Not a bad effort for a walrus. Keep up the good work Ganders!

Having spent many years working in the porn business, I can find no better a book that displays both nonb-stop sex scenes and a disturbing plot. Let me write a passage from the book. "She entered the room ,the wind from the window making her fly. She approached the bed, where her Lesbian lover lay naked..." I can't go on as it would be illegal, but it is still a good read for a sick man. Of course, its not all lesbian sex, and positioning, but that does take up 98% of it. A good pornographic read.

after reading this book, i felt as if i was about to be violently sick all over myself. My teacher has a twisted mind.... This is a must read.....

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(Soory for my poor writing, But it was good book for pediatrician and prthopedic surgeon)

Sorel-Cameron's classic, but underapreciated masterpiece. The story of a disaffected youth growing up in a Britain of the not too distant future . "A Generation of the Dark Heart" is a powerful and epic novel about power, corruption, lost innocence and love, as the main character finds himself in power after taking over Britain in a militarty coup, and rapidly progressing to the position of the most powerful man in the country. Ok it sounds far fetched but it works. Sorel-Cameron's account of the break down of law and order, and the establishing of a militaristic/totalitarian state is so convincing. Its a frightening story and essential reading. It amazes me that this book is out of print, which is a real shame. If you see it anywhere please read it, its one of those books you'll never forget....

If you like the moviestars of the eighties and nineties, this book is a must-have. It has short, simple, but very complete biographies of many popular moviestars. Also, a handy filmography. In the biography you`ll find comments on some of the movies - and tv-shows - your favorite star was in. The pictures inside are black and white, but usually very nice. Everything is in alphabethical order, so it`s very easy to find who you are looking for. If you like movies and moviestars you should order this book RIGHT NOW!

Author is British journalist James Cameron (the man who heard the famous words of a Gandhi staffer, to the effect that it costs a fortune to keep Gandhiji in his simple lifestyle).

This short but meaty book is a loving portrait of a marvelous country. Cameron uses the incident of a horrific car accident he suffered in Bangladesh to tie together his own sense of mortality and India's great endurance.

Pace can be a little rough at times, but that is the only detraction from this beautiful, appreciative look at India and its foibles, humanity, grace, sufferings. His treatment of conversations (with little hints of well-observed Indglish) are a joy to read. Many tender and thoughtful passages about mankind, but it's really a very personal memoir of Cameron's ongoing yet troubled love affair with a nation.

Indispensible part of any India-phile's library, great pre-departure (or take-along) reading for anyone going there.

I thought this screenplay was absolutely great. It was actually better than the movie even. I liked that Faith(portrayed by the superb Juliette Lewis in the film.) was used more in the book. She was my favorite out of everyone. I wish they had used more of the scenes she was in for the movie, it would have made it better.If you have seen the movie you should really read it, it will make you appriciate it more. If you are a fan of the movie or science fiction, I suggest you check this book out. It also includes really cool pictures from the movie!

As I scaned down your list of reviews something came to mind it was agreat movie,but I want to bring to everyones attention alot of the people on the movie were real peolpe;such as Molly Brown,Cal,and even Rose Dewitt-Bucater.Rose however really did die on the Titnaic,(unlessshe took Dawson,which is highly unlikely.But the movie was great and I've seen it 3 times and plan on seeing till it leaves theaters.Leonardo DiCaprio is simply the most gorgeous man alive and Kate Winslet is beautiful,the movie was so touching and I've never expirienced anythining more heart-wrenching.Also what made me completely lose it in the theatres and cry my eyes out was this really truly did happen and to many people on the Titanic died that didn't have to.

Despite the inevitable critical slashing a film this big recieves, TITANIC is a wonderful film. A magnificent piece of entertainment. The book JAMES CAMERON'S TITANIC is a glorious testament to the soaring movie. The layout of the book is generally from pre-production then running through the whole shoot and post-production, with a focus on chronological presentation of the movie's images. Which, incidently,contain some absolutely stunning stills which are as exciting to look at as the actual film. The behind-the-scenes story telling is purposeful and rich with fascinating insight, laced with several hundred gloriously high quality pictures. There is elements which may annoy the cynics, like James Cameron's pre-chapter voicings of his moral and artistic aims for the film. But that doesn't matter, his words aren't nearly as pretentious as you may expect. JAMES CAMERON'S TITANIC is a delightfully entertaining and satisfyingly authentic supplement to this mega-film. Buy it, keep it in good condition, and rather than watch TITANIC on VHS ten tousand times, pull this book down now and then to remind yourself just what a great film it is.

