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Summary: Not so good
Review: Judged by the reviews below, you'd thin this is a masterpiece, maybe the best bok ever written about TITANIC. But then you'll realize that the book is just 208 pages long ( appendices included ), it was written in 1955 ando so, consequently, lacks many new material that surfaced along time. It's a good book only for someone who is introducing himself to the TITANIC.
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Summary: CAUTION
Review: Bear in mind the following fact when reading this book: it was written in 1955. Lord interviewed a lot of characters still a live. He prefered not to create dialogues nor try to figure out what was going through people's minds. But, read a book with one thousand characters and not one of them being special is sometimes hard work. The narrative ( a kind of journalistic style ) is dry, typical of that age. The facts pile one after another with no time to sink into the reader's brain. All in all, I don't think it is a good book, but just a good attempt to write a good book about the TITANIC.
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Summary: Among the best written Books about the Titanic Disaster
Review: A Night to Remember is a book that must be part a historians collection. Walter Lord done an excellent job researching the Titanic and the events leading up to the disaster. As a maritime historian, I have found A Night to Remember and The Night lives on to be very good books.Most people are unaware of how long it took Walter Lord to write A Night to Remember. It took him 20 years to complete his research and the book is considered to be historically accurate.Walter Lord paved the path for historian to research Titanic. For those interested in Titanic and the disaster this is a very good book to start with. It is very interesting how you can read this book and almost feel like being there. When I read this book, I can see the events unfold in my mind.
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Summary: Takes your breath away and you'll always remember it
Review: This is by far one of the best books I've ever read. You can watch the movie and remember certain scenes, and then read the book and feel like you're there and feel the emotions the passengers felt that haunting April night. And the feeling doesn't leave. I'll always remember this book because the details were there and Walter Lord captured the sinking like no one else could. It was completely captivating and took my breath away.
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Summary: A Night to Remember
Review: Publishing for the first time in 1955, Walter Lord's novel remains unsurpassed in accuracy and excitement. To fulfill his purpose, Lord interviewed the few Titanic survivors in effort to create the most precise and vivid picture of what happened out in the Atlantic on that moonlit night in 1912. This book allows readers to step on board the luxury liner with an explosion of the emotions the passengers felt that night they knew there was no where to go but into the freezing icy water of the ocean. Devoid of Hollywood glamour, Lord tells exactly what happened when it happened as told by those who were actually there. With chapters brilliantly titled with heart-wrenching words of the passengers, Lord is able to describe in complete detail the events as they occurred minute-by-minute from the point of view of different passengers. Some passengers stayed in bed despite the jolt of the iceberg, some continued to drink and smoke in the lounges, and some went up on deck to investigate while others played a game of soccer with chunks of ice. By his exceptional use of lead-ins and transitions, Lord's novel flows in a remarkable manner. Descriptions are depicted in such intense detail that any reader can taste the gourmet meals of the first class, see the excessively adorned quarters, hear the chilling silence, and feel the pain of the frigid water.
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Summary: This really was a night to remember
Review: When I read this book, it brought tears to my eyes when I learned how the steerage passengers were forced to stay in the lower decks even when the Titanic was sinking. I found it absurd how people in the first class were given the chance to live when third class, who were the same as the first class (the only difference is the ticket they held in their hand) were freezing to death in the ice-cold waters of the Atlantic. Because the Titanic was believed to be "unsinkable", there wasn't enough lifeboats for the 2,500 lives onboard. There were a lot of families seperated because women and children were the first to get into the lifeboats while the men were forced to stay on the sinking ship until almost every woman and child was safe in a lifeboat. I am so glad that sociaty has changed so that everyone is treated equal and no one judges you on how much money you have or what your class is on a boat.
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Summary: Bare Bones Account
Review: Walter Lord is one of the best historical authors of the 20th Century. His storytelling talent shows through in his classic account of the sinking of the Titanic. The book's only flaw is its brevity. The narrative portion is only 135 pages in small paperback form and starts just as the ship is about to hit the iceberg. There is no background story to give the reader perspective of the ship's construction or of the passengers whose stories it follows. Also lacking is much detail about the aftermath of the sinking. The actual sinking is retold in riveting first person accounts that detail those fatal final moments and all of their tragedies and ironies. In fact, Lord's account was good enough to make me want to seek out a more complete history of the disaster.
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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: Fascinating book
Review: This is hands down the best book on the Titanic. Lord gives you not only the feel of being there, but a sense of the tragedy, and the way in which it changed the world in it's wake. If you only want to read one book on the subject, than look no further than this one.
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Summary: The book to start with if you're interested in the Titanic
Review: For entertainment purposes, I recommend scanning down through the reviews of this book and reading any that are less than 5 stars. Hoo boy, what can you say? Walter Lord's book is a classic, the result of numerous interviews with actual survivors, and is probably as close as we will ever get to a complete recounting of the events of that awful night (also read Lord's "Night Lives On" where he adds some new information and corrects some errors he made in this book - he wasn't the only person caught out when the ship turned up in two pieces!). If you're just getting into the story or need to be cured of some of the more egregious excesses in Cameron's film, this is the book you need to read. On the other hand, if you're a victim of our educational system, go watch the movie. Hmmm.
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