Raise the Titanic

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Summary: Although I love Cussler's work I have to give it 2 stars
Review: I've read a lot of negative reviews regarding this novel. Granted its not Cusslers best work, but there are sections I like. The triumphant Titanic entering New York harbor is breathtaking in my opinion. Still, if you want to read Clive at his best try TREASURE or DRAGON. Great books.

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Summary: A good adventure read.
Review: I enjoyed this story even if it ws a little unrealistic. Part political thriller, part underwater expididtion, and part mystery, I found it to be very excitting throughout the book. Very creative writing and new suprises around every corner. I found it very interesting that the book was written several years before a salvage mission was dispatched and I enjoed getting into Cussler's mind and understanding his own fantasys

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Summary: Ehh...
Review: It wasn't all that great, but it could have been much worse. Mr. Cussler obviously did no research. On some things, even common sense would tell better! Example: Do you REALLY think that a ship of that size would be in almost perfect condition after so long? At that depth? Six tons per square inch of pressure? Another example: A sixty or fifty something year old (at the time of the writing) wreck being raised, and withstanding a hurricane?? Yet another example: Do you really think that that same wreck would remain intact on it's way up, especially at the speeds and the angles he described? Being a Titanic buff, this book was basically very offending. It insulted my intelligence when it described the wreck and put my common sense to shame. I'm impressed that Titanic buffs everywhere aren't insulted of the almost total lack of accuracy (he did get the date of sinking right, though! *grin*). It was great for a fiction. However, if the Titanic just sparked your interest and you're just now starting to read stories and do research, this should be one of the later things you read, so you don't get any kooky ideas. NOTE - If you're looking for a fiction, then by all means read it. If you're reading it because it's supposedly about the Titanic, then put down the book NOW.

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Summary: Although unrealistic, an interesting and exciting read.
Review: Anyone who has any remote interest in the truth about Titanic would know that this story relies upon false information. But of course, being that this is a FICTION novel, the author can do what he wishes and write about the Titnic in whatever manner he pleases. This was a fascinating and fun story to read. I often found myself daydreaming that Titanic had gone down in one peice and that this could really happen. I would recommend reading this to anyone who is not a stickler for truth in a fiction novel.

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Summary: Deserves a "minus stars" category
Review: You've got to be kidding. Great writing? Not even close. My friends and I read this clunker aloud and laughed until we just about wet ourselves.I mean, rilly, "he shot his spine in two at the base." (??) I think the title should have been "Raise the Gorge!"

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Summary: It was better that the movie!!!!!
Review: It was an excellent book it told more things than the movie did.It put a visual picture in your head he described the down to detail I recomend this book to all fans of the Titanic.

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Summary: Terrible
Review: Is this book worthy of Titanic's name? NO! I'm insulted that a legend like Titanic could be used for such a stupid book. Then again, the book isn't even ABOUT Titanic... and no wonder. Cussler doesn't know diddly squat about the matter. Back before Ballard discovered the ship at the bottom of the North Atlantic, it was a debate over wether or not Titanic split, but if the author had done ACTUAL RESEARCH he'd find most of that witnesses that were watching the ship sink that night, like Eva Hart, and Jack Thayer, all agreed that Titanic split (it was only people who were too busy trying to keep alive and thus weren't watching the ship, like Colonel Archibald Gracie and Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller who claimed the ship was intact when it went down). Yet the author describes the ship as in ONE PIECE when the salvage crew find it. But that wasn't the worst of the book. The story, which was entirely unoriginal, completely copied off 007 what with secret US and secret USSR agents fighting with high tech gadgets and impressing beautiful girls, was hardly held together with POOR DIALOGUE. And the insanity thing, suffered both by the Brewster and Seagram charictors, were written immaturely. And our hero? Nice hero! Seagram was right about Dirk Pitt- he was just a stupid, cowardly murderer who has special power because of his li'l daddy. And then there's the part where the authour describes one scene as "If it were a movie, it would be perfect typecasting." Okaaaaay. I don't think he knows this, but typecasting is not a good thing. You know a book's bad when the authour criticizes it. And finally there's the matter of Capitalism vs. Communism. In this book the Communists were criticized very harshly. I love my country and deeply love freedom, my rights, my priveleges and everything I call Democratic, but let's give the Communists a break, shall we? While the people in the USSR were treated poorly, they were very reluctant to change their ways when Gorbachev tried to introduse Perestroika in 1985. And let's not forget who got into space before we did, hm? They did. Who beat us to the moon in 1966, hm? They did. Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin were smart men (Lenin didn't have very good morals in that he ordered the death of the entire Romanov family, but he was still smart), and Cussler had no right to insult them. Don't get me wrong. I love democracy and freedom.

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Summary: Could have been much better
Review: I wasn't nearly as wowed by this book as others were. The book really didn't pick up until the last seventy pages or so.

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Summary: Possibly the best TITANIC fiction book ever
Review: I first read this book 20 years ago, & it started me on a TITANIC obsession that is now, for me, starting its' 3rd decade. Admittedly, some of the book seems a little more trite to me today then it did as a teenager, but I still rate it as one of the best (too bad the movie was such a stinker), and I still have that dog-eared copy from the '70's. Well worth the money, And a great action-intrigue type thriller if you're just looking for a good read.

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Summary: The first and probebly the most memorable book I ve read
Review: twenty years ago i picked this book up for a school reading assignment. Inever intended on reading it.It just looked impressive to carry around.Then probably because i was bored sitting in school with nothing to do but learn ,i read the first page,then the second ,then the first chapter ,at witch point I had to quit (somthing about the class being over and reporting to detention ) Ever since then there hasent been a day go by that i havent had abook in my hands.and its still one of the best books ive read,and ive read alot. THANK YOU MR. CUSSLER YOU ARE THE BEST!