I would just like to thank James Cameron and the entire cast for making an extrodanary movie. It is the best movie Ive ever seen. James Cameron has given us two characters to look at a fictional point of view and at the same time set an emotional rollercoaster for every person that lost their lives that night. Leonardo DiCaprio performance is stunning and shows his professional acting ability. Ive always enjoyed his movies and this is another to add to his collection of brilliant performances. Kate Winslet, Billy Zane and the rest of the cast's performance is nothing short of perfection. It is captured in the book very well. The book is like seeing the movie a second time in a different way. Thank you James Cameron for giving us this story.

I was nervous reading this book because The Abyss is one of my all time favorite movies. My fears were quickly quieted. Orson scott Card is a masterful story teller and creates a depth to his characters that make them come alive. I look forward to picking up some of his other works. This book was the movie and more. Each enriches the other. The book adds the detail a movie cannot contain. I know the movie by heart and was not bored by this book. That says a lot.

I also found the afterwords by both Cameron and Card fascinating. It is good to see two masters of their own media working together with a respect for each other's work. Both men should be applauded for thier contributions to the world of Science Fiction.

I was riveted to this book and got frustrated when I put it down then forgot where I put it. I highly recommend the book and the movie.

And that's a pretty strange recommendation to make for a movie novelization, it's supposed to be the other way around. Following writer/director James Cameron's recommendation to write a real novel based on his story rather than just write it in narrative form (which so many writer-for-hire types do) Orson Scott Card crafted a well thought out expansion of the film's story. In addition to having the pre-special edition cut sequences (which go a long way in explaining the abyss's residents motivations and such) Card also contributes some welcome background material for the main characters. In an interesting note about the novel's origins (it was written during filming) Card shares that Cameron actually had the principle actors read their individual character's background material from Card's early drafts to better understand the inner workings he wanted communicated in their performances. Highly recommended.

I saw the movie first and really, really liked it.

I then read the book because I've liked some of the author's other works. It complements the movie. Having watched the movie first didn't detract from the book at all.

I gave the book to my Dad. I think he would give it a similar review. It made him cry. (OK, it made me cry too.)

My Dad didn't see the movie until after reading the book. He really liked the movie too. How often can you say that about a book and its movie? I say you haven't fully experienced this story until you've both read the book and seen the movie.

It's a great story. James Cameron told the story using film and special effects. Orson Scott Card told the story using prose.

What a shame this book is out of print. It's worth the effort to track down a copy.

'Titanic : James Cameron's Illustrated Screenplay' is an excellent book! A must-have for any movie buff, Titanic fan, etc. The information and reference material in this book is wondorous! You get the *entire* script, even the deleted scenes, with many little notes, additions, rewrittem scenes, explainations, an extensive and exclusive interview with James Cameron, and over three hundred pictures, most of which are very original and not often printed! The appearance of this book makes it very desirable and collectible! The cover is beautiful and made from quality paper. The text, fonts, colors, and pictures inside this book set the mood and make this book very unique and precious. Buy this book, it's a must-have!!!!

This book is the best. It has so much information. Like why some scenes were changed and why some scenes were cut altogether. I also loved the way james Cameron let his Actor's Ad lib when they felt it. It has over 300 pictures and alot of them have never been scene before. This books shows why Titanic Is the Greatest Movie.

This is the ultimate book for any fan of James Cameron, movie junkies, or the movie "Titanic" to own. As a fan of all three, I absolutely cherish this book. It contains vivid photographs, the entire screenplay--including highlights of scenes cut from the script, scenes filmed but cut from the final production, and scenes and lines added to the movie that weren't even in the script.

For instance, the script's original ending is entirely different than the ending in the movie, but if you want to know, you have to buy the book. Originally, Fabrizio's death scene was different as well, and there was a scene cut from the movie of him saying goodbye to his girlfriend Helga. The book includes pictures of most of these scenes.

