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Summary: I have never read a better book.
Review: I had many friends that were reading Clive Cussler so I had to try and see how good of an author he is. Boy was I happy. His word just grab me and pull me in. I was hooked in a matter of minutes.
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Summary: I am happy I discovered this series!
Review: I have never been a big fan of military thrillers. The only author I read regularly in this genre is Nelson DeMille and I enjoy him a lot, so I decided to give Clive Cussler a try. I am happy to say I was not disappointed! Even though "Pacific Vortex" was not the first published book in the Dirk Pitt adventures series, it was the first Cussler wrote, so logically, this is the novel I picked to start my journey. I found an interesting character that lives at the edge and is passionate about his work. Also in some aspects he is similar to James Bond, women mainly, and the mix is sufficient to keep the reader thoroughly entertained.For six months the US government has been trying to find the Starbuck, a submarine lost in the Hawaiian (Pacific) vortex. This is an area similar to the well-known Bermuda Triangle. The submarine was lost on its maiden trial and possesses the most advanced equipment, in terms of nuclear capabilities, that the US has developed so far. The last known communication from the nuclear submarine came from captain Dupree, establishing that they were lost without possibilities of recovering themselves and giving the coordinates of their location. While in his holidays in the coast of Hawaii, Dirk finds a communications capsule from the Starbuck addressed to Admiral Hunter in Pearl Harbor. Thus, he is directly involved in the search for the submarine and starts a dangerous journey in which he will face different enemies, conspiracies and uncertainty about who to trust. He also meets a mysterious woman, Summer, who will rock his world and complicate matters further. Cussler has created a very entertaining series, with a character that has an arrogant and pedantic side, but whom also shows his pure emotions and is true to his friends and ideals. This makes the Special Project Director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency a very likable character. This is a book that a reader can breeze through in a few hours making it an enjoyable way to spend a weekend's afternoon. I will surely read the next book in this series hoping for a similar experience.
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Summary: Wonderful Beginning to the Dirk Pitt Series!
Review: I just love the Dirk Pitt Series! I couldn't put it down for a moment! This book instantly drew to the adventures of Dirk Pitt! Definitely one of the best books that I have read!
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Summary: Could have used some better editing...
Review: I like to read series in chronological order, so I went to this Dirk Pitt adventure first. The action was non-stop, even if the mystery was something less than mysterious. The settings were somewhat exciting, in a Discovery Channel sort of way. All in all, it was simply OK. A good quick read, though some discrepancies near the end stopped me from giving it my seal of approval.
I can understand when the previous reviewer talks about missing pieces and that this book, from what I understand, may have been hastily released to cash in on the success of Dirk's other books (which took place after this one chronologically).
In one scene, Dirk comes upon a girl and her skin is creamy white and then, a few pages later, she has long tan legs...In a technical discrepancy, Dirk's depth meter reads 80 feet when he reaches an underwater cavern. Later on, when he and his compadre are leaving (sans diving gear), the depth is only 50 feet. Both these items occurred within the last 20 or 30 pages and left a bad taste in my mouth.
It bothered me that simply reading the book would have prompted any alert reader (I would hope that editors are alert readers) to the errors. I can't see that fixing these items would have stalled their big cash-in!
I've read great things about Mr. Cussler's other books, though, and will be willing to give at least one more try to the Dirk Pitt series as there were some promising things about this book. The action was well written and I hope that longer, more complicated books that followed this one will be able to draw me in more.
I mainly hope that his editor was awake on those later books.
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Summary: Great into to the series....
Review: I love the entire Dirk Pitt series and Pacific Vortex was the 8th one I read. They are all good. I can't wait to read the rest....
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Summary: one of the best suspense novels i have ever read
Review: I must admit I am an old fan of Mr.Cussler/Dirk Pitt and this is one of his best.He crabs you in the first few pages and will not let you go,not that you want to put it down once you have startedVortex like all of thePitt series is a thinking persons novel his plots and sub-plots and sub sub-plots keep you on your toes from the first page to the last andVortex is one of his best.I would with out reservation recommend Pacific Vortex to anyone from 12 to 112 its just great fun to read.
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Summary: For the love of reading
Review: I read this book about 11 years ago. I used to be someone who did everything to get away from reading. So, when my Brother told me about Pacific Vortex, I decided to skim through the first few pages to see what it was like. At about 3am the next morning I read the last page and have been a book junkie ever since. I consider Clive Cussler to be the reason why I started reading. I have never read a Pitt novel I didn't like and KNOW I never will. I just wish there were more to read. Maybe MR.Cussler should get together with James Gardner and write a book where Dirk Pitt and James Bond team up and save the world......(ok, maybe not. But what the heck. Its all fiction anyway)
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Summary: Page Turner Extraordinaire
Review: I really enjoyed this book a lot. This is one of the first Cussler books I have read. Dirk Pitt is the main character in this book as well as in all of Cussler's other books. Pitt is very slack about everything but he always has a trick up his sleeve. Pacific Vortex is a real page-turner. Cussler, in my opinion, is one of the best adventure writers of our time. This is a good book for people who are just starting to read. This book is very good and I would prefer anyone to read this book today. It is just that good. Pick up and read this book today. Trust me, you will not be sorry.
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Summary: How did they do it?
Review: I rearely have as much fun reading a book as I do when it is a Dirk Pitt novel. It sends me back. When I was a kid in the fourth or fifth grade I used to voraciously consume Hardy Boys books. Adventure after crime solving adventure. Fighting the bad guys, getting with the cute girl. They were everything that I could ever dream of. Now I'm older, the hardy Boys aren't quite as exciting as they used to be, after all I'm almost thirty, but Dirk Pitt that is another story. Imagine the excitement and joy of a Hardy Boys book, of not knowing what will happen next or how Frank or Joe will get out of any given situation. Now make the cute girl a beautiful woman, make the scary situation deadly, and usually underwater, presto Dirk Pitt, Hardy Boys for adults. Don't take this in a bad way, I loved the Hardy Boys and I love Dirk Pitt, and this book in particualr is the best place to start. Pacific Vortex is the first of the Dirk Pitt novels and is easily consumed with just a few hours of reading time. The action moves quick, the situations are harrowing from one moment to the next and the mystry is thick. Pick this one up and relive what it was like reading adventure novels as a kid, this is wat all adventure novels shoud be like now that we are adults!
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Summary: Now that I graduated from the Hardy Boys!
Review: I rearely have as much fun reading a book as I do when it is a Dirk Pitt novel. It sends me back. When I was a kid in the fourth or fifth grade I used to voraciously consume Hardy Boys books. Adventure after crime solving adventure. Fighting the bad guys, getting with the cute girl. They were everything that I could ever dream of. Now I'm older, the hardy Boys aren't quite as exciting as they used to be, after all I'm almost thirty, but Dirk Pitt that is another story. Imagine the excitement and joy of a Hardy Boys book, of not knowing what will happen next or how Frank or Joe will get out of any given situation. Now make the cute girl a beautiful woman, make the scary situation deadly, and usually underwater, presto Dirk Pitt, Hardy Boys for adults. Don't take this in a bad way, I loved the Hardy Boys and I love Dirk Pitt, and this book in particualr is the best place to start. Pacific Vortex is the first of the Dirk Pitt novels and is easily consumed with just a few hours of reading time. The action moves quick, the situations are harrowing from one moment to the next and the mystry is thick. Pick this one up and relive what it was like reading adventure novels as a kid, this is wat all adventure novels shoud be like now that we are adults!
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