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Summary: The Best
Review: For all you people that said this book is the dumbest book in the world then your are tripping on weed because this is the best book i have ever read.For people that want to critize this book then go back to your picture books because this book is way too good and advance for you
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Summary: Dum-dum dum-dum dum-dum
Review: The first novel I ever read was Jaws, and its still a favorite. And now, many years later, I come to find someone has decided to move that tried and true story into the 90's, with a Michael Crichton spin to boot. It seems the Megalodon, Jaws's bigger, ugler and florencent cousin, is a live and well down in one of the deepest trenches of the sea, a whaddaya know, one just happens to make it back to the surface. As one character explains, we people are too small a food for it, that it will hunt bigger game. And no sooner said, the giant shark is snacking surfers and tourist boats (and the odd navy sub.) Can we find a way to stop it. Take a wild stab. Now many people have discribed this book as a novelisation rather than a novel, and in a way they are right. Meg (title needs work) is a collection of action scenes and a number of homages to its glorious predessor (a surfer must outrace it, an cheating spouse goes down in a modified shark cage)all of which is designed for the movie screen. Don't get me wrong, the book is a lot of fun, but the flick should be even more so. One big quibble - why does annoying enviromentalist Dupont (who unfortunately survives this novel,) want to save the beast? It's a marine enviromental nightmare and should have called for its immediate destruction! All said and done, a fun, if silly, homage to the Peter Benchley classic, though the author needs to brush up on some of his facts. Jurrasic Shark indeed. (PS: despite Altan's obvious love for the creature, the Megoladon was not the most fearsome marine hunter of the dinosaur age - there were many creatures that could have easily swallowed it whole!)
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Summary: The only terror in this book is that it got published!
Review: Man oh man what a dog! I read this book with a sense of amazement that grew with each terribly written page. A word of advice for those sadomasochistic readers who liked it. Maybe it's time to get some therapy. And now I hear the sequal "Sire" was rejected by Doubleday(Gee, what a surprise after how "Meg" tanked at the bookstores)and Alten is suing them. Classy book, classy guy.
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Summary: A Good First Book
Review: I read MEG about two weeks ago, and I have to admit that I was totally weirded out. The idea of a helicopter being chased into the sky by a gigantic luminescent shark, the matter-of-fact mention of a boy's skull imploding, they were completely terrifying. I'm probably going to be a bit wary of the ocean come summer. Unfortunately, Alten makes us care about some characters but not others. I didn't really care for Jonas one way or another, but I was really rooting for the surfing kid who was trying to outswim the monster. I didn't feel unhappy for Maggie when she got her "reward," but I was rather sorry when DJ got his. Et cetera. Alten leaves too much to the imagination at the end, probably to accomodate a sequel to both book and movie.
What happens to the baby Meg? That's what I'd like to know.
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Summary: Fast, exciting, entertaining, BUT.....
Review: I had no trouble believing the premise, or even the wild ending. This is fiction after all, and as fiction MEG works for me. Certainly the writing is lacking in sophistication; the characters are shallow and flat -- especially the female characters who are completely unbelievable. In fact, the subplot about ambitious Maggie was unnecessary. It added nothing but more mayhem to the plot, and it kept the story from becoming an engrossing man versus beast fable. Too bad Alten didn't pursue the real potential here. I believe this will make a good, exciting movie and look forward to seeing it. As for those reviewers who enjoyed bashing MEG, I have two pieces of advice: first, relax and see this as the late 1990's entertainment that it is. Second, before complaining that someone can't write worth a lick, please review your review and check for spelling errors and grammatical lapses.
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Summary: Just when you though it was safe to get back in the water
Review: Great page turner. Lacks originality, typical man vs. beast scenario. Great scientific explanations.
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Summary: Meg takes a bite out of Jaws
Review: I have read Jaws and I must admit, it was a great book, BUT it was not an accurate representation of the great white. Making them look like vicous man-eaters, stupid, and revengful. Certainly not a real great white. And Benchley said himself, that if he knew as much as about great whites then as he does now, he would never have written the book and let it become a movie. Afterall, thousands of sharks died due to one fictional shark. But now that more people are educated about them, they may hold off on the massacre this time. For one, Meg's don't exist...as far as we know. I had heard about meg before when I was younger and was more interested in the past. After this book, I feel I know more about them than ever. I even talked to someone at Disney's Animal Kingdom from Dinoland USA...who is a teacher and researcher of such animals and he did't know half the things I told him, when I am only 19. Alten's book is great! Not only the story, but the over-all education. It really opens you mind. Especially on his theory on why they could STILL exist! It is certainly not impossible. We already have many living-fossils alive today. Alligators, insects, the ceolocanth, and amphibians. They all lived around the same time with the dinosaurs and megs. And right on the first page, it catches you attention. It's a must read, no matter what these others say!
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Summary: A review from the grave?
Review: If Dorthy Parker were alive today THIS might be the book that she would skewer with her famous line: "This book shouldn't be tossed aside lightly, it should be thrown with great force."
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Summary: A very, very poor writer Steve Alten is..
Review: It could have been good...but Alten is a limited writer, he is too fond of clichés. Note the dialogues, they are just awful. And the passage when the hero kills the shark is embarrasing. It surprises me that a grown man has written this book. Even more, that someone actually published it. I've thrown my copy away, and that is something I have never done before. "Meg" is sooo bad...
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Summary: FILLED WITH ACTION! A LITTLE FAR-FETCHED
Review: Well, it was full of suspenseful action and I believed the first half of the book was great! But it is quite similar to Jurassic Park and the part where Jonas carves his way out of the stomach had me cracking up. But ah well, it was a fun read with some very scary scenes. Not as good as Lost World, White Shark & The Relic, but still nicely done!
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