Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and their World by Hugh Brewster

My sister has a new favorite word, "meh", and that word is precisely how I feel after having finished this book "Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage" by Hugh Brewster. While discussion of the sinking of the luxury liner Titanic on her maiden voyage is always interesting, this book seems to drag with facts and therefore loses much of the drama of the episode.

I have no doubt that this book is exhaustively researched, and that every fact listed herein is accurate, but I have both read and seen other works that are far more engaging to me as a reader/viewer. The movies "A Night to Remember" and James Cameron's "Titanic" come to mind instantly, but even a made-for-TV
movie that was on just this year was more compelling than this book, and it was complete rubbish.

"Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage" reminds me of how author Hugh Brewster describes a book written by a man lost in the tragedy; Archibald Gracie IV apparently wrote a book about the battle of Chickamauga that was so weighed down in facts, that it bored even those who has been in the Civil War battle and might have been
especially interested in the subject matter. To me, this book has the same feel, leaving me as the reader drowning in facts when what I was really hungering for some human drama.

Submitted by Max