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Total Titanic

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I have been a Titanic Historian for over 32 years and found that this book is not even up to par. Most of the book deals with "Titanic myths" that the author believes to be fact. He did not do any research apparently or he would have found out from a variety of sources that he was dealing with just myths. There are a veriety of better books out now dealing with Titanic, and her story. This one is just cashing in on the movie fame, without any substantial content. Your money would be better spent on a Walter Lord book.

This is one of the worst books I've seen on the Titanic. Appears as though the author knew very little about his subject, picked up many bits and pieces from browsing the Internet and had no idea what information was right or wrong (some of the information can be directly tracked back to various web-sites). Most of the 'text' is bullet points of information, not a document to be read.

It was 5 bucks that could have gone to a better place, Half baked theories - myths believed to be fact and horrible obvious inaccuracies that are a definite embarresment to this author. If he was expecting praise his expectations were to high. Don't waste your time, it contains some websites and is mainly for teeny boppers who are obsessed with a movie and don't really care whats fact or fiction as long as they know Leonardo DiCaprios' name is in it somewhere

I don't share everyone else's bad reviews as I thought the book was interesting. I have read many, many books about the Titanic, including Charles Pellegrino's books about the exploration of the wreckage on the Ballard expeditions. Although I do not pretend to be a Titanic historian, and several are a lot more qualified than I am to say whether Shapiro's facts are correct or not, I still found it an interesting read.

I think the book Total Titanic was a very well written book. This book was the best Titaic book I have read to this Day. I reccomend this book for readers of any age.

this bok tells everything you need to know about the titanic ittells you everybody who was on the titanic,who died and survived and every single titanic website on the net!!

i was looking for one subject and had to go all over the place to find it it would be nice to go to one place to get this info and if you come across it please send it to me. its the Titanic passanger list. im looking for one person really Rose Abbot. thank you...

As a Titanic historian for 16 years, I understand your disappointment. For those of you who did not enjoy reading "Total Titanic," I would suggest purchasing a copy of the book I wrote, "Titanic Trivia," published by Premium Press. After reading through these comments, I believe you would be much more interested in my literary effort. "Titanic Trivia" includes 424 facts about the construction of Titanic, the actual sinking, rescue, passengers and crew, survivors, and very few entertainment facts (several from the James Cameron movie but many are about movies, theater productions, films, and the like before Leo captured everyone's Titanic imagination). Every fact in "Titanic Trivia" is verified by at least two noteworthy sources (Lord, Titanic Historic Society, Haas and Eates) if not more. My suggestion is to check it out. The book also includes, on the front, a never before published photograph of Titanic. If you end up reading "Titanic Trivia", e-mail myself and let me know how you liked it.