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Summary: The Shark eats everyone!
Review: If you are looking for a good shark book with lots of action, this is it! I am obsessed with sharks so my husband bought this book for me based on the cover. This is like a cross between Jaws and a VC Andrews novel. Definitely more heavy on the VC Andrews side. You may feel a little dirty after this one but you won't be able to put it down. At times I found this book to be a little misogynistic, particulary the portrayal of Celeste, but the fact that the shark was female made up for it. The great thing about this book is that the shark eats everything and she doesn't discriminate based on age, occasion, or species. The thrill of the hunt and suspense in the Trench is exhilarating. The characters are pretty contrived but that's cool, sometimes you want the good to be good and the bad to be all evil. I can't wait to read Meg.
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Summary: Hair Raising
Review: From almost the moment I opened the book, I couldn't put it down. It only took me 2 days to read the entire book. If, in fact a shark of this nature did exist, it would shock the world. Could you imagine being in a boat on the ocean and have something of that immenseness suddenly emerge from under the surface. I found the book very intense. The descriptive work in it made me feel as if I were actually there. I could feel Jonas's feelings as if they were my own. To only imagine a shark of that size still in existance today would be hard. If this trench did host a meg, it would be most certainly important not to reveal it's true location. Steve, keep up the good work. I am looking in the bookstores for 'Domain'. I have not yet found it but I will keep looking for it. You are a serious writer and I admire your descriptive work. Sincerely, Donna M. Smith
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Summary: Anyone still want to go to the beach?
Review: I was really impressed with this book. I can see how Alten has improved his writing style since the first book. Plus, he gives us a female character who is not out only for money or sex. In Jonas' wife, Terry, we see a smart, savvy woman who can take care of herself. I liked that.I'm still having a hard time actually visualizing a shark as big as Angel (the Megalodon) is supposed to be, but I still really enjoyed the book. I actually found myself rooting for the shark in a couple of instances (you'll see what I mean), and was happy with the ending (which I won't tell you).
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Summary: been done
Review: Nice monster, moderate suspense, but it's been done. Sharks, whoopty-doo! Seventy feet? Wow that's that's uh, that's real big I'm sure. The bottom line is, Megaladon, as countless people seem to beleive (due to films and books like this), is not the largest, most powerful predator the world has ever seen. That would be LIOPLEURODON. At eighty feet long and weighing one hundred and fifty tons, it would make a snack out of the Megaladon sharks (who only grew to about sixty feet inlength). Liopleurodon was not only larger and stronger, it was probably smarter, I'm talking killer whale intelligence. All you have to do to imagine this guy is combine a crocodile and a killer whale, boost it's size up (waaaay up), give it a sixteen foot long skull, and you've got it. I'm extremely surprised no one has written a book about this true king of the deep. The good thing about this book is that it did involve a Kronosaurus, a smaller and less impressive cousin of Liopleurodon, in it's story.
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Summary: The Trench
Review: What can one such as myself say , except this is one of the most gripping book's I hava ever read. It has it all action , suspence , twists and turn's , but my all time best is that it is all possible. Most of this book is based on fact , not fiction. In my eye's anything is possible. My hat's off to you Mr. Steve Alten!!!
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Summary: Love That MEG!!!!
Review: I would recomend this book to any one who wants a page turner and a bone chilling horror novel. I read it on the bus and even the loud mouths shut up to listen, I signed it out at my library, I couldn't put this book down, I really think this book should be a movie even though you should still read it. Definatly a sequel I can't wait to see what happens next, so READ THE BOOK!!!!! P.S. Steve Alten I really think you 're one of the best horror authors so PLEASE write a sequel!!!! sincerly SW
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Summary: Rerally Cool Book
Review: The book was awesome I thought it really cool and it made sense to me I think people should read than nothing else to get a kick out of it.
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Summary: Terror has never run this commercial
Review: Oh, my, it's embarassing to think that I did recommend Steve Alten's Meg some time ago. This sequel is actually so bad that I'm having second thoughts about Meg itself, which I had like in first place. To say that the Trench is pure formula is an understatement. A deep one. Compared to the prose in this book Stephen King is Shakespeare, and I don't like Mr. King particularly. The reviewers below tend to say that the science in The Trench is far superior than it is in Meg. I'm no science expert, but I can assure you that, if the science is better, the writing is much, much poorer. I can only imagine that Mr. Alten wrote The Trench as a tremendous pun, as a parody of himself. Take, for instance, the risible chapter titles. Can you really take seriously titles like "Bad Karma", "True Confessions", "Risky Business"? I swear there's a chapter entitled "Seafood." Dead serious. Then there is the character of Jonas. In Meg he was a human being. In The Trench he is again a parody of himself, a stupid Rambo-macho-thing unable control either his fears or his fists. Jonas goes hospitalized three times in this book, with severe injuries, and he is always up and well again in the next few pages, ready to kick off Angel's menacing extended gums again. And the dialogues? Where in hell were these taken from? "Remember, all of the truly significant battles are waged whithin the self." "I'd rather die with you than live without you." Enough said. Skip this one.
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Summary: The Trench
Review: I loved The Trench. I thought it wouldn't be as good as Meg but I thought that both works were wonderful! Thank you Steve Alten for writting two wonderful, suspenseful novel.
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Summary: The Trench
Review: I was very impressed by the book. I was also impressed that Steve would research everything about these Megalodons. I think they are facinating creatures. I'm still trying to comprehend just how Big they really are. I live in a 14x70 mobile home and Angel is 72 ft long in the book. Wow,what a big fish. I loved all of the Jaws movies and I know I will Love MEG & The TRENCH when they come out. I am also going to buy several copies of each movies to have on hand in case they wear out. Also there are 5 other families waiting in 2 different states for the movies ,hopefully(3) to come out. I/We can't wait for Primal Waters to come out either so we all can read it 20+ times.
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