A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
And a book to forget. The drawer of this event is lost in a welter of facts. Sure you got to have the bloody things, but couldn't the writer have made an attempt to transport us into the Titanic on that fateful night?
As a reader, I would have liked to roam the ship as she headed out on her maiden voyage. I would have liked to see and hear the passengers going about their life on this floating city,. Got some feel of what it was like working the boilers, serving the moneyed wretches, the activities of people not so well off.
Instead the writer hits an iceberg. We get the real life interviews dealing with different events. I've read the np more recent work dealing with the miserable president of the line who happened to be on board and managed to save himself when so many died. The book could have been so vivid. As it is , the treatment is as cold as the icebound seas the Titanic foundered in.
A workmanlike effort that spawned a movie or two. But other than that, it doesn't cut the ice.2/5
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As a reader, I would have liked to roam the ship as she headed out on her maiden voyage. I would have liked to see and hear the passengers going about their life on this floating city,. Got some feel of what it was like working the boilers, serving the moneyed wretches, the activities of people not so well off.
Instead the writer hits an iceberg. We get the real life interviews dealing with different events. I've read the np more recent work dealing with the miserable president of the line who happened to be on board and managed to save himself when so many died. The book could have been so vivid. As it is , the treatment is as cold as the icebound seas the Titanic foundered in.
A workmanlike effort that spawned a movie or two. But other than that, it doesn't cut the ice.2/5
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