Review: I wanted to like it
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2013
I'm fascinated with all things Titanic.  I really wanted to like this book, but I couldn't.For the one thing, I think the book needed a good editor.  Even better, spell check.  There were obvious typos that running spell check would have caught.  There were parts of the book inserted into other parts that made no sense. For example, when the main character was on the bridge, talking to the captain, there's suddenly a dialogue of several paragraphs long with a female character, when the two men were the only ones in the map room.  For another, the characters were hard to tell apart.  They're introduced by name, dropped in with little to no description, and none of them stood out for me. I can't even remember the names and I just finished reading less than an hour ago.I scrapbook. I take my family photos and put them on a page with elements and journaling that tell the story of what happened on that particular occasion.  I don't always scrapbook all the photos from a given day at the same time. I might return to it months later.  The first time I had my finished product printed, I discovered that I often told the same story page after page, because I didn't create them at the same time.  I've learned, before printing, to check for duplication, flow and continuity. This book didn't have that.  We were told the same things over and over, often a few paragraphs apart.  We were told thing in dialogue rather than shown them in description.I didn't "feel" like I was there. I didn't care for the characters. I didn't feel anything other than boredom while reading this book