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Summary: Atlantis Found
Review: As usual Dirk Pitt and his friends save the country, but it is his adventures that make the story. Dirk Pitt may be bigger than life, however he is the man dreams are made of. Life and messages of other characters are not what to look for in reading unless it is history. Dirk Pitt takes the mind away and along with him on his adventures. The stories are plausable and take a true or unproven source and it becomes reality. Atlantis has always been a mystery and whether it is true or not has never been proved. Dirk's discovery of the lost continent seems almost real. Mr. Cussler's habit of putting himself as a character in the book makes the story more believable. To escape the problems of the world around us I find Dirk is the best person to be with.
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Summary: Another thrilling adventure for Dirk and Clive
Review: As all of Clive Cusslers books, I am only disappointed when they end. I read so quickly through them that I then regret reading them so fast. This one had a suspenseful plot and different kind of adventures for several members of NUMA not just Dirk. Great read, do not do like I did though, don't read it too fast, because it makes the wait for the next one even longer!
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Summary: Great
Review: Cussler delivers again. Dirk Pitt involved with the lost city of Atlantis is a natural undersea adventure, and I'm glad Cussler is utilizing this bit of history. It's a real page-turner, the best thriller since Craig Furnas' THE SHAPE. Incidentally, I saw Clive Cussler himself just last night at a book signing, and the line for him was very long. Cussler looked great, all dressed in black.
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Summary: The result of Mixing Indiana Jones, James Bond, and others.
Review: Mr. Cussler's books are great escapist fiction. His newest, "Atlantis Found", I believe is one of the better tales he has told. The other enjoyment that comes with a Cussler novel is watching the professional critics try to trash his work. They don't get it, but as these novels routinely make the best-seller lists, we the readers do. The critics do get it, but they prefer books that get the literary equivalent of an Academy Award, while Mr. Cussler takes home The People's Choice Award."Atlantis Found" is way over the top, fantastic in what is spread on its' 534 pages, and most importantly fun, and a great read. Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino are a combination of, Indiana Jones, James Bond, The Saint, the members of the old and new Mission Impossible teams, and a dash of The Duke John Wayne leading the cavalry. Sure the book has its cliché's, but does not every Bond film as well? Mr. Cussler gives his readers what they enjoy, and what may be one person's cliché, is another's cue that he or she is about to embark on an adventure with old friends. If you read Mr. Cussler you have probably read well into this latest work, and if you are not yet amongst his readers, "Atlantis Found", is a good place to start.
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Summary: Grand Adventure told with style...
Review: The few reviews I've read of this are all WAY OFF! Obviously the so-called 'professional' reviewers have little idea of what constitutes a 'good' book written by the 'Grand Master of Adventure'. If you are a fan of Clive Cussler, GET THIS BOOK. Is it a dramatic departure from the writing style he has done in the past? Nope. In fact his style seems exactly the same, but like a fine Bond movie, we keep coming back for more to see what kinds of adventures Dirk and Company can get into next--and still escape from-- while managing to save the world at the same time. My hats off to Clive for a great tale told in fine form. If you fancy yourself a pure Pitt fan, don't deny your addiction...give IN and BUY THIS BOOK. By the end you will have staved off the nights of obsession just trying to wait until the paperback edition, and whetted your appetite for more, and you just might re- read some older Pitt adventures, just for fun. Reading the stories of Dirk Pitt is like re-joining a dream you awoke from that you didn't want to. Enjoy and thank me later.
