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Summary: A DISAPPOINTMENT
Review: Off the coast of Chile a gigantic meteorite is found. In New York, billionaire, museum owner, Palmer Lloyd, plans to put together a team to secretly retrieve the meteorite, and return it to the museum. The mission will be a difficult one, as the object will be the largest ever returned to the states. Once begun, the adventurers must battle various obstacles, as well as defend their lives.Preston and Child write great adventure fiction, this novel not being on the same level as their previous novels. It takes a while to get started, and when it finally gets steam it does not seem to go anywhere. "The Ice Limit" is readable, but for great escapist reading pick up the previous novel "Thunderhead". Nick Gonnella
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Summary: A very solid read
Review: Preston and Child have done it again. This book is no match for Relic or Riptide but is still solid read none-the-less. Great characters and gripping plot. The one small drawback was that it did seem to rehash plots from previous books, as I saw someone else mention above. This seemed to be a cross between Riptide and Thunderhead. But hey when you cross 2 great books together, you should have a solid book as well, shouldn't you? And this is.
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Summary: A Non-Stop Page Turner
Review: Preston and Child have yet again written a novel which will keep you glued to your seat for hours. A mixture of science, adventure, drama and intrigue combine to make "The Ice Limit" a fabulous read. Each character is carefully developed and any reader will find them not only likeable, but also quite believable. I'm a great fan of the way women are depicted in their novels as a whole, and this one in particular. The women are strong, intelligent and not sidelined to unimportant roles. As always, the authors have chosen interesting locales and described them so well that you feel like you're actually there. If you have never read a Preston Child novel, this would be a great one to start with. Then go back and read their others ("Relic" is the absolute best). You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Blah -- skip this one
Review: I so much looked forward to this novel, as there are not enough quality novelists out there to provide me with year-long reading. What a disappointment, then, at the mish-mash rehash of plots from their earlier works. OK, they write splendidly. And this isn't a truly bad read. It's probably even worth the cover price for someone who hasn't read Child and Preston before. But for fans, it may register as a black mark on their record.
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Summary: 4 1/2 stars
Review: Another fine adventure from Preston and Child that doesn't disappoint. Billionaire Palmer Lloyd usually gets what he wants. What he happens to want now is a 25,000 ton meteorite that's half buried on a desolate island south of Cape Horn. Eli Glinn is hired by Palmer Loydd to get this job done. Glinn runs a successful engineering company that has never failed at any job its taken on. Sam McFarlane is also hired by Lloyd. McFarlane's knowledge of meteorites is needed and his old friend also just happens to be the man who discovered this largest meteorite. A darn good read. Fast paced and almost believable. Intriguing reading begins with Preston and Child. Keep it up... Highly recommended
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Summary: Another Hit Novel
Review: What can I say? Preston & Child know how to write fantastic novels. They continue to amaze me with their story lines. I am ready for the sequel after this one.
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Summary: ultra-action packed adventure
Review: Billionaire Palmer Lloyd wants to own the world's reputedly biggest meteorite, which is allegedly on Chile's Isla Desolacion. Palmer knows that the incredible find would be the perfect selling point of his new museum. All he wants done is the transporting of the gigantic outer space rock from Cape Horn to New York Harbor without the Chilean government knowing what he has done. Budgeted cost is $300 million to move twenty million pounds halfway across the world. Needing talented but disgraced individuals, Palmer hires infamous meteorite hunter Sam McFarlane, ruthless engineer Eli Glinn, and alcoholic sea Captain Britton among others. The leaders expect major problems. It was not a surprise to them when the Chilean government, in this case exiled officer Commandante Vallenar, tried to stop them. They expected nasty weather and even had a drop dead switch for any catastrophe so that the devastating storm was not a shocker. However, none of the trio was prepared for the powers of the meteorite to kill the crew one at a time. THE ICE LIMIT is an ultra-action packed adventure that will thrill sub-genre fans with its non-stop action. Though the premise is a bit simplistic, the story line goes full throttle as Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child puts the peddle to the metal. The lead charcaters are all interesting in their own way. Amidst numerous deaths Sam feels vindicated, Eli feels whole again, and Britton feels as if she regained her life. The climax is a real kicker as expected by this talented duo of realistic scientific horror tales (see RELIC, RIPTIDE, and THUNDERHEAD, etc.) who scores with another frightening but exciting novel. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Fasten your seat belts!
Review: Just what I've come to expect from Preston and Child - non-stop, thrilling, and almost impossible to put down.
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Summary: Yet another great novel!
Review: I don't think these two gentlemen could write a bad book 'cause everyone of their books thus far has been superb and "The Ice Limit" is no exception. I finish most of their books in only a day or so due to their page-turning power and this one was finished during the weekend. It gives us a new set of characters, an interesting set of locations and some astounding story-telling. Only trouble with Lincoln Preston books is you're constantly wondering 'When is the next one coming out??'
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Summary: A Meteoric Beach Read
Review: Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs have been magnificent, edge-of-the chair storytellers from their very first collaboration, Reliquary. But their writing skills have been honed in every subsequent novel, giving their characters greater substance and sharpening their plots. If this story seems familiar, it is. Its key elements are variants of a somewhat standard storyline for these writers: Another rich eccentric teams up with some Indiana Jones-type scientists and engineers and everyone sees again that money can't buy everything, Mother Nature can be nasty, some mysteries loom beyond today's knowledge, and pushing the scientific relm might be risky. You'll know the major characters in here: Same people, same conflicts as in the earlier P&C books wearing different names. But why tamper with success? The formula works. This is another book that will keep you turning pages long past your bedtime. As in Thunderhead and their others, Preston calls on his background at New York's American Museum of Natural History to provide some scientific underpinning to this tale -- enough so you may even collect a little stray knowledge of meteorites and supertankers. Take it to the beach or a summer hammock. No Pulitzers here; no National Book Awards. But thrilling fun!
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