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Summary: Cussler is back
Review: After being let down by 'Incan Gold' and 'Shockwave' Cussler has come back with a good story. Dirk is his usual "role model" self and the villian is enjoyably evil. The plot is timely and borderlines on believability. It is also good to see that Cussler remembers the Great Lakes and the contributions they have made to increasing the number of shipwrecks. This is the perfect gloomy day book. If "Promise Keepers" didn't inspire your manhood, this surely will.
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Summary: Typical Dirk Pitt Adventure
Review: Flood Tide is your typical Dirk Pitt adventure. If you are looking for something more, look elsewhere, however, if you've enjoyed past Pitt books, you'll like this one. More of the same, with the exception that Flood Tide is slightly more "real". In other words, I finished the book without saying "I can't believe Dirk survived in the heart of a nuclear explosion", or "I can't believe Dirk lived after swimming 50 miles of an underground river." :-) I enjoyed reading it.
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Summary: Another Clive classic to read with band-aids on all fingers
Review: Being a native of the Crescent City, it made Clive's latest that more interesting. It was nice to have Dirk underwater again. (I don't think he submerged during Shock Wave) It seems the latest Dirk was a kinder and gentler sort. Missed Loren, hope she's still in the big picture. Only negative of the book was like every other Pitt adventure.............It ended
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Summary: good read
Review: Clive Cussler and his alter ego Dirk Pitt once again thrill and amaze, with impossible situations resolved by incredible feats. Here we have a fictional US President taking money fron Chinese villains to look the other way, maybe not a fictional Prez after all.A very good read.
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Summary: ho hum
Review: Although I am a big Dirk fan, I felt that this book fell flat. It just never seemed to catch fire. I enjoyed the total lunacy of 'Sahara' so much more.
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Summary: Clive Cussler has once again written an award winning book!
Review: This book was another testimony to the brilliance of Clive Cussler. He is truly one of the most predominant thriller writers of our time. I can't wait for the next one to come out because I read this one in less than 24 hours.
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Summary: Dirk Pit is Back!
Review: After Shock Wave I was afraid our intrepid hero was headed for retirement. Flood Tide is a page turner filled with Action, Action, Action a good helping of maritime history, despicable characters, Washington politics, and romance and no sign of retirement for either Dirk or Al. Even if you figure out where the ship and treasure are you'll keep reading to the very end. So, get out your Atlas and follow the adventures of the NUMA crew and the heroes of sea. As always I hated to have it end.
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Summary: Dirk and Al save America again!
Review: You can't beat Clive Cussler, Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino for a great adventure. Dirk is as usual his larger than life self. He and Al always manage to escape certain death, stomp the evil-doer and protect truth, justice and the American way! Am I complaining? No way, that is what makes his books so entertaining. You know that evil will not triumph and that Dirk and Al will come through being little wrose for the wear. Cussler does all that and can make the technical data interesting too. All, in all, a terrific way to spend a few hours!
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Summary: Surprised by the xenophobic undertones
Review: I'm an Australian of Asian descent, and I've been a huge Clive Cussler (and Tom Clancy) fan since I was about 12 years old. It was Clive Cussler that introduced me to the concept of "sex scenes" within books, and because I had a fascination of the ocean, NUMA as a concept always fascinated me. Up til' now, I'd always assumed that Dirk Pitt as a character was fighting for the freedom of everyone around the world, regardless of their race. This isn't the first time Clive Cussler has used Asian villains in his novels (Deep Six), but it's the first time he's ever expressed any antipathy or animosity towards Asians in general. Both Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler formed an integral part of my childhood reading. Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Raise the Titanic, Deep Six - these were all books I loved reading. But now that I'm aware of their antipathy towards Asians, I feel like I've been unceremoniously excluded from an important club. I want to love Cussler's novels, but I just can't if he's not going to extend the same respect towards me as a reader.
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Summary: Cussler's disturbing xenophobia continues
Review: I agree with reviewer David Lim's comments that Flood Tide continues a disturbing trend in Cussler's later works of xenophobic and derogatory attitudes toward Asians. All the predictable negative stereotypes are here: ruthless human smugglers, sadistic triad gangsters, even a "dragon lady" femme fatale. To Cussler's credit, he's toned the Asia bashing down from his previous book, Dragon. In Flood Tide, the villains are evil individuals who happen to be Chinese and it's clearly implied that most Chinese people are good. In Dragon, every Japanese is portrayed as a nameless, faceless cog in a giant evil machine out to enslave the world. The Asian girl love interest in Flood Tide is, at least, a strong-willed character capable of holding her own. In Dragon she's a geisha girl/sex slave. Still, the xenophobic overtones in Flood Tide leave a bad taste in the reader's mouth and get in the way of what is otherwise a pretty good story. All the elements you expect from a Cussler/Pitt novel are here: an elusive shipwreck, hidden treasure, a 50 year old mystery, and so on. If you can look past the negative Asian sterotypes, Flood Tide is an enjoyable read. If not, go for one of Cussler's earlier novels like Raise the Titanic or Night Probe.
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