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Summary: Dear Dirk
Review: Dirk Pitt you are very annoying. I love James Bond, and i love Indiana Jones even more. But Dirk Pitt, you are neither. Your toys, interests and looks are overly cliched. I'm afraid you just bother me. This novel offered an interesting insight to this lost city, but it is hard to figure out what is fact and what is fiction. The story is quite outlandish. One thing i did appreciate about this novel was the answer to "why good guys' bullets hit, and bad guys' miss?" The answer...good guys aim.
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Summary: Ammens - Fact or Fiction?
Review: What a book! This is the first one by Cussler that I have read and enjoyed all but the last few chapters. The ending was a little outlandish but overall Very good.
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Summary: VERY disappointing
Review: Clive Cussler writes bestsellers. I'm not sure how!The storyline in Atlantis Found is far-fetched. Great - no problem there. The writer's job is to get the reader to suspend belief and, so far as ANY storyline is concerned, I can suspend belief when the writing allows me to (I love the Harry Potter books, for example). Unfortunately, Cussler's writing often falls well below standard, dropping at times into the abysmal. This is why I can't understand why his books are bestsellers. Throughout Atlantis Found, my enjoyment was spoilt by badly phrased sentences, poor grammar and, even worse, large chunks of explanation passed off as dialogue. If you read through some of the dialogues and try to imagine two people actually speaking, you'll see what I mean. And, as far as cliché goes, what about the old guy on the ice towards the end? "Hello, my name's Clive Cussler." That's a surefire way to draw the reader's attention away from the plot. It seems to me that Cussler has the ability to dream up good plots, but not the ability to write them down. Maybe he should employ a ghost writer.
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Summary: Anyone know an assassin for hire?
Review: Mr Cussler is starting to believe his own hype and has moved away from fast moving stories into self indulgence with tired and predictable characters. By the end of this, I am afraid I was with the bad guys and was hoping for Pitt's early death. Avoid.
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Summary: Here We Go Again! But Where's Atlantis?
Review: Clive Cussler returns to his real superhero Dirk Pitt in this story about ancient mysteries, Antarctica, Nazis, global crises and all that stuff he's known for. The plot starts rolling nicely, everything looks promising, but... But it gets disappointing towards the end. The worst thing is that the new megalomaniac is an exact copy of all the others. Come on, Clive! How about something new? Getting old, huh? What really baffled me as well was that actually Atlantis itself plays a VERY minor part in the story. Something like "We've found Atlantis! Great! Okay, whatever, let's go whack that bad guy!" I wasn't quite sure whether to give this book three stars or four before writing this review. But I decided that it should be three stars because even though it's better (much better) than Serpent, it's worse than Flood Tide.
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Summary: Wonderfully exciting!
Review: I just recently started reading the Dirk Pitt series, and I am thouroughly hooked. Mixing historical background, meticulous detail, and action has made Atlantis Found an enjoyable read. I could not put the book down!
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Summary: I have one to sell, too, signed even!
Review: I'm giving this 3 stars only because I respect Clive Cussler's other works which I've read and enjoyed more than Atlantis Found. The title and premise are captivating enough, sadly, it did not go further than that. I feel like he didn't quite live up to his potential on this one. I found the characters boring and predictable, the evil genius too stereotypical (and don't even get me started on the women)! I'm also getting tired of having "Clive Cussler" in the storyline. I don't normally part with my books but I don't mind letting this one go. Maybe next time we'll see the Dirk Pitt of old. I really miss him!
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Summary: same old, same old
Review: I read Cussler a lot. THis is the same old formula used for the 15th time. The formula goes like this: an ancient event that will have consequences in the future, undetroyable Pitt appearing by page forty or fifty ( in mass market paperback ). Then the rest of his pals ( GIordino, Rudi Gunn 0 appearing subsequently, an enemy as bad as Satan himself, the old romance with congresswomen Loren Smith, admiral James SAndecker, etc, etc. COnclusion: it's good.
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Summary: Interesting theory, but really !
Review: this novel caught my eye due to the inspiring title including the word 'Atlantis' and hence i thought that the book might be of some good thing substance. yet it was not, although the underlying theory was interesting and provide some mild contenment for somebody interested in the subject. it was in a way very similar to previous factual books by the likes of George Hancock and Charles Hapgood discussing the possibilty of Atlantis being discovered under Antartica. the incredulous character of Dirk Pitt does nothing more for the book than the manner in which it was written. an involving plot seemed to be the only bonus from the novel that was ultimately a James Bond story told in a slightly more interlectual way.
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Summary: Pretty bad
Review: Well, not even pretty. It starts off with an interesting angle, but thereafter goes rapidly downhill and the ability to suspend disbelief disappears completely after about the half-way mark. However, I bravely stuck it out to the end, and it just became steadily more ludicrous, the characters more and more cardboard cutouts, the successful adventures against hopeless odds ever more absurd. The paperback cost me SFr10 (about $US6) where it was being sold off presumably in an attempt to move it. I paid too much.
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