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Summary: This is the best book I've read in forever!
Review: After reading all of Crichton's and Preston and Child's books, I was so thrilled to find this novel! All I can say is I cant WAIT for Rollins to write some more!!!!
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Summary: A thrilling adventure into the depths of the earth.
Review: Subterranean is a good book for being Rollins's first novel. It is the story of a handfull of experts from around the world chosen for cave explorations beneath Antarctica. The team includes Ashley Carterf, an acheologist, Linda Frustenburg, a biologist, Khalid Najmon, an Egyptian geologist, and Benjamin Brust, who specializes in cave exploration. Their mission is to explore ancient cliff-dwelling homes. Or is there more to it than that? The group of specialists began their journey into the earth, accompanied by military experts, but why? As they make their way down, they discover an impossible horror, causing them to fail their mission. What they weren't told was that there was a previous team of explorers who failed to return. They experience many more mysteries, but one in particular hasss the potential to change the world and human life as we know it.
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Summary: A great novel from deep under the earth.
Review: I liked this book. It was a twisted mystery deep under Antartica. Just when you think things can't get any worse for the exploration team something unexpected happens. It has a very different ending that makes you wonder what is really down below you right now.
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Summary: A Book That'll Keep You Guessing 'Til the Very End
Review: Subterranean by James Rollins is full of suspense, action, and even a little romance. It's about a team of scientists that are selected to explore a group of top-secret caves buried deep below the ice of Antartica. But the team's primary mission of scientific study becomes changed to search-and-rescue when they discover that they're not the first team to explore the underground magesty. The team encounters everything, from poisonous plants and man-eating monsters, to breathtaking landscapes and diamond field wonders. This book is excellent for men and women, exciting the curiousity and suspense-loving tendency inside all of us. James Rollins' writing and awareness of detail is flawless. I believe Subterranean is just the tip of the iceberg, with many more great novels by Rollins to come. Bottom line: If you enjoy a well-rounded suspenseful mystery full of twists and turns, Subterranean is for you!
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Summary: UNDER - WHELMING
Review: Fast paced, furious and oh so wrong... hack fiction at it's best. The best thing I can say about this book is that it indeed is a page turner... with every page I turned I was held in breathless anticipation to see exactly how much the author could rip off from Jurrasic Park (why do monsters underneath the Earth come across like Raptors?), or step on his own toes... there are so many points where established history in the previous chapters is rewritten simply to keep the plot moving... it kind of reads like a Doc Savage novel, it's very convenient when it needs to be. But, don't be put off... it's a boys adventure novel plain and simple. Ther hero and herione quickly fall in "love" and desire each others bodies faster than you can say "spread 'em". Funny stuff, will keep you reading... seems to have been written with the intent to sell to Hollywood or a TNT mini-series.
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Summary: Kudos to a first rate book from a first time novelist!
Review: I've read many books through the years, from various authors - marriage does that to some of us. This book was so immersing, so well written that it only took me about 16 hours to read! Normally I'd milk a good book to make it last, but not this one. There were two days that I read the story until 3 AM. I honestly enjoyed every minute of it. It had a little of everything - Action, suspense and a little romance. James Rollins is trully a gifted storyteller, conveying one's imagination to the very bottom of the world, and beneath it. This is the type of book that Oprah Winfrey should be recommending. It is simply amazing that no one, not even someone paid like some other books, has endorsed this book. If Spielberg were to scoop up the rights to it, this story would make one awesome movie. Buy it, read it, and experience the darkness - if you dare... Ave Atque Vale!
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Summary: Good idea, LOTS of weak follow up.
Review: I'm surprised at the reviews here. The worst comment I saw was, "Bad use of Astralian accent." Nobody mentioned that the accent comes and goes at random. How about the characters' clear knowledge of day and night while 2 miles below ground? Anybody wonder how the natives came up with a 26-hour "day"? Apparently the author also decided that Australian aborigines somehow decended from marsupials!? You could also get a little annoyed with how incompetent Navy SEALS (and everyone else) are at holding onto their weapons. In one scene the heroine snatches a gun from the hero and snaps off a couple quick, accurate shots. A few chapters later she fires a pistol and the recoil jerks it out of her hand! Now, flaws aside, it was an entertaining book. I wish the editor had done more to pick out the poor logic to some of the script. If you are reading this review, keep in mind that many of the other reviewers start with, "I'm only 13 but..."
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Summary: Jurassic Park goes underground.
Review: There are dozens of better books out there. The plot becomes predictable.... monsters jumping from behind rocks. The characters are shallow.
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Summary: A GREAT BOOK
Review: This book rates third on my scale along with Michael Crichton and Isaac Asimov. It was a great book that had lots of archaeological and geological depth that sucks you right in there with the team of scientist and the mimi-swee people.
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Summary: Fast, tight read, a quick dive to the earth's depths
Review: The plot is fast, tight, and doesn't waste time bringing you down into the earth's bowels. Its subject matter - caves and the 'creatures' that 'dwell within' - is fairly new, and quite absorbing. The structure of the story is reminiscent of Jurassic Park / Micheal Crichton.However, as an amateur spelunker, I found the treatment on the scientific basis of the story very light. Mr. Rollins could have elaborated more on the development of caves, the different rock formations, etc. to add "meat" to his novel. I was hoping to find more descriptive passages about the underworld, its origins, and so on. Some of the characters could use further development (Ben/Ashley) but otherwise are quite satisfactory in keeping up with the story's tight pace. A salutory first effort!! I'd like to see more of Mr. Rollin's future works, most especially if they're about caves.
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