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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
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emotional
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
A fast, gripping read that brings the Titanic disaster to life with vivid detail and clear storytelling. Walter Lord packs an impressive amount of insight and eyewitness accounts into a short, highly readable book—it moves like a page-turning novel, but every word is grounded in the true events. Informative without feeling bogged down, it gives you a strong sense of the tragedy and the people involved. If you have even a passing interest in the Titanic, this is an easy recommendation.
This is a classic piece of non-fiction writing. It is the root of so many of the stories about Titanic that are clichés of the incident but it is written about grippingly, and clearly also shows great skill of historical research
I’ve never really been fascinated or interested in the Titanic. Not a huge fan of the movie, it’s a great movie but not one I’ve ever wanted to rewatch. But now, having finished this, I have a new interest in the story. I didn’t think I could get anything new out of it, but it was chock full of things I did not know about this tragedy. I learned a lot!
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So good, so well-researched- no fat on this! I was particularly impressed by the chapter that unpacked the class politics of the time
Fascinating. Written without embellishment, telling a story as best as it can from the memories of those who survived.
I wish it had dealt with the fall-out as well, but I know there are other books for that.
Note: the Titanic wasn’t the first ship to send out an SOS.
I wish it had dealt with the fall-out as well, but I know there are other books for that.
Note: the Titanic wasn’t the first ship to send out an SOS.
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Neat to hear how many real quotes James Cameron used. And lol at the part about smoking and it not yet having been discovered as a cure for anxiety. Can you believe that this was written 30 years after the sinking and still 30 years before the ship was discovered. Crazy…