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Summary: Reads Like an Arcade Game!
Review: This was my first (and last) Joe Buff read. Picture yourself playing a submarine "shoot 'em up" arcade game. Now put that game into print and this is the final product. Mildly entertaining.....if you played this on an Xbox or PC. Virtually no submarine warfare tactics and lets not forget that we all KNOW the US Navy makes it a habit of dispatching sub captains to go ashore in Seal raids. What a farce. Skip the read and find yourself a good game if this is your style. Don't buy the book if you think you are getting a good novel on sub warfare and naval tactics! The story line was thin as well. Purely Duke Nukem!
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Summary: Another great story!
Review: This writer is without doubt one of my favorite writers! I enjoy all of his great stories and I know you will too! This is one book you won't want to miss!
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Summary: Another great story!
Review: This writer is without doubt one of my favorite writers! I enjoy all of his great stories and I know you will too! This is one book you won't want to miss!
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Summary: One redeeming quality
Review: Thunder in the deep boasts one saving grace. It is so fast-paced, so easy to read, that you don't realize just how bad it is until you've finished reading it. In fact, you might have a good time reading most of it.
Once you turn the last page however, you are likely to feel the way you would coming out of Rambo 15. Why did I just read that again?
In short, seen from a cool mind, the book has nothing (past that quick fighting pace) going for it. Characters and settings are inexistant as an integral part of the story. The plot is so bloated with holes and miraculous apparitions saving the day that you'd think Reggie White just went down the buffet line.
If you really have nothing else to read, this won't take long and you may not throw up. Otherwise, pass...
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Summary: "Going Deep"
Review: Thunder In the Deep by Joe Buff is a fasinating fast pased undersea military techno thriller.The is the second installment of the WWIII battle started by the new axis powers of South Africa and Germany. In this installment France has fallen,the British are starving and the world's hopes are pinned on U.S.military. The charecters are vividly portrayed and the plot brilliantly carried out.The action level is high and the weapons high tech and very interesting.This novel makes one realize war is no joke. It also makes me glad this one is only within the pages of this novel.Kudos once again to Joe Buff who keeps me wating for each new book.
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Summary: Thunder in the Deep a Winner
Review: Thunder in the Deep is that rare, but not unwelcome, entity in writing and cinema, a sequel that lives up to the promise of its predecessor. In Thunder, Buff has better integrated the technical jargon into the text than in his previous book (Deep Sound Channel) while maintaining a high level of tension. Each time Challenger and her crew make a move, they find themselves in circumstances from which there seems only one outcome--disaster or death--and I continually marveled at the dexterity and ingenuity of the author's mind in finding credible solutions to each crisis. The characters are full-bodied and engaging--you care about what happens to them--and the writing is clear and precise, no wasted verbiage here. The depictions of navy life and protocols are accurately rendered, and Buff's knowledge of a wide range of military, technical, and scientific subjects is incredible and clearly conveyed. This is a wonderful action-adventure novel that will keep you turning the pages far into the night.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: Thunder in the Deep is very well written and very well researched. Since the September 11 Attack, which has changed the world forever, the story is frighteningly plausible. I really enjoyed reading Thunder in the Deep, and will definitely read Joe Buff's next book too!
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Summary: Very Entertaining, Fast-Paced Read
Review: Thunder in the Deep was the first Joe Buff book that I have read and it was good enough for me to make his first book, Deep Sound Channel, my next read. I picked up the book because he has been compared to Tom Clancy. Since I have read and enjoyed Clancy's novels, I thought that I'd give Buff a try. While I am glad that I did, I found that the comparisons to Clancy were unwarrented. This is NOT a bad thing. Clancy's books are much deeper and have a much wider scope, often containing political or social commentary that he ties in well with the rest of the story. You won't find any of that in Thunder in the Deep. The result is a book that maintains its pace throughout and keeps the action coming. This is not to say that the author is any less a writer than Clancy, just that the book is a different type of read. I'd recommend this book to anyone who likes Clancy, military or combat novels, and especially people who enjoy techno-warfare.
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Summary: Incredible - truly unbelievable
Review: What a disappointment. Great theme and an accomplished writer combine to produce this fantasy of multi-nuclear explosions in the deep, where the odd few thousand casualties at each detonation is commonplace, except that our hero somehow manages to avoid annihilation on eleven different occasions. A series of unexplained,unbelievable,neo-political military scenarios spoil the book for me.
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Summary: Grim,puerile fantasy
Review: What a pity that so talented a writer reaches so deep into his imagination and comes up with only crumbs of credible narrative. Technologically and militarily,it's typical,excellent Joe Buff,but the scenario is in every sense unbelievable and, thus, the reader tends to become increasingly cynical as the story develops.6 million casualties in a month in this war, with huge physical damage to all combatant countries and our heroes are reacting and responding to it all as if it were just another PacFleet exercise. Give us a break,Joe.
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