A Night to Remember

A Night To Remember

I have read many books abou the Titanic, but I feel I've never really known the truth about what happened that late April night until I read this book. A Night To Remember, by Walter Lord, tells a very accurate minute by minute account of what happened. His interviews with First Class, Second Class, and steerage passengers as well as crew members gives many points of view to the events that occurred the night. Although the constant name changes and recollections can become a bit overwhelming, the message he's trying to get across is apparent. Everyone reacted differently. He also tries to inform readers that if any little thing had gone differently, hundreds of lives could have been saved.

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Anomonyos

I love this book it is on my special bookselve for only amazing books, and its worth the money!

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So Sad

The thing that sticks with me most are the changes in maritime law that were made because, and they were such simple changes . . .

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Thought it would be depressing

I thought this would be morbid and utterly depressing, but I needed AR points. I love that this book is largely about the people who survived. Since eighth grade when I picked it out, I have read it three times and bought myself a copy. If you want something dramatic without too many tears, this is the book for you!

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A Book To Remember

This is my fourth read-around for 'A Night To Remember.' Each time I become more absorbed with the people; their thoughts, their background & their actions aboard the ill-fated luxury liner. I liked the fact Walter Lord didn't focus on any one person but as many of the passengers & crew as warranted to keep the story moving at a brisk pace. His extenisve research is quite evident. A list of the passengers on the 'Titanic' is included. It would have been nice to also include a list of the crew. Due to the fact Lord's chronology bounces back & forth I found myself reverting to previous pages to assure I didn't miss anything. I didn't miss the eerie fact the captain of the rescue ship 'Carpathia' was Walter Lord (no relation). This book is a gripping & chilling (pardon the pun) page turner without a doubt. 'A Night To Remember' is a book to remember & read, read, read. And there you have my point of view.

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100th Anniversary

The book is an interesting read. It takes you through the cast of characters and the unfolding of events on this catastrophic voyage.

A great read

Most of this book is from survivors memories. I'm glad that someone recorded these memories when there were still survivors. I read the book many years ago and am glad it was still in print.

The real deal

This is a classic, and still worth reading. Of all the books and movies around about Titanic, this was written from interviews with survivors, information from newspapers and actual paperwork at the time, facts and fallacies alike. Of all the news reports on the event, only the Times actually said Titanic had sunk.Lord did not focus on any one passenger or group, but tried to give the reader an understanding of all those involved. Be sure to see the movie by the same title. Very well done with no known stars at the time. (David McCallum who played Bride, went on to become the more familiar Ilya Kuriaken in the Man from U.N.C.L.E. and more recently, Dr. Mallard of NCIS.)

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The titanic

This book A night to remamber is about the titanic and the crash with the ice berg and the storie about what some of the actual people were doing all around the time the titanic hit the ice berg. The book was extremely factual and gave the storie of all these different people that were really on the boat and just what they were thinking and exactly how it happened. I thought it was okay but not a very good read the righter did make it extremely factual but he didnt add anything to make it more exciting or any deeper it was just all about the facts. I also didnt like how every time something changed he had the time for every event and action for a person it got a little irritating. I did like how it was the truth though and exactly how the people acted and how some of the people were to ignerant to understand the situation of the ship. It is the true story of the titanic it also follows different passengers on different levels of the ship to help show the situation of each class of persons and how they reacted to the titanics crash. and at the end of the book it has a list of passengers and if they made it out or died and sank with the ship.

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A Night To Remember Book Review

The exciting nonfiction book, A Night To Remember by Walter Lord is a great read of anyone. A Night To Remember has all the detail about the sinking of the all famous Titanic. Walter Lord writes about the perspectives of real Titanic survivors. The theme of this great book are that things are not always what they seem. On the night of April 14, 1912, the mighty Titanic sent sail for her maiden voyage, but suddenly there was a collision with a iceberg. Most of the passengers were sleeping away in their cabins when a ¿grinding jar¿ noise came in the White Star Line ship. Some barely heard the noise, others heard the noise and knew it the ship hit an iceberg, and most of the passengers heard it and either went back to sleep or doing some sort of business. The crew and passengers didn¿t know what they were in for when the bow of the Titanic was leaning forward and the 2207 passengers had lifeboats for only 1157 passengers. One passenger quoted, ¿God Himself could not sink this ship.¿ The textual support of this book was excellent because Walter Lord himself interviewed many of the titanic survivors to get many kinds of views during the commotion and feelings in the ship. There was many connections people had in the ship, like some had there honeymoon there, but had to be separated because women and children had to go on the lifeboats first and maybe some men. It¿s like when you have to depart from your husband in the airport, but worst because he might not find another lifeboat for himself. But some wives wanted to stay with their husband instead of being safe in the lifeboats. The part when the almighty Titanic hits the iceberg, Walter Lord describes it very thoroughly and has many views from the passengers and crews to make the reader image and understand the actual crash of the ship. At the time when the chunks of ice flew on the White Star Line¿s deck, the passengers didn¿t scream and make a commotion, but instead picked up the pieces as ¿souvenirs.¿ When I was reading that part, I thought shouldn¿t they be scared because now there¿s a big hole in the ship that will sink the whole ship? Because of the sinking of the Titanic, nowadays in cruise ships the crew have an hour long safety procedure and the ship has enough lifeboats for all of the passengers and crew. A Night To Remember has the real and true facts about the crash of the Titanic.

