Meg

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Summary: needs suspense!!!!!!!!!!
Review: As with most first books, its fairly lame. The only good guy eaten kills it! Plus megalodon only apeared 20 million years ago, not 70! However, it is a good book for a starting author. Entertaining, but not a "novel of deep terror."

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Summary: Meg, mega bummer
Review: Meg may be the worst book I have ever read, it's between it and Extinct, which is basically the same plot line. There is not a character in this book I can find believable. The main character is supposedly a washed out deep sea scientist with every conceivable problem in the world in an overdone effort to make us feel sorry for him. Right down to his wife sleeping with his best friend! The menace is a 60 foot long shark that the author has tried to sell as plausible... Jurassic Park had more believable biology. I won't start to bore you with the facts but suffice it to say that it is ridiculous. Then the end? I won't even try and ruin it for you but it had me laughing with the thought! If you want a more realistic, scary fish story get "One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish" by Dr. Zeus.

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Summary: One of my favorite books ever.
Review: I am not an avid reader, nor do I enjoy reading all that much, so it takes a really exciting book to keep me interested. Normally, it would take me a couple weeks just to finish one novel, but I read "MEG" in just one weekend. I could barely put it down. I would suggest this book to anyone interested in a good thriller.

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Summary: Jurassic Shark is Right!
Review: This book is one of the best I have ever read! Any one who didn't like this book is nuts. It had suspence it had action it also had a mysterios ending. I really loved this book and I would like to see him make a sequal.

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Summary: Forget "Jaws"! Believe "MEG"!
Review: WOW! A truly terrifying book! Written with easy terminology so that the laymen (like me) could understand it. I read it in a day I was that enthralled by it. Steve Alten is a genius and I can't wait for the movie.

I am an advocate to keep books as they are for movies. Screenwriters can take stuff out, but should not add. Doing so can truly cruxify a book (i.e. The Lost World). HOWEVER, the book MEG is brilliant the ending leaves the reader wishing for something a little more plausible. Cosidering the size of the shark it is concievable, but maybe TOO concievable as to lead towards going a tad over board. I could see a change in a film ending.

Bottom line: Buy the book MEG

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Summary: Bigger is NOT Better!
Review: I'll admit, MEG occupied my time and gave me mild amusment, but come-on! A giant shark glowing deamon shark is unleashed upon the unsuspecting world. oh-no! Bum,Bum,Bummmmm!!! Hasn't this been done before!?!(i.e. Jaws) Let me just say, bigger is not better in this case. I mean what can I say? ...

First, its a takeoff of a classic book (Jaws), just enlarging the villian and down sizeing the characters. Second, like I just said the characterization is horrible! I didn't like any of the characters, none where deep in anyway. I'll give it to Alten, he tried to make Jonas's terror of the sharks real but realistically you could predict this book like a bad summer movie. Third, the ending! Arggg! It made me hate this book! Don't read MEG, unless your in the mood for a bad summer movie script. MEG isn't a novel of deep terror...

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Summary: What's eating him?
Review: If you are looking for one of those books that won't let you set it aside, then Meg is for you! If you are one of us who thinks it's possible for creatures to exist on this planet even if we don't know about them, Meg is for you! If you thrill to the notion of dinosaurs, and how they would impact humans if any were still roaming around, you guessed it, Meg is for you!

I think the only part of the book that I took exception to is the last...but it wasn't enough to ruin any of the thrills I felt throughout the reading. And if you think I'm going to tell you the ending, you're sadly mistaken. Read Meg and find out for yourself! It's a fast read (you won't be able to put it down), and then you can judge for yourself.

Having read Meg, then The Trench, and now Domain, I can see Steve Alten growing in his craft...and I anxiously await his next novel! You will too.

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Summary: Here fishy fishy fishy...
Review: Ok, I don't like people reading books with false expectations. Is this book supposed to be a great work of lit? Not exactly. This is summer reading, and it delivers where it is supposed to. Better than most of its breed.

"Meg" is a sixty foot long Great White type shark. Obviously, it is a carnivore, and it is a HELL of a carnivore. You know what it is when the first thing it does in the book is kill a T-Rex.

The plot revolves around Jonas Taylor (slight biblical illusion in the first name, it is clear why he is so named in the climax) He used to pilot submersibles for the Navy, until he saw something (guess what) on a Mariana's dive, didn't surface right in his haste to get away, and killed two crewmates. Punt, out of Navy. He then goes back to school, and becomes a professor, and trys to prove that Carcharadon Megalodon, the giant fish that he believes he saw, that it still exists. He is pretty badly rediculed. So, he jumps hastily at a chance to go back down to the Trench and find what he thinks is fossil proof of the Meg's existance. Well, he isn't rediculed any more. He probably wishes he was.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but what about the FISH? Oh, if you want shark, Alten provides shark in spades. The Meg can catch and kill just about anything, and it pretty much does. Can't describe everything it does, but it does A LOT.

After you finish the book, go buy Trench, the sequel. Strongly recommended.

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Summary: Bites you with a Gripping Tale
Review: This book has to be one of the finest book that I have ever read. It is so detailed you feel you are in the water with the Meg. Alten has done a superb job at giving background information with a creative story plot to hook you in its jaws.

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Summary: Perfect summer reading...
Review: No, it's not Shakespeare. No, it won't make you re-think your deep-seated convictions about human nature. No, it won't even tell you that much about sharks.

But man, this was fun to read! (As was the sequel, which I found slightly more involved.) Written almost as a script, Alten foregoes endless paragraphs of exposition by substituting minimalist narration and well-staged action sequences. As a result, you can almost see this on the big screen as you're reading it. It's not a long read, but it is a fun one!