboard the Titanic, the most luxurious cruiseliner of the time. I really don't think that this book can be compared to the movie "Titanic." They are both such different stories, that saying one is like the other is missing the point. "A Night to Remember is much more than Hollywook hype. It is really more of a personal account of what happened aboard the ship, and the horrors of the sinking and of the rescues (most people died, only a few survived). I highly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the saga of the Titanic. This book is based solidly on fact, which is one reason I like it so much. I remember reading this several years ago, and being kept up at night as a result.
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Summary: Not too bad, despite its age.
Review: I enjoyed reading Walter Lord's "A Night to Remember". I found it to be an easy and fast read and was quite informative based on the eyewitnesses who were interviewed. However, this is the type of book one would find available for sell in a school weekly reader. Lord does not gives us any real history of the ship prior to departure - he starts the book a few miles from the iceberg. He does not give the reader any real scientific reasons why the ship sunk as it did (flawed metallurgy, etc). Based on Robert Ballard's findings, one could prove that it was impossible for the Titantic to right itself 90 degrees from the surface of the water and plunge straight down (Ballard believes the ship must have snapped in half). Nevertheless, considering that the book was written in 1955 and lacking the scientific evidence we have today, the book was interesting and held my attention. It did an excellent job of showing the tragedy of the California not responding to the distress calls (a fact that was sorely overlooked in the movie, Titanic). I was also surprised to find that all of the female passengers were referred to as "MRS" so-and-so and not by a first name. Even the ship's roster listed the women as "Mr and Mrs" so-and-so. But, I suppose it was indicative of the times (early 20th century).
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Summary: Minute to Minute Book about the last night of RMS Ttitanc
Review: Starting with the lookout fleet seeing the first ice-berg, Walter Lord's The Night to Remember novel begins. W.Lord had truly grasped every angle of everything that happened from the hitting of the ice-berg to the Carpathia arriving at New York with thousands of people waiting to meet their friends or relatives. He interviewed most of the survivors, which made every word of the novel more realistic, and more fascinating. The survivors had also provided almost the exact words of what the passengers or the crew had said. For example, the only baker who survived, had provided W. Lord with thousands of information about the bakery when the ship was starting to tilt, such as providing bread for one of the lifeboats. Very fascinating, very exciting, truly amazing. This book had used thousands of help from suvivors, and of course, uncountable efforts by Walter Lord.
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