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AMAZING

This book is off the chain, it gets you at the edge of your seat wondering what will happen next, i recommend this amazing book to anybody you won't regret it at all TRUST ME

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A Night to Remember Book Review

A Night to Remember was definately the right choice to learn about what really happened that memorable night on the Titanic. There were so many personal experiance that were not told or known that are mentioned in this memoir. Many of the Passangers thought that the Titanic was unsinkable, but boy where they wrong! Since all of the passangers on the ship thought that the gigantic boat was to have no problems, when told to go up on the main deck for safety, they left some of their most prized possesions in their cabins. They left things as valuable as jewlery costing up to $2,000! They left these things thinking they would come back to them, but once they were up there was no going back. As the water level kept on rising people started believing that something this tragic could happen to the Titanic. All in all the memories told in this book, were very helpful in understanding more about what went wrong that night and what people did to try and keep themselves together.

A Night to Remember

On April 15th, 1912, one of the greatest tragedies in American history happened, at one o'clock in the morning in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. When the Titanic sank, over 1,500 lives were lost, with just 651 saved. In A Night to Remember, Walter Lords takes readers second by second through the disaster. Lords not only gives you views of the first class passengers during the accident, but he also gives a close-up of the crew and captain when it happened. From the chaos of loading the lifeboats to the crew's decision of whether or not to go back to the scene, you feel as if you are actually there. Lords gives an accurate and detailed account of the night the Titanic sank, from beginning to end. Even though this book was first published over fifty years ago, it's still a must-read today.

The Titanic sinking

I thought the book A Night to Remember was great. There was a lot of suspense, which I liked. It kept me reading more and more without wanting to stop. It was very detailed to the smallest measure. There was so much detail that it took forever to get to the next big part. What I disliked was that it was very list for example the author would say Bruce Ismay got his watch and Charlotte Barkis got her jewels and so on. The book also doesn¿t have a main character it was all listing random names. I definitely think the author should have added a main character. I rate this book a four because it as to listy otherwise it would be a five.

The accout to remember

The first time i picked up this book i knew it was going to be good. As a history lover and Titanic freak this book had me from the first word. Walter Lord captures the truth of the night from points of view varying from the crew to first class leaving no story untouched and as for that sam guy on the page... you suck. How could anyone not like this book, it phenominal!.

THIS BOOK SUCKS!!!!!

It is so boring! It goes on and on about the same thing! I'm reading it for school and it hasn't one bit of action! I don't even want to read the book and when i do homework on it, i have nothing to say!

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A Review To Remember

Do you like tragic action stories? If you do then I'm almost positive that you will be hooked on 'A Night to Remember' by Walter Lord. Lord makes you you feel like you had been on 'The White Star Liner' when it all went down. This book is about the 'unsinkable' ship also known as the 'Titanic' It starts getting interestingwhen on a foggy, freezing night the captains know that there are icebergs out in the ocean but do not know where they are until they spot a large one only a few yards in front of them. The ship can not turn fast enough without side-swiping the beautiful, yet deformed chunk of ice. The setting of this tragic, but true novel is on the 'Titanic' in the bitter, cold Atlantic Ocean. The main character in this tear- jerking novel is the one, the only, 'unsinkable' ship. Beware this book will make you cry unless you don't have a heart. The thought of this ever happening is horrifying. Take a moment to imagine what it was like for the fearful passengers. I bet you had tears in your eyes! Even though this did happen, Lord is trying to recreate this tradgedy and let you know that anything can happen. The boring part of this novel is the details about random first, second, and third class passengers, because he is waisting time. Otherwise, this is a great and touching book, but I would only recommend it to people who can handle it.

A Night To Remember

A Night to Remember By Walter Lord On April 10th, 1912 the biggest ship of the time started its incomplete voyage from England to New York. Its name was Titanic. Important facts in this book are that the Titanic was equipped with the safest devices of the time so it was labeled ¿unsinkable¿. However as the book goes on it does not keep its label. On April 14, 1912 the Titanic hit an iceberg and went down. The book ¿A Night to Remember¿ was packed with action and excitement both good and bad. When the rescued passengers were on their life boats they couldn¿t believe their own eyes. What they had seen was the Titanic sticking out of the glassy water at a 90 degree angle. Some of the saved passenger couldn¿t handle seeing people sink as the Titanic went down under. The book says that the safe passengers had a mental video tape in their mind of what they saw happen. Out of their control the video tape in there mind kept on replaying the images they saw that night. They just couldn¿t get the images out of their minds. It was a shame that such a big and beautiful ship had to sink. The Titanic was impressive enough with out her embellishment. It weighed 46,328 gross tons. The Titanic¿s dimension was 882.5 feet long, 92.5 feet wide and 60.5 feet from waterline to boat deck. The Titanic was 11 stories high and 4 city blocks long. On the ship there were a total of 1,316 passengers. 62% of those passenger lost their lives on that day while only 38% of the passengers lived.

Interesting

I think the book was interesting. It was in detail and it made you feel like you were actually there. It was very specific. I enjoyed reading it. I would recommend this book to people who are interested in history.