The Trench

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Summary: Love to see a movie from the book
Review: I loved the book!! It took me awhile to read because I have two small children, but once I started I couldn't put it down. I love sharks, especially great whites and when I saw your book in the store I had to get it. I had only heard about the megladon just recently on the discovery channel. They had found a tooth. I would love to see the book be turned into a movie!! I think it would be a hit! I read you were waiting for the right script, but I think it should be taken straight out of the book word for word. I mean if the book was a great hit then if you took the movie straight from that why wouldn't the movie be a hit? You have a great talent, keep on writing!!

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Summary: Jaws 5
Review: I love shark stories, for light reading they are always fun. This story is okay but Alten writes like an amateur. Instant character delvelopment, rushed dialog and way too many cliques. "He thought of Terry, and his heart ached for her. He tried to recall the last time they had laughed together...." I guess I'm just mad because I paid full price for the book and I was looking forward to a fun read but the poor writing distracts beyond enjoyment.

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Summary: The Trench
Review: This was the best book I have ever read. I'm not the kind of person that reads a lot of books but as soon as i saw this it caught my attention. If you're like me and you love sharks, you'll love this book. Another good book for shark lovers is "Twelve Days of Terror" by Richard G. Fernicola, M.D. This book is about the 1916 shark attacks on New Jersey.

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Summary: Angel, Bad Girl
Review: The story is great. You never know from one minute to the next just exactly what the people keeping Angel are going to encounter. I started reading and couldn't put the book down. Can you imagine going down 7 feet in the ocean in one of those little subs? The fear and anxiety they encountered was real. I'm anxiously awaiting the sequel.

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Summary: Great White Grand-daddy!
Review: "The Trench" is the story of Jonas Taylor, a Paleo-biologist, and his obsession with Carcharodon Megalodon, a supposedly extinct species of shark related to the Great White, which grows to a length of 60 feet. This is Steve Alten's second novel about these sharks. His first novel was "Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror". This story follows the exploits of "Angel", a captive carcharodon megalodon at the Monterey Aquarium. Predictably, Angel escapes her captors and they persue her hoping to recapture her. There are many confrontations with Angel which keep you on the edge of your seat waiting to see what will happen next. I am an action fan and don't have the patience to do a great deal of reading where nothing much happens. Steve Alten's novels never disappoint me. If you have any interest in sharks at all, you will love this book. You should also visit his web-site for information on any of his past, present, or future projects.

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Summary: Not as good as MEG
Review: This book revolves around the offspring of the shark from the first book. The plots very interesting but it doesn't pack the same punch as MEG. This time they go down into the trench and encounter prehistoric marine lizards as well as giant, glowing great white sharks. >rolls eyes< I hate it when they try to cram too much into a story. It's still a good read. If you liked MEG then you'd like this one

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Summary: It was good... but is the trench and the shark real?
Review: I thought the book had a lot of profanity in it. But what can I say, half the stuff now-a-days is like that.The ending was kinda strange, when it just said that Angel will prowl the trench, and you don't know what happens to her. Will there be a third book? I hope so, and I also hope that it is twice as good as the first two.

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Summary: Good book...but is the real thing just a fake?
Review: The book was good, but the way it was described at "Angel's tank" sounded quite like it. And since the location could not be said...how does anyone know that it is real? Sure people have said that they have seen it, but some of the pictures looked like the "shark" was electronic, like in "Jaws". Now, I am no shark scientist, but I could tell that some of the pictures looked fake. That is just my opinion, though.

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Summary: Neither good science nor good fiction
Review: As in Meg (which I gave a 5-star review on Amazon by hitting the wrong key), Alten has taken a heck of a promising villian (Megalodon) and turned it into chum. His science is simply terrible. Start with the fact that we know there are no hydrothermal vents and no warmed layer of water at the bottom of "The Trench." If we make the logical assumption that Meg would behave much as modern sharks do, this weird-acting anthropomorphic creature is impossible to accept as a shark. The humans are no better. Simple one-dimensional figures, they stumble through one miraculous surival escapade after another. The only thing Alten gets right is pacing. The plot hums along nicely, and the book is a fast read, but neither the creatures (reptiles evolving gills? If it's possible, why hasn't it happened in 400 million years?) nor the humans hold the reader's interest.

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Summary: Must Read!!!
Review: This book is spine-tingling yet awesome. You must read MEG first to understand the true horror of the novel.