Meg

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Summary: best book ive ever read
Review: i thought meg was the best book ive ever read! the book was action from beggining 2 end! mr. alten is the best of the best and this is just his first book! im hoping the trench will be better!

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Summary: Disapointed on the suspense
Review: I was very disapointed with the suspense in this book. A lot of exageration of a 60 foot shark that can propel itsel out of water and hit a helicopter. That it can crush a submarine and that the hero destroys it by being inside and removing the heart.

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Summary: I've read "What I Did This Summer" essays that were better
Review: I really want my money back on this one. He's no Peter Benchley; he's no Michael Crichton. I know seventh graders who write better than this. A 60 foot, 20 ton fish is going to propel his entire body length out of the water like (yes, folks, I REALLY am quoting here) "an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile" trying to chop on a helicopter? PLEASE! Personally, I wish Meg had gotten our hero AND his crusty chopper pilot and saved me about 100 pages and a COMPLETELY goofy ending. P.S. Mr. Alten: Dinosaurs are NOT reptiles, so stop calling them that.

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Summary: This book ,swallow you whole.Tenderize ya.Down ya go.
Review: This book has something.If they made a movie of it, it could be edited differently.Just like Jaws was.I see a future in it.They can change the end a little differently,making it more realistic.People like mystery.Not subs going into a shark.I can see maybe biting into the sub.Also get someone who can conduct great music for it.NOT SOME UNKNOWN.Music helps in a film alot,and acting

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Summary: Like Jaws... Only BETTER!!!
Review: Steve Alten did a great job with this book. You are simply captivated from beginning to end. The characters are so well developed they seem real and as you read more and more of the book (you just can't seem to put it down) you begin to feel like you're right there, 5 miles below the surface of the ocean seeing a faint glow circling in the distance... coming closer and closer. Suddenly you notice that you've broken out into a cold sweat and your hands are shaking like crazy! This is a great book and is much like Micheal Crichton's book Jurrasic Park in that the plot of the story could actually come true! This book is well researched and beatifully written. I recommend it to everyone who loves a great book.

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Summary: Great Idea, Little Suspense
Review: This book has a great plot: a 60 foot version of a great white shark has surfaced from the Mariana Trench, and is eating everything in sight. Unfortunately, the book comes up a little short in creating a realistic approach to the story, and there's a lot of predictability. An example is that the hero searches for the Megalodon with a stolen helicopter. And the book seems to be poorly and sloppily put together, with almost no plot twists, which gives the book its predictability. And the "utterly amazing climax" also falls short of expectations. (The hero, named Jonas, goes into the sharks belly with a mini-sub and stabs the cardiac muscles to death. I dread Disney's recreation of this scene.) There is almost no suspense throughout the story so I have no idea how they got the idea of comparing it to Michael Crichton's thrillers, such as "Sphere." Despite this, "Meg" is a good read for those that like sci-fi and don't mind a lack of suspense.

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Summary: From the bargain bin to the trash bin...
Review: What a piece of work. The good guys use radar underwater, the big bad shark can chew up a nuclear sub, and our cardboard hero kills the shark by ripping its heart out from the inside, via mini submarine. This is without a doubt the worst book ever put to paper. I threw it in the trash with twenty pages to go. "A novel of deep terror", indeed...I fear the movie already.

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Summary: When I bought the book I could not put it down until done.
Review: The night I bought the paperback book I could not put it down, no matter what, until I was all the way completely finished. Usually when I start a book and it takes about 3 days to a week to finish, but because it grabbed me from the start I sat up all night and was done by dawn. The following night I talked a couple of my friends into buying it for themselves, with them having the same joys in reading it as I did. I liked the fact that he used true knowings of a extinct animal which gave the story a far more belief in terror then a extremely large Great White Shark, (Even though I loved Jaws as well.). So if your looking for something with some fact in its terror then by all means check it out. Also I think it would make a fantastic movie, because of all the new high tech advances there is in the todays movie making, (The movie Jaws was, in its time, good but this could be great.).

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Summary: Mr Alten has an amazing talent...
Review: Mr Alten has an amazing talent....to write drivel. Rarely have I read such poorly executed fiction. "MEG" represents all that is misguided about contemporary fiction; where commercial objectives (MEG is so blatantly contrived for the silver screen) prevail over substance. Sadly Mr Alten, with his mechanical prose, fails dismally. MEG isn't even remotely entertaining. AVOID THIS ONE.

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Summary: I Need Glasses
Review: I was a few pages into this when I realized Steve Allen didn't write this! What a mess! I can't believe how silly and poorly written this is. Brain-rotting junk. I'm going to get glasses and a copy of Mr. Allen's latest!