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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I am a 13 year old girl from Oregon and I am just over halfway done with this book, it's great! When I read books they have to be able to intrige me, and they have to paint an image in my head as I read, and this book, out of the many books I've read, does this. I have only read a few books that actually kept me wanting more, and this book, well I can't put it down. I have been reading it when I have spare time in class, and I keep it at school. I've only been reading it for 4 days and already I am on page 230! I hope that it will have a good ending, but I don't have any doubt. I recomend this book to everyone!!
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Summary: Bury It!
Review: Merciful Zeus! Let no innocent excavate Excavation! Bury the path to its covers for eternity with flaming lava spouted from Mount Olympus! Cast this book into the deepest fathoms beneath the mighty Kraken's lair! Seal it forever in grim Hades' darkest vault! Or mercifully blind the good populace of Athens like King Oedipus, that their eyes may never accidentally transgress all that is holy and fall upon these pages, ever after to be haunted by the foul Furies that plague the House of Agamemnon!Or at least warn them, Zeus, warn them that this book is a nine-year-old's crayon novelization of the Richard Chamberlain movie version of King Solomon's Mines! Please, Zeus, please! I beg you, on my knees! Never mind, Zeus. I'll do it for you. Seriously, this book is so badly researched and inconsistent, it makes Marvel comic books read like Classics Illustrated. Even a lower-I.Q. junior high school student wouldn't believe any of it. Save your money.
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Summary: EVOLUTION 101
Review: THIS IS THE SECOND BOOK I'VE READ BY ROLLINS, AND HE SEEMS TO WRITE THE SAME BOOK OVER, AND OVER AGAIN, IN DIFFERENT SETTINGS.
I READ HIS NEWEST BOOK AMAZONIA BEFORE READING THIS ONE, AND I FIND THE PLOTS TO BE VERY SIMILAR. HIS INTEREST IN WRITING NOVELS IS ONLY A MEDIA TO PREACH HIS RELIGION OF EVOLUTION. (WHICH I DON'T ADHERE TO!) THIS BOOK HAS A BIT TOO MUCH ROMANCE INTEREST FOR MY TASTE, TO THE EXCLUSION OF ACTION SCENES THIS BOOK REALLY NEEDS TO BE TRULY INTERESTING(FOR MY TASTES.) OTHER READERS HAVE COMPARED HIS BOOKS TO AN INDIANA JONES MOVIE - NOT QUITE! TRY INSTEAD MATHEW REILY'S "TEMPLE" IF YOU REALLY WANT AN ARCHEOLOGICAL STORY THAT "ROCKS".
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Summary: Excellent Read
Review: Excavation was the first book that I had read which was written by James Rollins. The book was excellent the first time I read it, but the second time it just wasn't as good. His first book, Subterranean was was a better book, and worth reading again.
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Summary: Silly as Silly can be
Review: Yes, I read this book so I'm to blame, it was so far fetched and unbelievable, I was somewhat embarrassed while reading it, so if anyone asked me if I read any good books lately? I usually kept this one to myself.
Two things I didn't like were the Space Gold, and 3 tiers of existence. If you read the book you'll know what I talking about. TOO SILLY for me.
However if you're only into brain candy books this is the one for you. It has Non-stop action, funny dialogue and interesting characters make this fun "for kids." This could make a good cartoon movie. Sorry it doesn't have that Preston and Child quality I was expecting.
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Summary: Put this in your shoping cart now!
Review: This is the first book that I have read by James and it will not be the last. I could not set it down. Very intriging concept. I am usually one to be discouraged by long chapters, This book only has 7 chapters all about 80 pages, but I could not stop reading it. It just kept going and going and getting better and better. I can't wait for my next Amazon order to get the other two books. If you are reading this order this book.
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Summary: Indiana Jones Meets Andromeda Strain
Review: "Excavation" starts out on an archeological dig in the Peruvian Andes. We get underground tunnels and a sealed door, cave-ins, would-be tomb robbers, mummified bodies, and ancient booby-traps. All fast-paced, entertaining and fairly plausible. From there on, this tale becomes increasingly fantastic until it all gets a bit hard to swallow. If you can suspend your disbelief enough to accept the last quarter of the book, though, it continues to be fast-paced and entertaining. Until the last half-dozen pages or so. At that point Rollins gets downright maudlin in his efforts to wrap up the romantic entanglements. Then comes the epilogue, which wraps up some loose ends with and definitely scifi explanation and leaves lots of room for sequels. As I said, "Excavation" gets pretty fantastic before its over, but I suppose it's no more difficult to accept that most scifi I've read. It was fun and the action never let up. Its all very shallow, there are no deep concepts being explored here, but scifi fans and those who enjoy the kind of techno-thrillers by writers like Crichton (although it isn't quite as polished as Crichton's work) will like this book, as well.
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Summary: Great...
Review: Great read. Fun, fast, and exciting. Interesting too. I really enjoyed this book and soon bought more by same author. Nice writing style, really keeps you entertained.
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Summary: Rip-snorting Pulp Adventure
Review: Rollins has an utter lack of pretense or literary aspirations, but he surely can write a pulp-style adventure yarn. This Indiana Jones/Doc Savage type romp has everything but the kitchen sink. Subterranean was a bit restrained and a hair more conventional, but this time Rollins gives us gold, murderous mutants, an Incan temple, ancient alien astronauts, psychic powers, and the Spanish Inquisition (and who expects that!). It's all neat, and consistent and barrels forward with plenty of energy. A great read for sheer ham-fisted fun.
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Summary: Rollins keeps on rolling
Review: Rollins has a thing for alternative realities (a long lost Andean society for example). ANother good book from him, tho. I like his work and will continue to buy his books.
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