The book also contains commentary about certain aspects of the over-all production of the film. It's a very fascinating book that any fan of the movie will adore. It deserves 5+ stars, in my opinion.

This is one of the most chilling true stories I have ever read. While at least half of this "new" material has been reported elsewhere (chiefly in the British Inquiry, May 2 - July 1, 1912), Pellegrino's synthesis feels so fresh and is so vivid that one is tempted to believe he must actually have been there, not just on the expeditions to Titanic as archaeological ruin, but actually there on the slanting decks in a past life. He illustrates the ship's evolution (or devolution) from something strong and beautiful to mounds of twisted steel with such loving detail that for the first time, we can understand the strange sights and sounds reported by Colonel Gracie, Jack Thayer, Charles Joughin, and Alfred White - even though the witnesses themselves eventually died without ever knowing what happened to them, or why.

One more strange thing: In "Her Name, Titanic" Pellegrino morphed back and forth in time from the Ballard expeditions, to the night of the sinking, to the expeditions again... and again... and not always effectively. (Unless the intended effect was to make the reader dizzy. But James Cameron did pick up on this, and ran with it, and managed to transcend Pellegrino's flaws.) This time out, in keeping with the realities of an archaeological dig, wherein one begins by peeling away the most recent events buried in the topmost layer, Pellegrino plays an even stranger game with time. But this time he is much more effective. This book is so engrossing that you can get all the way to the last chapter without noticing that he has been telling the story backwards!

By the way, the drawings were amazingly creepy yet beautiful.

James Cameron asks in the Foreward to this book,"...Titanic ranks third on the list of events about which the mosthas been written, behind the life of Christ and the death of JFK...as I gaze over the rows of shelves stuffed full of my own research materials, what is there to say that hasn't been said? Plenty. And this book is proof."

Pellegrino takes the reader through the Titanic expeditions since his previous book, "Her Name, Titanic," including the 1996 RMS Titanic expedition the author participated in as biopaleontologist and marine archaeologist. He also introduces readers to more never before published survivor accounts, including Chief Baker Charles Joughin (whose survival despite more time spent in the water than any other survivor is still a mystery), Michel Navatril ("The Titanic Waif") and stoker Jim Mulolland (who reports on the fate of the ship's cat).

The reader is also treated to detailed pencil sketches of the wreck as he saw it, an archaeological map of the Stern debris field, the diagrams of the new consortial life form dubbed "Rusticalus Titanics" by Pellegrino and Cullimore on the '96 expedition, and for the first time anywhere, annotated drawings of the actual deck plans of the Titanic drawn in India ink (one of the many Titanic myths debunked by Pellegrino in this book is that the plans went down with Andrews - at the advice of their lawyers the White Star Line led authorities to believe that in order to shut down the design defect argument).

Among the forensic reconstructions in the book are a complete reconstruction on the sequence of events on the the Titanic and the Californian from eyewitness accounts, showing at each stage how the Californian was viewing the lights and distress rockets of the Titanic, and likewise the lifeboats on the Titanic were viewing the lights of the Californian. Pellegrino notes that even Captain Stanley Lord of The Californian finally admitted during his libel law suit against the account of his ship in "A Night To Remember," that it was the lights of the Titanic his crew saw that night of April 12th (its amazing that some authors *still* refer to the "mystery ship"). But Pellegrino further damns Captain Lord by showing that under the atmospheric conditions and due to the immutable laws of curvature of the earth, the lights observed on both sides bracket the distance between the ships as between 5 and 7.5 miles (instead of the 20 miles the captain claimed to american investigators or the 30 miles he later claimed to british investigators or the 40 miles he claimed to reporters after that), which meant the Californian could have reached the titanic, allowing for caution, less than one hour after seeing the first distress rockets, a time when lifeboats were still lowering, well in time to save hundreds at least from freezing to death in the cold waters, possibly all 1500! Pellegrino even adds a new indictment from Third Officer Groves of the Californian, during the brief search the Californian did that morning, Groves saw moving figures on the ice which he believed to be human beings, only to have this dismissed by the Captain as Seals as he ordered the ship to turn around and head for Boston!

