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Summary: Good, but not great
Review: This book is good, fast paced and all but not very factual. I know the name 'Killer Whales' makes them sound dangerous to humans, but being a marine biologist I know they are not. If you constantly poke them with a electric prod for thrity years straight they may get a little ticked off with you, but they wouldn't eat you! And twelve USMC marines taking on the French special forces and winning, yeah, maybe that's fesible, but some US marines taking on fifty SAS soldiers and winning is impossible. The SAS are the best troops in the world, they could take on every USMC marine on the planet and win hands down. Next, a single marine taking out an entire French submarine, again, impossible. It just doesn't happen. No offence Matthew Riley but research your next books topics a bit, alright? It ain't hard, all you have to do is look in libraries and on the net. Simple. But, for all its bad points this is a good book, despite the mildly dissapointing ending. It is fast paced, action packed and overall, and most importantly, fun to read. If this book was even 50% factual it would have five stars. There is a thin line between using to much bull%*(& and not enough (for fully factual stories are never too exciting) and Matt crossed it within the first thirty pages in this book. As said in the title of this review, good, but not great. It really depends on your tastes as to whether you will like this book. You like action? buy it. You like facts? consider it.
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Summary: THIS BOOK IS AWESOME!
Review: sure some of it may be a bit hard to beleive, but just ignore that and youve got yourself one of the most action packed, fast paced booked you will ever leave. When i read this book i was not able to put it down, i basicly read it in a single sitting. beleive me when i say you will love this book. ITS AWESOME!
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Summary: Great Story - Just Don't Try Any of this at Home!
Review: This book rocks! Don't try to analyze it too much - It's beyond unbelievable at times. But, if you're looking to get away from it all. This is one of the best books (of its kind) I have read in a long time. I'll definitily look for more of his books in the future.
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Summary: A Diamond in the rough
Review: This book is probally one of the best books I have ever read.It keeps you enthralled for hours on end. The charecters are very well described and are brought to life in a way that only Mathew Reilly can.I really think it deserves the score I gave it.I recomend it to any reader who is capable. Diamond, 13
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Summary: I want my escapism to be less ludicrous than this
Review: I had heard a lot about how good this new thriller was but I have to say I am extremely disappointed. Characters are cardboard, scenarios ridiculous and the writing .... what can you say about a writer who needs maybe 10 sets of italics every single page to add dramatic emphasis. Sure I like a good escapist thriller novel but give me Clive Cussler any day. Don't waste your time with this one.
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Summary: if you switch off some brain cell....
Review: Reading this book you can see that the author is talented but he needs for sure a scientific adviser.In this book are too many technical absurdities;you can't identify yourself in the tale reading about the ridicolous 'maghook' (magnetic hook),about a liquid nitrogen charge that can freez a pool of water in spite of thermal exchange laws,about a 2 gigawatt plutonium reactor on a plane(! ) and about many others plesantries. If you compare this book to 'reference authors' yuo see that Chrichton is imaginative but very careful when he writes about science and he prefers 'human' characters.Instead Clive Cussler has a superman-style hero like Dirk Pitt.In 'Ice Station' a superman hero and such extreme science creatins are frankly too much. Maybe the author is in a hurry to write a script for a major motion picture an not a real good book.Neverthless if you switch off many brain cells the book will be really enjoyable.(my e-mail is tanocci@yahoo.com)
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Summary: Action, action, action... and a little more action.
Review: Seriously, from the first page until the last - despite the story being a little drawn out - the action/adventure is excellent. The technical wizardry is top-shelf, and there is enough gunfire/death/deceit/weaponry/transport to keep the pages turning themselves. And on top of everything, it is simply a good story - which is what the reader intially picks the book up for.
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Summary: BOND ON ICE
Review: From the first page of this novel it screams action and adventure the characters are so detailed you feel as though you know them personally.The action is so incredibly described that you feel you are part of the book.The story is definitely what films are made for and if I ha d the money try stopping me.Set around the polar ice caps and dealing with SAS special forces and Marines this is every persons dream book who ever wanted to be an action man.In short James Bond meets Bruce Willis. Hurry up and write another one.
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Summary: Fast-paced but a few too many plot holes
Review: One of the conventions of military adventure fiction, especially in the high-tech Tom Clancy vein, is that the technical details are accurate enough to make you think that the author has some secret source inside the military. This author has ignored that convention a little too often to make this a truly satisfying read, although the action sequences are very crisply written and the book moves along at a terrific pace - despite the occasionally annoying glitches, I could not put it down. Some of the most bothersome problems are in areas that are crucial to the development of the story. The space ship locked in the ice is in a cave 500 meters beneath sea level, with the entrance at 1000 meters, yet divers in wetsuits have no trouble reaching this place to start the book. In fact, even military divers don't go deeper than about 300 meters, because the nervous system shuts down beyond that. The action takes pace in Antarctica in June (mid-winter, when it should be dark), yet characters have no trouble seeing things at great distances with the naked eye. A secret conspiracy within the US government has placed "sleepers" in elite military units whose task is to kill their comrades if they should discover some piece of high technology, so that they cannot reveal that the US has the technology. If this conspiracy of the Joint Chiefs and the NSA were for real, why would they not simply create an elite unit to handle those missions where alien artifacts are reported? Too contrived. O'Reilly writes with good dash and avoids many of the classic cliches of characterization in this genre, so I hope that as he matures he will iron out the plot and detail problems. It was still a fun read.
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Summary: Ice Station
Review: Not my usual type of book but I found it incredibly hard to put down. Really fast moving action, technology and suspense combined together for a really good read! Loved every page of it!
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