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This is not a random-feeling survey of cold facts. With this kindle single, the author skillfully relays history as if she actually had been there during those times, as if she personally knew all those involved. Kaye has the natural ability to tell you about events and, more importantly, about the people affected by those events. It's history told in an intimate way and with a very personal voice.
By looking deeper at certain passengers on board, at their lives during the moments just before the disaster and even years after it, the author adds a personal feeling to this tragedy. Yes, it is historically accurate, but by layering facts with immediacy and emotion, this story goes beyond being a date and an event and becomes something real for us even today, not just something that happened long ago.
Closing in on the 100th anniversary of Titanic's sinking, we all know about the mistakes made and the resulting great loss of life, all the cold hard facts, but this narrative details real people and real moments of courage and regret, putting the reader right there at that moment and time, making you feel very much a part of that history. At around 730 locations, this is nice, substantial read for a single, a sad but interesting read that is well-written by someone who you can tell loves words and history and the lives affected by that history.
This book was an informative read on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Ms. Kaye places the reader in the life boat for an incredible experience. However, there was a huge flaw in the book which is why I could only give it three stars: the figures of the survivors after the sinking of the Titanic were abysmally inaccurate. Ms. Kaye's statistics infer that almost 80% of the crew survived which gives the reader a gross misconception that the crew saved themselves over the passengers. For those who choose to read this well-written account of Life Boat No. 8, please keep in mind these are the correct statistics: Total Passengers = 1316; Total Passengers Survived = 498 (37%); Total Crew = 913; Total Crew Survived = 215 (23%).
This was a wonderful book about love, courage, loss and resiliency. It brings you deeper into the lives of a few men and, more than a few, extraordinary woman who found the courage and strength to do what needed to be done at a moment in time when most would be paralyzed with fear.
I enjoyed becoming a part of the story and learning about relationships, friendships and love stories that I hadn't known about before now. When you learn of a story that was real, with people who really existed and are drawn into their lives, it brings a whole new level of understanding to stories of the sinking of the TITANIC. These aren't characters in a movie, they are your mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, cousins and loved ones and they are you! This isn't a story that happened 100 Yrs ago....for the people in this story it is happening now.
I guess I enjoyed it so much because this is a new story, a real one and knowing that makes you feel the difference when reading about them. It only took about an hour or maybe less to read which is great if you don't have time to read "war and peace". It may have been shorter than most novels but it packed a punch with every word. Nothing was wasted, no long winded stories but you definitely don't feel cheated either. This is a full, rich story and it will teach you something you didn't know about this tragedy. It will also introduce you to real people that you won't forget easily.
I'd recommend this book for everyone and any age. It's really a wonderful, sad but true story.
As the one-hundredth anniversary of the Titanic disaster approaches, I find myself drawn anew to stories of the ship and it's passengers. I've watched movies, documentaries, and read books detailing the voyage. After the explosion of popularity triggered by the movie in the late '90s, I figured all the stories that would be told had been told already. Rarely do I stuble upon anything Titanic-related that doesn't feel like a rehash.
I've never felt so swept away by a Titanic narrative as I was by Kaye's account of the tragedy through the eyes of passengers. What makes LIFEBOAT NO. 8 even more haunting is the fact that these stories are true, albeit dramatized, accounts of events that happened aboard the ship. Kaye takes us into the life of the family of the only child to die in the upper classes, into the lives of famous and not-so-famous passengers, and into the mindset of those who stayed on deck while the mortally wounded vessel eased itself into the icy Atlantic water which would become it's grave--and theirs.
Just as important as the story of the sinking itself is the follow-up. Here, Keys shows how those passengers in Lifeboat No. 8 never really left Titanic at all, how that one fateful night sent them from the safety and comfort of lives lived in absolute certainty to the darkness and frigid cold of unpredictability that would cause them to never really be sure about anything ever again.
Powerful, gripping, and truly a breath of fresh air--Kaye uses her journalistic chops to immerse her readers in the world of 1912, merely a hundred years ago, but a world as foreign and fascinating as an alien planet to so many of us today.
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