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Summary: What an Adventure!!
Review: Having never read anything by this author I was thrilled with such a great introduction to his work. This was fast paced, action packed and definetly not boring!! This led to my buying his other books, Excavation and Fatalis. I look forward to More,More,More!!!!
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Summary: Not too bad...
Review: For a story that takes place underground, not a bad piece of work. I expected the usual "molemen" but this story is a nice change from the normal. Interesting characters and a plot that keeps you reading.
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Summary: A BIT OVER THE TOP , BUT BETTER THAN EXCAVATION
Review: Ok, I love adventure books, especially the Lincoln child and
Douglas Preston novels. Their books have a real life quality with high tech gadgets, with a bit of mystery thrown in.
Sorry to say the Rollins story was a bit over the top on this one, dinosaurs in caves, a long lost tribe never discovered in all this time and to top it off, our hero has clues from a ghost who helps the hero out.
I mean, The Relic had a monster, but at least the possible explanation as to its existence was pretty well explained. Unfortunately Rollins method of a dash of monster and a pitch of ghost just didn't float my boat, but I had to finish the book because I always do. So sorry J.R. your books are not in the same league as Preston and Childs. But it did keep me somewhat entertained on my train ride home. So 3 stars to you.
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Summary: ...Where we have a simple entertainment under Antartica
Review: An expedition financed by private corporation goes under the glaciers of Antartica to explore caverns. In their journeys they will make interesting encounters, betray each other, fall in love...etc...It is an entertaining read. Nothing complex, don't expect to learn much in this reading. The Characters are extremes (the bad are very bad...and so on), the plot well thought but slow to come. Suspense...not really. A good book to read in a plane if there is'nt much else on the paperback rack. The Jurassic Park and Raptor crowd might appreciate.
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Summary: Good All Around Book
Review: Fascinating Plot. Sort of a parallel evolutionary, action, archaeological shoot-em-up.
Thank Heaven for the Marines. it's just a shame that I was never sent on any of these missions. A good read, tho. A little long but not bad.
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Summary: Another intriguing plot
Review: I know there are other books about hidden civilizations underground but this has a couple of unusual plot twists that keep it original and fresh in concept. Good entertainment.
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Summary: Good start
Review: This book was the first one I read of James Rollins and I'll admit it did peak my interest enough to purchase his subsequent books. The characters at times seem a rather mixed kettle of characters that tend to distract one from what I thought should have been the primary story line, finding and exploring a lost civilization. It was not a great adventure like I would say "The Seventh Scroll" by Wilbur Smith but it was fun to read. I would recommmend some of his later works over this one, such as "Deep Fathom" or "Excavation".
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Summary: Wow
Review: This book kept me on the edge of my seat. I love James Rollins style and his subject matter. I will definately be reading all of his books.
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Summary: Good book, but full of errors.
Review: If you have any kind of scientific training at all then you'll be pulling your hair out halfway through the book. If you can seperate yourself from that part, then you'll probably enjoy it. The believability meter gets stretched a little during this one. I think that it would have been a lot better if the author would have done some in depth research before writing, so as to fix some of the problems that cropped up later on. For example, the main character is supposed to be an Archaeologit and suggests that a hominid creature such as Homo Erectus could have constructed certain doorways because they were small(in reality, Homo Erectus was much larger than modern man). And at the end this same archaeologist who was signed on to excavate the cave ruins becomes the chief ethnographer in studying the new tribe species? She is a specialist in digging up dead things and making sense out of them, not dealing with live cultures. Surely since she was the first to make contact she would have stayed on as a consultant, but someone more suited to doing living ehtnographies would have taken charge.
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Summary: Good, but it seemed like I was reading Excavation again
Review: This was a good book, and if I read it prior to reading Ecavation, I would have thought that this book was GREAT (like I thought about Excavation). But by reading Excavation first, I was dissapointed. I thought I was reading the same book again. My advice read one then take a long break to "Cleans your Pallet" then pick up the other book.
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