Titanic

[michellenap]

was Titanic ever converted into a novel?

[Etienne]

I hope not!

[manolia]

:lol: :lol:
There are some books about Titanic but i don't think they are novels. I never had any real interest ;)

[bazarov]

I think that movie was never converted in book, only books to movies. :D

[manolia]

Wasn't "Star Wars" converted to a book? :p

[bazarov]

Yes...

[novelsryou]

I remember when Dirk Pitt brought it to the surface and towed it into NY Harbor in one of the all time great Clive Cussler epics.

[mayneverhave]

there's pretty much a book for everything

i think there was an novel adaptation for men in black

[LadyWentworth]

Why not just read a book about the true story of Titanic rather than a fictional one? There are some good ones out there. I actually prefer Sinking of the Titanic: Eyewitness Accounts. It is pretty interesting.

[FacialFracture]

I don't know about novels, but a Canadian poet named E.J. Pratt wrote a whole book of poems (actually, I think it's sort of one cohesive piece, broken into sub-divided poems for ease of reading?...I've only read excerpts)...anyway, it's called Titanic, I think it was written in the mid-thirties. I'm sure it's not exactly what you're looking for, but who knows? It does seem to cover the incident observationally, rather than as some sort of hindsight-opinion piece.

You can view (all of it? some of it?) here: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/pratt/poem6.htm

Edit: Unless you mean to ask if the *film* Titanic was converted into a novel, in which case, I have no idea...but, since the director of that film is Canadian, and our country has a habit of stuffing us full of "Canadian content" all through school...it's a fair guess that he may be familiar with the poetry book I mentioned.

[mtpspur]

For years Walter Lord's A Night to Remember was THE book on the Titanic. He even did a followup whose title escapes me at the minute and it's buried in a box in my library somewhere. Only fictional one I perused was Max Allan Collins The Titanic Murders weaving the last days of Jacque Futrelle (creator ofThe Thinking Machine mysteries) aboard that fated ship resolving a murder on board just before the last sinking. Haven't actually read it verbatim true confession but Collins is also known for the Road to Perdition books.

[LadyWentworth]

For years Walter Lord's A Night to Remember was THE book on the Titanic. He even did a followup whose title escpaes me at the minute and it's buried in a box in my library somewehere.


Wasn't the second book called The Night Lives On?

[mtpspur]

Wasn't the second book called The Night Lives On?

You are right. Thanks.

[Niamh]

It is quite possible that they did bring out a movie tie in novel.

[Nico87]

A Night to Remember seems good, just ordered a hardcover edition of it. I've heard it's kind of inaccurate in some parts, seeing as the wreck of Titanic had never been studied as no technology to do so existed at the time Walter Lord wrote the book. Among other things, he wrote that Titanic was whole when it sank, not that it had broken in two.