Titanic: Voices From the Disaster (Scholastic Focus)
Award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson pieces together the harrowing, tragic story of the TITANIC in this Sibert Honor volume. Now in paperback!In this award-winning book, critically acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson weaves together the voices and stories of real TITANIC survivors and witnesses to the disaster -- from the stewardess Violet Jessop to Captain Arthur Rostron of the CARPATHIA, who came to the rescue of the sinking ship. Packed with heartstopping action, devastating drama, fascinating historical details, loads of archival photographs on almost every page, quotes from primary sources, and painstaking back matter, this gripping story, which follows the TITANIC and its passengers from the ship's celebrated launch at Belfast to her cataclysmic icy end, is sure to thrill and move readers.
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Community Reviews
This was my update about 1/4 of the way in: "I'm not going to lie...I'm bored. The prose is mundane, the descriptions are limited, and the people discussed so far are not interesting at all. I don't know if it's because I already know so much about this ship that I just feel like I'm re-reading the same information, but right now there is no "voice" in the "Voices From the Disaster." Sometimes I'm in awe of what gets published."
And it did not change:
Absolute boredom - this story has been told so many times before. And while I appreciate the dedication to history, at least tell it well. The writing is mundane, the use of exclamation points to indicate excitement, frivolity, excess, or drama is appalling. If, as a writer, you cannot select strong verbs to indicate any of these reactions in your reader, then don't write.
I'm not sure how or why this was published - maybe they need to hit a quota of Titanic books each year. James Cameron told a better, more accurate story in Hollywood. I learned nothing new and the "Voices" from this so called novel had no voice.
A disappointment from page one.
It had nice pictures.
And side note: I hate writing reviews like this because I understand the challenge of writing a novel, and it's nothing personal to the author...I'm sure you are lovely person, but I just could not support the writing of this book.
And it did not change:
Absolute boredom - this story has been told so many times before. And while I appreciate the dedication to history, at least tell it well. The writing is mundane, the use of exclamation points to indicate excitement, frivolity, excess, or drama is appalling. If, as a writer, you cannot select strong verbs to indicate any of these reactions in your reader, then don't write.
I'm not sure how or why this was published - maybe they need to hit a quota of Titanic books each year. James Cameron told a better, more accurate story in Hollywood. I learned nothing new and the "Voices" from this so called novel had no voice.
A disappointment from page one.
It had nice pictures.
And side note: I hate writing reviews like this because I understand the challenge of writing a novel, and it's nothing personal to the author...I'm sure you are lovely person, but I just could not support the writing of this book.
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