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Summary: Fast Paced Fun
Review: This story really moves! I raced through this 400+ page thriller in two days. Since this is an action story, not a character study, plot is most important. The plot is both complicated and sound. The book builds suspense by alternating between two, then three set of characters, many chapters, and even many subsection ending with a cliff-hanger. I cannot comment on the accuracy of the science, but then if that is your interest read a science book. This adventure story works best when the characters are climbing through the underground caves and fighting prehistoric monsters. The only slow part involves attempts to anthropologically understand a prehuman race. Yes, the author includes this a part of a puzzle to be solved to save the characters' lives, it just slows the book down a trifle. Peppered with Australian myth, this book has plenty of imagination as well. A good combination of Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Summary: Interesting but flawed.
Review: Rollins has give us a book that is well written and keeps the reader's interest throughout. However, the book is flawed by the political correctness that is apparent from beginning to end. The bad humans bring a blight into the world they find. One of the characters is a stereotypical Arab terrorist. Rollins also makes comments about the Earth's environment that show he is a tree-hugger and has bought into the fiction that humans are creating dangers to that environment. The book would have been much more enjoyable without these PC overtones.
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Summary: Awesome I highly recommend.
Review: If you like a fast paced, seat of your pants ride that stays here on earth this is for you. Not to sci-fi spaced out at all. A interesting twist to our past planet earth. Fun and adventrous Indiana Jones style. I am a new fan of James Rollins!
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Summary: Looking forward to the next book!
Review: FYI to Rollins fans out there. I found his website yesterday, with a prologue to Deep Fathom (his next novel). Check it out! SUBTERRANEAN ROCKS! <no pun intended>
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Summary: WOW
Review: Are you looking for a unique adventure novel. Here it is.. this book grabs the reader and makes you want to find out what happens next. You can not read fast enough. A good novel for those cold nights to cuddle up with. Great Job!!! My thirteen year old son is also hooked!!! He keeps asking "what happens next?". I won't tell!!! Just keep reading.
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Summary: Rollins Gets It!
Review: The more I read James Rollins, the more I like him. He gets the concept of grabbing the reader's attention and not letting go! Subterranean was great entertainment, I couldn't put it down. Give us some more, Mr. Rollins!~
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Summary: The Ultimate Adventure
Review: The book kept me on the edge of my seat. I flipped the pages as long as I possible could. The emotion flowed from the pages into my imagination creating an awesome place covered by snow and ice and surrounded by rock. James Rollins, if you check your customer reviews, this book left me hanging and needs a sequil.
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Summary: To "My name does not matter" reviewer
Review: Grow up! It's only a book. A pretty fun, rollercoaster of a book, too, I might add. Your childish and assinine review demonstrates your own lack of intelligence and negates any value to your review.
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Summary: You are horrid imbeciles devoid of any insight or integrity.
Review: This book can be most accurately equated to an 18 ounce can vacuum sealed full of rat excrement. You should all drink a gallon of bleach right before passing out unto the freeway.
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Summary: If you want Action-Light, Subterranean fills the bill...
Review: I had been meaning to begin 'Subterranean' for quite some time but had always stayed away for fear that it wasn't going to be all it COULD have been. I have to say that I was right. As far as a premise, it was a hum-dinger! A cave discovered at the bottom of the world underneath Mt. Erebus--a BIG cave. But that isn't all, people are disappearing--well armed people are dying left and right, and the military is in charge, yet knows NOTHING. VERY facinating premise indeed...however it seemed rather choppy in its layout. A nice and neat cliff-hanger (sometimes literally) on virtually every other page kept the pace relentless which isn't a BAD thing at all, but it sometimes distracted the storyline for me. It became rather obvious that I was going to have to suspend my belief in order to swallow portions of this book rather quickly...again which ISN'T a bad thing, but some of the living 'surprises' we come upon in the story stretch our imagination a little too thin if you ask me. In fact it seemed as though there were way too many evolutionary surprises found in this book. Also, the creatures known as the Crak'an were very interesting, but after describing the cave tunnels as being so small and tight, and then to write about these creatures as large as bull elephants, well it just didn't compute. With that said, I STILL enjoyed the book. I finished it faster than I usually do, and I have already picked up Rollins' 2nd outing, 'Excavation'. I am fervently hoping that as most authors do, he improves upon his first outing in the literary world. Mr Rollins' definitely has a knack for pacing and can come up with great storylines, as long as he continues to improve and he becomes associated with an editor who can harness that raw talent he has, I can see some very good things in the future coming hot off the presses.
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