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Summary: The Style Is Still There, But The Originality Isn't
Review: I first became a fan of Clive Cussler's novels at twenty years ago when my interest in the Titanic led to my reading his classic "Raise The Titanic", which was a magnificent novel and led to a fascination with the author's books ever since. However, since Cussler's golden age of Pitt novels, which to me encompasses "Raise The Titanic" through "Cyclops" I really think the novels have lost a bit of their magic since then because ever since "Dragon", Cussler has fallen into an annoying habit of basically writing the same story with variations on the setting, stakes etc. "Atlantis Found" is no exception to this because once again, the villain(s) is some major businessman and his/her family who have been plotting their treachery for so long. Strike one because this is once again very unmemorable for me. Then, strike two in that the opening prologue set-up once again has very little to do with the actual storyline in the final analysis and serves more as window dressing. This is a far cry from "Raise The Titanic", "Vixen 03" and "Night Probe" when the set-up tied into the story and the payoff in a major way. Instead, the story of the neo-Nazis trying to build their "Fourth Empire" is something served up to us out of the blue, along with a subplot about Nazi "sacred relics" that is given to us by a convenient duex ex machina character (a retired Nazi admiral) who is there to dispense his info and then disappears completely. I also regret to see that Cussler no longer acknowledges his previous Pitt stories in a new novel simply because real history caught up with the events of the Golden Age of Pitt. As late as "Cyclops" it was still not uncommon to see a reference to Pitt having raised the Titanic, or to the aftereffects of the North Atlantic Treaty of "Night Probe." Today, we're lucky if we see one oblique reference to the last Pitt novel and only when Cussler describes the train in Pitt's collection of cars is there a faint echo of "Night Probe." (Yet oddly enough Cussler still refers to Pitt and Giordino as having served in Vietnam, yet he doesn't seem to realize that would have to make them in their mid to late 50s at least by this point!) The end result is that Pitt has become much too formulaic for my tastes. The Cussler style of describing interesting locales and making the storyline interesting is still there, but I fear the Golden Age of Pitt has passed us by now (and Clive, will you please stop with those annoying cameos of yours! Enough!)
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Summary: Never a dull moment in a Cussler novel!
Review: Cussler fans will find his latest very like his previous novels. I'm more of a reader of historical fiction like "Cold Mountain" or "The Triumph and the Glory", but I always make it a point to read Cussler's books when they are published. They always entertain, they are never too deep, in brief, they are like a roller coaster ride, packed with thrills and adrenaline but not exactly profundly moving.
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Summary: A VERY GOOD BOOK
Review: This is not the sort of book I usually read, but I decided to give it a try for something different. I surprised myself when I liked it. Great read!If you want to another read a book that goes straight to your heart, read Stolen Moments by Barbara Jeanne Fisher. . .It is a beautiful story of unrequited love. . .for certain the love story of the nineties. I intended to give the book a quick read, but I got so caught up in the story that I couldn't put the book down. From the very beginning, I was fully caught up in the heart-wrenching account of Julie Hunter's battle with lupus and her growing love for Don Lipton. This love, in the face of Julie's impending death, makes for a story that covers the range of human emotions. The touches of humor are great, too, they add some nice contrast and lighten things a bit when emotions are running high. I've never read a book more deserving of being published. It has rare depth. Julie's story will remind your readers that life and love are precious and not to be taken for granted. It has had an impact on me, and for that I'm grateful. Stolen Moments is written with so much sensitivity that it made me want to cry. It is a spellbinder. What terrific writing. Barbara does have an exceptional gift! This book was edited by Lupus specialist Dr. Matt Morrow too, and has the latest information on that disease. ..A perfect gift for someone who started college late in life, fell in love too late in life, is living with any illness, or trying to understand a loved one who is. . .A gift to be cherished forever.
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Summary: One of the Grandmaster's Best!
Review: "Atlantis Found" is Clive Cussler's best work since the terrific "Sahara" came out in 1992. The plot is one of his best, the action is non-stop and there are also several pleasant surprises in the book that will make you smile when you're not rooting for the dynamic duo of Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino. I had enjoyed his most recent novels ("Flood Tide", "Shock Wave" and "Inca Gold") but they didn't grab me like his previous novels. But "Atlantis Found" leaves no doubt that the "Grandmaster of Adventure" hasn't lost his touch at the keyboard. A rip-roaring read!
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Summary: could use working on
Review: it was wonderful though it could have been better. it had great details etc. but the only problem was that there were too many boring parts with detail to the point it was almost similar to clancy
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