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Summary: Eric's review of Meg
Review: meg is a actually a pretty good book. This means quite a bit coming from me because i really do not like to read. This book is interesting and full of action. Eventhough I was sort of forced to read, i am glad i chose this book to read. If you like books with dinosaur like creatures and lots of action, i would recommend this book.
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Summary: Great book if u love Sharks and the ocean.
Review: Meg has taught me a lot about sharks and exploring the ocean. I can't wait to read the sequel "the Trench" it sounds like it will be a great book too. I am one of Mr. Neill's students, who is the author of "Adventures in Spacetime" so check that book out, and we are learning about Sharks and Meg has taught us even more. i really like the part about the shark having the baby shark. It was a cool little story about that. Well i would recommend this book to anyone who likes sharks or anyone who wants to know more about sharks.
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Summary: Holly Hellenschmidt
Review: Meg was a great book about mysteries of the deep, including sharks and other marine animals but mostly sharks. It was cool becuase it really got you into the book and ever since we read it i have always known a little more about sharks. I would recommend any reader to read this, but beware becuase a few people get hurt in the book but in the end it it cool.
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Summary: Save a Tree, Ignore this Book!
Review: I don't need 1000 words, just 6: The worst book I've ever read! Bar none! Hands down! Period, dot, the end! And before you jump down my throat: I LOVE horror and suspense and mystery. This had none of it. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Unless maybe you've spent your life completely ignorant of any of those three concepts... Nope. Even if I'd NEVER read a horror book or seen a horror movie before, I'd still be bored to tears by this idiotic thing. Meg wouldn't scare a three-year-old. It is the worst writing I've read in years, the characters were one-dimensional (if not outright RACIST. I kept praying the hero would get gobbled up just so I could be done with the whole thing. ), and the ending was the lamest piece of junk I've ever read (it was like Alten was saying to himself "Well, it's gotta end somehow. How can I insult the reader's intelligence most deeply?" Yes, yes, I get the allusion to Jonah, or Gepetto, or whoever, and it was still stupid). If you WANT to waste a coupla bucks, pick it up. We can only hope, though, that the publishers who insist on giving this hack a 2nd and 3rd chance will take a hint and let it all drift quietly out of print. Mr. Alten: let someone else have their turn at wasting paper and ink, and stop wasting our time.
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Summary: The new Peter Benchley
Review: This book was incredible. I literally could not put it down. A few scenes were a little unrealistic, but remember, this is fiction (I hope!). I love reading, and I have a list of certain authors I buy as soon as they publish anything new. I usually have to read several books for an author to make it to my "list", but I'm adding Steve Alten to my list after reading "Meg". Very few authors can totally engross me in a story as Mr. Alten did. John Grisham, Sidney Sheldon, Michael Crighton, and Eileen Goudge can make anything seem interesting, and I think Mr. Alten will fit nicely into this catagory. He seems to have the gift of luring you into his books. VERY highly recommended. The only reason I didn't rate this as a 5 star book was one totally unrealistic scene at the end, but I guess he had to wind things up somehow. This is actually about a 4.99% star rating in my book.
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Summary: The most amazing novel!!!!
Review: There aren't any words I can think of to describe this novel! It is a very highly recommened reading though along with its sequal! Wonderful wonderful wonderful writing Mr. Alten!!Keep Meg coming!!!
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Summary: So much potential
Review: Now, I loved Jaws, and I have always been intriqued by the ideas put forth in Jaws by the mere suggestion of Megladons existance. This book starts out extremely well, and ends not to shabbily. It's somewhere in the middle that it gets TOO unreal(the whole scene with the Nautilus...made my skin crawl.) If you read this one, then you need to read Extinct also...if the best parts of both books were combined, then they would be an excellent novel(much like their grandfather, Jaws) instead of two mearly 'entertaining' novels.
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Summary: Like Reading an Action-Movie Script
Review: From its gruesome beginning to its sequel-setting end, MEG read like an action-movie script. It was very sophmorish with junior high dialouge and humor in places, but I couldn't bring myself to put it down. The action was fast-paced and believable, if you are willing to leave reality somewhere else for three days. I liked it and believe that it will make your stomach turn while leaving a smile on your face. It's far from being a contemporary classic (Jaws, Jurassic Park), but I feel comfortable giving it three stars for the pure thrill and enjoyment of the experience.
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Summary: It's Fiction People
Review: Before I actually give my own impression of this book I'd first like to take issue with some of the reviews I've read, especially the review by Richard Ellis. It's fiction people. A writer of fiction depends on something called 'suspension of disbelief'. The readers/viewers ability to accept and assimilate fictional information in order to support a fictional account of events. Last time I checked no one had actually cloned and created Michael Crichton's dinosaurs nor had medical science accomplished the re-animation of dead tissue as seen in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I think Mr. Ellis should stick to such riveting reads as Popular Mechanics, Gray's Anatomy, and perhaps Webster's Dictionary as to not offend his sensibilities. You've probably got an imagination tucked away somewhere, use it. Meg is an entertaining read provided that you take it for what it is, an amusement park ride. It's fun. Its dialogue is not as fluid as Shakespere's and its facts are not as solid and dry as an owners manual, but they're not meant to be. Like I've said, it's fiction. Fact and fiction are different, that's why there's a non-fiction section. Steve Alten has a flare for writing action scenes and, as there are so many, that ability makes for a quick read. I've put plenty of books down after one chapter and never picked them up again however I finished Meg in a little over one day. The most interesting character in the book is the monster, which is fine. Chances are if you've picked this book up you're probably one of those people who make a point to watch 'shark week' on the Discovery Channel and you've seen Jaws more times than you can count. You want a scary shark story and Alten delivers. I can't argue with some reviews that have taken issue with the books ending. Yeah, it's over the top, but excusable. I for one am looking forward to the books translation to the big screen (studios are vying for the movie rights as we speak). If interested Alten has a decent website, ..., where you can view CGI generated storyboards from some of the more memorable scenes in the book.
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Summary: It was good at first...
Review: According to Alten, MEG was meant to be "fast-paced and fun, but believable." Indeed, MEG was an interesting and addictive book to read. Even for a amateur leisure reader like myself, I found it to be more appealing than television. However, as I reached the concluding chapters of this novel, I felt as if I was not given a closure that was consistent with the rest of the book. Throughout the novel I was given the impression that Alten was going for a believable story line. MEG uses much scientific evidence and devotes much of itself towards helping the reader believe all its events. By the time I reached the end of the novel, I was trying to decide exactly what level of realism the book was meant to be at. It stood on two conflicting levels, and in my opinion no book can pull this off. If I were aware of this jump in realism before I read the book, I would not have put myself through reading it. I would not recommend this book to anyone. Even though MEG was successful in entertaining me through the majority of its pages, the let-down at the end ruins the whole experience. Spare yourself the pain and don't pick up this book.
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