A Night to Remember by Walter Lord Summary and Reviews
|
List Price: Our Price: $4.95 You Save: $2.04 (29%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here) Category: Book See more book details and other editions |
|---|
Book Reviews of A Night to Remember
Book Review: Best of breed, best of show in Titanic narratives
Summary: 5 Stars
People--some people anyway--complained that the Cameron film lasted longer than it took the Titanic to sink. Here's a slim little volume that it will take you about as long to read as it would to watch the movie (not that I'm dissing the flick--seeing the film prompted me to re-read this classic and certainly helped me visualize the action). Minute by minute indeed. I'm joining the list of readers who have given this superb recreation a "10" because it's absolutely gripping, short enough to read in a sitting, and absorbing enough,too. Hey, any Bantam editors out there? How about a pricey illustrated edition? The prose is worthy of it. Perfect winter reading, too. Turn the heat down for the last sixty pages to get the full effect.Book Review: Best story about the 'RMS Titanic'
Summary: 5 Stars
'A Night Remember'is the best detail story of the sinking of the ill fated ship.The book give the sence of pain of the people who lost lovers and family members!I say go and buy this BOOK!!Book Review: Boring
Summary: 2 Stars
In my opinion A Night to Remember is a boring book! It has it's moments where it's good but most of it is pretty bad! Most of the book is peoples quotes. You don't get a feel of what really happened. There also wasn't enough emotion. They made it seem like it wasn't a big deal. When they did express the action in in this book it wasn't exciting. On a scale from 1-10 I would give this book a 4. The reason why I wouldn't rate it any less is because I have read much worse books and compared to the other books I have read this is about in the middle of the rating system.Book Review: CAUTION
Summary: 2 Stars
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.Book Review: Captivating, to say the least!
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently [re]read "A Night To Remember" after seeing the James Cameron film "TITANIC". Walter Lord's book is a riveting [no pun intended] and thought provoking narrative of the greatest sea disaster since man took to the oceans. I cannot say anything bad about this book -- it's one of the best reads you'll ever experience. I suspect there will be several places where you'll put the book aside, shake your head in disbelief, and say to yourself, "How on Earth did this happen?" Doug Griswold