Rating: 
Summary: Better Left Unread
Review: To be perfectly honest, I have no clue WHY I picked up a copy of this book considering I was not a huge fan of the prequel. I guess it was just curiousity in the end, and we all know what that did to the cat...Taking up a little after the point where FRAGMENTS left off, SHIP OF THE DAMN follows the same group of characters in another bizarre, out-of-this world adventure. Once again, all of the characters are something less than one-dimensional and only the villians seem to have any real depth (and that ain't saying a whole lot either). The plot, which tries to pass off as a possible alternative to the Philadelphia Experiment, runs pretty bland with random spurts of action that always seem to finish just as they get interesting. And, yet again, the author's writing style is like the Hardy Boys meets Oliver Stone's NATURAL BORN KILLERS: a mix of junior high school dialgue mixed (unsuccessfully) with gritty violence. In fact, it was so amateurish that I stopped mid-way through the book, leaving to collect dust until I find someone to purchase my slightly used copy.
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