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Summary: Exciting and action packed
Review: I'm surprised by some of the negative comments I've read. This is the first Cussler book I've read and it was great! It was full of action and held my interest. The ending had me cheering for the heroes. I think this book would make an exciting movie. I've decided to read other Cussler books...
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Summary: Just Plain Awful
Review: This is my first Clive Cussler read, and it is my last. A suspenseful prologue aside, this book is awash in shallow main characters, silly plot twists, and inane dialogue. Add a doomsday plot so implausible that it would make Ian Flemming blush. The dialogue between Dirk and friends seems to have been copied from some bad cop show, with tasteless, cliched, campy similes by the dozen. I happened to read this book in the audio form, which also had an awful narrator. Save your time and sense of self-worth, and read something by Clancy, Ludlum, or perhaps as one other reviewer suggested, the excellent novels of Patrick Obrien.
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Summary: Cussler's novels are to novels as military music is to music
Review: Fast-paced, mind-teasing, sprawling, historically-related, gadget-filled are adjectives that accurately characterize this action thriller starring James-Bondesque Dirk Pitt. I often couldn't put it down. But sexist, shallow, surface, hastily done, unintellectual, silly are also apt. Cussler writes so poorly that it often made me ache, but I still wanted to see what happened next. I am a buff of historical detective fiction, and Atlantis Found has enough bogus history and archaeology in it to be attractive. A fascinatingly competent, apparently non-sexist bronze age culture disappeared... But Cussler writes too hastily, too thinly to sustain the hunger. His characters are emotionless zombies, his fundamental attitudes simple, male and conventional, his research lazily sophomoric, his ability intelligently to complicate his bright flashes of historical imagination nonexistent...Cussler seems to confuse the massing of pseudoprecise details--the brand names of high-tech equipment, for example, or impossibly exact distances and dimensions--with actually working at his research or writing. This book could have been written by a gang of bright seventh graders.
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Summary: Don't Waste Your Money!
Review: It's unfathomable to me how after writing this book Clive Cussler expects anyone to continue buying his books. I used to be a Dirk Pitt fan, but Cussler clearly couldn't care less about his fans any longer, either that or he has a very low opinion of their intelligence. A few of his earlier Dirk Pitt novels were amusing reads but this one just plain stinks. The writing is terrible, the characters are beyond shallow, the plot is full of holes and the dialogue is worse than an old Gilligan's Island rerun. To say I was disappointed is a huge understatement. Clive's lost me as a customer... Try Patrick O'Brian's novels about the sea instead.
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Summary: The Usual Cussler Stuff
Review: I've read a number of Cussler's Dirk Pitt adventures and my general reaction is that his earlier ones tend to be better than the later ones. The plots of ALL of his books are pretty fantastic (i.e. unbelievable) but the earlier ones are more attentively written. By the time you get to ATLANTIS FOUND, you pretty much know Cussler's tried and tested format: 1. Something weird happens somewhere; 2. Dirk and Al get involved in it; 3. On the way, Dirk meets and beds a smart, pretty woman who is somehow involved with the weirdness Dirk and Al are solving (poor old Al never seems to get the girl); 4. Many cool gadgets and cars later, problem solved, Dirk gets to save the world and celebrate over a glass of vintage tequila. ATLANTIS FOUND contains some really shoddy writing and some creaky and predictable dialogue, but for pure macho escapism, it's good fun.
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Summary: TOM SWIFT FOR UNEDUCATED ADULTS
Review: Just change Dirk Pitt's name to Tom Swift and Al Giordano's to Bud Barclay and any uneducated adults who ran out of Tom Swift books will find something here to amuse themselves. That is exactly how this book reads. Very predictable, full of logic holes, and a flying car to boot. LMAO.
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Summary: you haven't read it yet ?!?!?!
Review: This is the best thriller ever!!!
it's so vivid , it's like watching a movie rather than reading a book.
GET IT FAST!!!
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Summary: A Thrill a Minute!