Pellegrio also describes the scientific discoveries Pellegrino participated in on the '96 RMS Titanic expedition. He and microbiologist Roy Cullimore discovered that Bob Ballard's "Rusticles" are a new consortial life form, Rusticalus Titanicus, a 3.5 billion year evolutionary throwback that could provide new antibiotics and other medicines. Pellegrino and Cullimore also noted a tremendous increase in deep-ocean "sea snow" between Titanic expeditions which is evidence of "The Zooplankton Crisis," a massive bloom of animal plankton caused by reductions in the North Atlantic fish population, which threatens the phytoplankton population in the top few inches of the ocean, which are responsible for converting more far carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than rain forests. The reader is reminded of the warning Titanic survivor Eva Hart gives to Pellegrino in this book, "...if you scientists, engineers and industrial geniuses don't learn to temper arrogance with wisdom, and to pay very close attention, then I'm afraid there will be an even bigger Titanic in your future - for the whole world, maybe. And next time there may be no lifeboats - for anybody."

I'd rate this book as a great read for any reader interested in history or science, and a must-have for any true Titanic enthusiast, no matter how many books you own!

Let's be frank. I am the publisher of another excellent Titanic book, "1912 Facts About Titanic," by Lee Merideth, and have read about everything that is readily available on the subject. So I know a little something about it. Pellegrino has penned what is in my opinion the most compelling, fresh, and thought-provoking account of the great liner I have ever read. His careful analysis and reasoned speculation opens new doors for serious study; his gleaning of the various inquiry records and other firsthand accounts that have surfaced recently, when utilized with archaeological and scientific discoveries, damn near definitively solves many of the mysteries that have lingered since 1912. Pellegrino's treatment of the role played by the Californian and Captain Lord is the best I have ever seen in print. His use of witness accounts of the ship's lights, the curvature of the earth, and other factors resolves conclusively that Lord's command was within a seven-mile radius when Titanic sank. There is also evidence that a handful of survivors may have been sighted on an ice flow by officers of the Californian--and left there by Lord.

The author also has raised enough significant doubt to revitalize (perhaps "rehabilitate" is not too strong of a description) Captain Smith's reputation. Like the fiasco of a movie "Gettysburg," which depicted Martin Sheen as a General Lee on valium, previous authors and movie directors have portrayed the Titanic's Captain Smith as a confused and benumbed fool once the ship's designer, Andrews, told him Titanic was doomed. In fact, every one of Smith's critical decisions--including sending out half empty lifeboats--were the correct ones. (My hat is off to you Captain, and I apologize for the unkind words I have spread about you. tps)

Other compelling issues include learned speculation that the Grand Staircase broke loose and shot to the surface (the evidence for this is very strong); Officer Murdoch did indeed shoot himself (there were several witnesses who did not know each other who wrote the same thing); and Bruce Ismay and his company worked overtime to slander many survivors who did tow the company line (the Duff Gordons were among this select group). Even more interesting is the fact that the "rusticles" adorning the deteriorating ship are actually ALIVE. Yes, they are bacterial colonies in a life form previously unknown. And they are being utilized for medical research that might, ultimately, save more people than Titanic took to the bottom.

The only section of the book that caused me to roll my eyes and audibly groan was the very end of the main narrative, where Pellegrino makes a silly over-the-top reference to the political baloney we know today as "Global Warming," accented with a metaphor that the earth is the Titanic and we are steaming toward our own ice field. Sorry, Charlie, but hundreds of qualified scientists think the evidence for Global Warming (and a human connection) is tenuous or nonexistent at best. Politicians anxious to weaken the U.S. at the expense of Third World countries, however, in the name of global Socialism, see it as a terrific opportunity to achieve their goals. These are the same yahoos who argued 25 years ago that TODAY we would be all covered with ice, so our lifestyles had to change radically--or else. (How many of your are now skiing in July? Hmmm?)

I borrowed this book, read it, and then bought it. Everyone who enjoys reading about Titanic must own this book. Ignore the silly review that appeared in Kirkus and the hatchet job that was penned in the New York Times. Buy Ghosts of the Titanic, enjoy it, and then share it with another buff.