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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: 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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Summary: A Book to Remember
Review: No matter how many times you revisit it, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, the granddaddy of all Titanic books, remains as fresh a read today as it did fifty years ago. Walter Lord is still universally regarded as "the man who knows everything about the Titanic" and this fast-paced, detail-laden, and dramatically visualized book is the reason why and the product of that reason.
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER transports you to the decks of the Titanic that cold April night so convincingly that you are left with an eerie chill-between-your-shoulder blades feeling as the great ship goes down.
You share the early complacency of the passengers on the 'unsinkable' ship. Your sense of impending doom grows as the bows disappear below the glassy Atlantic. You grit your teeth at the obtuseness of the crew of the Californian---why, oh why, didn't they question those white rockets?---and you share in the breathless trauma of those on shore as the story unfolds.
Sure, since the discovery of the wreck many questions have been answered (and a few more posed). Some of Lord's information is dated (the ship did in fact break in half, for example). There have been other 'Titanic' books, and they explore almost every aspect of the disaster in meticulous detail; even Lord's follow-up THE NIGHT LIVES ON falls into this category. But no one has ever told the story of the RMS Titanic any better, and it's likely they never will.
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Summary: The firstest with the mostest
Review: For those of you who are Titanic aficionados, practically everything you will have read or seen about the incident probably used this book as a major reference. Which makes it the Titanic Bible. No, we don't get the love story, but there is enough here to make your emotions work the way they're supposed to. While there are other studies, what makes this one valuable is that the author interviewed over sixty survivors for the work. This is obviously a feat that can never be duplicated again, so we need to thank Walter Lord for getting the information while we can. So we get the statistics of the ship, which are interesting. We also get to know the changes made to sea travel, and society in general due to the incident. But we also get what have now become the famous "What ifs?". There are almost a dozen things, from ship construction to someone merely taking a telegram more seriously, where, if just were to go the other way, it's very possible that nearly everybody could have been rescued. This is essential reading for those interested in the topic.
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