Review: Dirk Pitt, special projects director for the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), is a James Bond-type character who is involved in perilous activities on an almost daily basis, but seems to escape relatively unscathed with aplomb and finesse. His best friend and sidekick, Al Giordino, is an equally colorful character. The action begins in the abandoned Paradise Mine in Colorado, where Pitt and Giordino become involved in the dramatic rescue of a scientist after the tunnel collapses and floods when she in brought in to analyze some ancient hieroglyphs in an underground cavern. It soon becomes obvious that the tunnels were sabotaged by some evil murderers who didn't want anyone to know of the existence of the ancient cavern. Pitt and Giordino determine that their pursuers are hired killers employed by the Fourth Empire, which is a militant group involved in advancing Hitler's evil reign of 50 years ago. The plot becomes very complicated, moving from one continent to another. Hugo Wolf and his perfectly cloned family are the designated leaders of the Fourth Empire and are ruthless in their pursuit of world domination. Their vast wealth seems to be a result of the many purloined art treasures stolen by the Nazi's during the war. Pitt uncovers Wolf's plot to cause a cataclysmic worldwide flood that would destroy all civilizations, except for those that have been designated to live on several floating cities designed to withstand the flood and sustain life for many years until the floods recede. Pitt and Giordino make a heroic death-defying attempt to thwart the plans of the evil Fourth Empire. Atlantis Found is filled with complex, high-tech, non-stop action, although at times it veers into fantasy and is too unrealistic to be believable. Pitt's relationship with Loren, his long-term romantic interest, as well as Giordino's blooming romance with the rescued scientist, Pat O'Connell, provide some relief from the frantic, non-stop action.
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Summary: Over the top but enjoyably readable
Review: Like most of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt series, "Atlantis Found" involves a wildly intricate plot that ties together disasters from the past with imminent catastrophe in the present. In this case, one of the disasters in the past was a comet that struck the Earth about 9000 years ago, causing massive tidal waves and shifting of the continents. Unfortunately for us, the comet had a twin that missed at that time, but that was predicted to come back . . . 9000 years later. Throw in neo-Nazis, nanotechnology, and the remains of an Atlantis-like civilization, and you have the latest Pitt adventure. Prior to "Deep Six," Cussler wrote fairly realistic adventure novels -- "Raise the Titanic!" was as much about the engineering feat of lifting the Titanic from its resting place as it was about an adventure to find an incredibly rare and potent crystal. But starting with "Deep Six," Cussler began weaving more and more science fiction/science fantasy into his book: mind control, lunar colonies, artificial intelligence, and so on. "Atlantis Found" is probably an extreme even for Cussler, and as it turns out the science/fantasy part is the weakest element. To begin with, the comet strike in 7000 BC just is too hard to swallow. Supposedly it wipes out 99 percent of animals and humans through floods and climate changes. But nothing like that remotely happened in real life -- sure, woolly mammoths and sabre-tooth tigers died out, but there's no mass extinction as one would expect. Besides the influx of science fiction, "Atlantis Found" continues other trends of Cussler's more recent novels: the appearance of numerous recurring characters (Perlmutter, the maritime history expert/gourmand; Congresswoman Smith, Pitt's on-off love interest; more abuse heaped on Rudi Gunn, the second in command of the fictional Nat'l Underwater and Maritime Agency; Yaeger, the computer expert), as well as yet another deus ex machina by the author himself, who has appeared in a number of adventures as an "old" and "grizzled" character, sometimes a prospector, sometimes a bartender, etc. It's actually quite bizarre and I'm not sure what to make of it. In the end, this is more of what you can expect from Cussler. I stayed up until 2 in the morning to finish it.
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Summary: Renewed my faith in Cussler...
Review: As of yet, this is the 3rd book by Cussler I have read. The first one wasn't even 200 pages (Iceberg), and although I was impressed with Cusslers ability to narate, the storyline didn't impress me. The seccond one was about an archeologist and a mad scientist-like artifact collecter in Peru, and ended up with finding an underground river near the California Peninsula (Inca Gold). The plot didn't impress me there, either. When I bought this one, I (intrestingly) did so not because of an interest in Greek mythology, but because of the Authors reputation. I finally found a story where Pitt is trying to stop a plot to literally concourr the world. I didn't belive the part about the Nazis using captured siberian prisoners during world war 2 to build a base in antartica, but the U-boat did provide an interesting twist. As a student of the German language, I was interested to hear the caracters discuss the name 'fourth empire' and also was interested with the introduction of SEALs...But the end is good in that it shows that not even Pitt--the scuba-diving Indiana Jones,James Bond, or Jack Ryan--can take on the reich without special ops. help...but that's for me to know, and you to read about!
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