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Title: The Mammoth Book of the Titanic: Contemporary Accounts from Survivors and the World's Press by Geoff Tibballs ISBN: 0-7867-1005-5 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 10 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Annoying
Comment: I'll read anything to do with the Titanic, but from now on, I'm going to purchase more carefully (or I'll tell other people to do so, this was a Christmas present!) This is one of the most tedious Titanic books I've ever read. (Maybe I've read too many? I own 12!) At 500+ pages long, it doesn't beat the latest Harry Potter book, but with that amount of detail in a book, it took me a fair few weeks to plough through, and that's saying something! The last Titanic book I read was done and dusted in a couple of hours.
The bits I did enjoy in this book was the middle section. If you want to hear every single little detail about how the Titanic was built, how much each little item of cutlery cost, then read it. If I was to read this again, I would skip maybe the first 40 pages. The latter section of the book, is mainly the trial thing after the Titanic sinking. The first part is OK, with all the witnesses accounts of the sinking, but then it starts to review it all, and it's so dull!
Also with this book, there are a LOT of press cuttings - with the majority being very repetitive. The most interesting in this are the survivor's stories of what happened before and happened after the Titanic sank. There are a lot of glaring inconsistencies during these reports, some of which are exaggerated so much, that they're almost the style of a Hollywood blockbuster (hmmmmmmmmmm). It's quite funny when you read these survivor's accounts, especially one after the other (the accounts are ordered as to what lifeboat the survivor's got off on ie. all the boats on boat 15 are all grouped together). Obviously some of the survivors would have been deeply shocked after this tragedy, but some of them are so overly exaggerated, it's actually hilarious.
A good book to have if you're a Titanic fan. If you start getting bored, skip to the chapter. Would save a lot of time!
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Title: Ghosts of the Abyss: A Journey Into The Heart of the Titanic by Donald Lynch, Don Lynch, Ken Marschall, James Cameron ISBN: 0306812231 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Loss of the S.S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons, By One of the Survivors by Lawrence Beesley ISBN: 0618055312 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 14 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Story of the Titanic as Told by Its Survivors by Jack Winocour ISBN: 0486206106 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1960 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Last True Story of Titanic by James G. Clary ISBN: 1583450122 Publisher: Domhan Books Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: 882 1/2 Amazing Answers to Your Questions About the Titanic by Hugh Brewster, Laurie Coulter, Ken Marschall ISBN: 0439042968 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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