Meg

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Summary: A fantastic book that keeps you gripped in its jaws!
Review: This book is a great read foer all thriller lovers. It is full of suspense and what makes it all the more interesting is the thought that it could happen. The characters are well developed and although the ending is over the top it doesn't let you down. It should be made into a film as it would crush Godzilla and have the same excitment as Jurassic Park.

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Summary: Entralling story.
Review: I bought MEG only recently (June of 1999) because the blurb on the jacket sounded good. Well the story started out a little slow but it was laying the foundation for what turned out to be a really exciting book. I loved it so much that I told my husband the entire story from beginning to end so he had no need to read it..LOL. When The Trench came out just a few weeks later I picked it up without even reading the blurb...if it was a sequel to MEG I wanted to read it. Maybe the technical details weren't accurate as some other readers have said but I don't read books to tear them apart...I read them for entertainment and Steve Alten delivers.

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Summary: Great summer read!!!! Movie worthy.
Review: I read this book last summer on my trip. After I got to my destination, I had a very hard time remembering if I had seen a movie or read a book. It just swallowed me whole and I was in another world when I read this book. I look forward to reading , 'Trench'.

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Summary: Meg is the Bomb
Review: Meg is one of the best books i have ever read. Jaws has nothing on Meg. The book is in a league of it's own. I am so glad that Disney is making it into a movie; I hope they remain true to the book and keep the opening scene.

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Summary: Good book, not a great book, but it was a good book.
Review: I have to say that I did enjoy reading Meg. I know that years ago when I first read Jaws I turned the last page and felt that I would not be able to go on if I did not find out what happened next. That was not the case with Meg. Jonas was not the most likeable character in the world. How long was his mourning period over his recently eaten wife? Ten minutes...maybe. However, the story moved quickly and the theory of this prehistoric shark actually existing gave me something to think about for a few days. I will probably read The Trench. Having read some of the other reviews for it on Amazon, it appears that some people think it was better than Meg.

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Summary: Jurassic shark? not exactly.....
Review: Despite the fact that the novel has a fast-paced and somewhat exciting plot, the factual information is made up or stretched from page one. Carcharocles megalodon was never alive during the Mesozoic Era and evolved only about 30 million years ago. The teeth didn't get 8 inches long, the jaws only got about 7 feet in diameter, etc. The technology was misinterprated with incorrect info just as much. It seems as if the author did absolutely NO research into the topics he covered, making this novel a very uncredible read. Maybe if the information was CORRECT and the characters were developed more this would be a good read, but don't think you can throw away Jaws or Jurassic Park.

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Summary: Better than Jaws in every way
Review: Meg is the best Shark story I have every read. I thought that it was a Jaws spin off. But boy was I wrong. I am still a little scared of deep water thanks to Meg. The fast pace of the story keeps you glued to the book to the very end and then makes you beg for the sequal. The details of the Meg is the begin of the terror that draws you in. The charcters have the needed guilts and sins to seem realistic and make you feel the story with them. I love this book and I can't wait for this to be made into a movie.

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Summary: Irrefutably, Alten's monster is a legend in the making!
Review: There's no doubt in my mind that if Peter Benchley's "JAWS" ever met Steve Alten's "MEG" it would squeal and swim away to safety! Thus is the crux on which many reviewers make their mistake when using Benchley's shark as a comparison to any meg. To justify Alten's horrifying sea creature THERE JUST IS NO COMPARISON! "MEG" is a rip roaring, flesh devouring terror! If Benchley had taken half the time to dig through a little more research I suspect he would have come up with Alten's much more supportable answer to a 40, 50 or even 60 ft. shark then suggest a Great White could ever amount to such massive proportions. In this aspect, "MEG" is simply ten times more believable. Alten gets down in there and scrounges around in the deep with the rest of his characters whereas Benchley's awareness always seems to remain more aloof. All in all, if I had a choice to take with me on a desert island it would have to be Benchley's more unbelievable "JAWS" because "MEG" would simply scare me out of my wits reading it anywhere near a large body of water! I can't wait until the sequel!

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Summary: implausible characters and offensive stereotypes
Review: I really wanted to like this book-- I really did. This book is terrible because:

1. The hypermasculine, infallible (and implausibly lucky) and generally idealized main character Jonas Taylor is just that: too idealized.

2. For those of us who would like to suspend our disbelief for a few hours and just imagine what such a creature would be like, I implore Mr. Alten: just write the book, and spare us your political and social leanings.

3. Tell us: if she was so inherently evil, why did Jonas marry her in the first place? Also, why was he *ever* friends with 'Bud', his ex-friend and paramour of his wife? If nothing else, Jonas must be an extremely bad judge of character, in which case he must somewhat responsible for the justly deserved abuse he received at their hands.

The biggest fish story here isn't the fish. It's the characters, and my greatest wish after about fifty pages was to see Jonas eaten by the Megalodon. After all, as a character it is far more interesting than Jonas, and the chances that it exists are thankfully far greater than they are for Jonas.

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Summary: I love shark/monster books/movies, and this one is fun!
Review: I enjoyed reading it when it came out two years ago. I may have enjoyed it more if not for the pain killers I was on for my wisdom teeth removal. I hope to read TRENCH the sequel soon. It is a fast read, with plenty of "novice-style" writing, but I have faith in Steve. He's an underdog, judging by an article I read. And he's local as well (Florida). I hope Disney can make a good movie, though I know they're waiting on the results from DEEP BLUE SEA. I think I can speak for all of us when I say we NEED another shark movie!