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Titanic, First Accounts (2012)

by Tim Maltin(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0143106627 (ISBN13: 9780143106623)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Penguin Classics

review 1: This book wouldn't make a good movie (not that a good book would necessarily translate to a good movie). It's too dry and factual by a long-shot to work on the screen. But there's something about reading people's experiences in their own words that makes this book special nonetheless. That the people left the boats so calmly, that there was little rush and no pandemonium as people got on the lifeboats, that people doubted the ship would sink till the very end, it's all remarkable. I can only imagine how heart rending it must have been to the survivors to watch and listen for that terrible half hour while those in the water slowly died of hypothermia, knowing there was no hope, fearing that their boats might be swamped if they returned to try to save them. What a collosal t... moreragedy. Even 100 years later--even in a book this dry--the story of the Titanic has lost none of it's power to inspire terror and sympathy.
review 2: This book is a fascinating read! If you have any interest in the Titanic disaster, this book of actual survivor accounts, recorded in both the American and British official inquiries and newspaper interviews, is simply a must read. The diversity of the accounts as well as the repeated testimony from different people viewing the same events is amazing reflection of human perception and behavioral observation. The middle starts to sound the same but stick to it because it pays off later when articles and letters "recap" the events as a summary. Very good, if you are interested. Since it is the 100th anniversary of the disaster as every PBS and endless Titantic movies being run on cable and the 3D version in theaters now will attest to. less

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