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Summary: great for killing time and not much else
Review: This was my first foray into the Dirk Pitt series - the result of a well-intentioned gift from a peer - and it will likely be my last. The best thing I can say is the book goes pretty quickly. The plot is mildly compelling in that B-movie/Saturday-serial sort of way, but Cussler appears to have an eigth-grader's grasp of plot development, dialogue, and the English language. The writing was so laughably bad in parts that I found myself reading entire passages aloud to friends and family, compelled to press on to the end for the certainty that there was worse (and therefore more entertaining) writing just ahead. How much worse could it get?! Plenty.Character development for Dirk Pitt largely consists of his recitation of print ads from Robb Report to prove he's an agent of dicriminating taste. There's enough product placement that I expected an order form in the back and a NASCAR-style book cover patched over with ads. Throughout the novel, Cussler's over-simplified and cliched characterizations are enough to make a WWF writer blush. Having read this book, Michael Crichton now seems like a genius. Needless to say, Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay must be chomping at the bit to make this clunker their next trashy summer blockbuster for the masses.
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Summary: hilariously outrageous page-turner
Review: Clive Cussler has done it again. Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino save the world yet again, this time from the diabolical plans of a German Nazi family. Even though the plots of the books are getting more and more out of the ordinary, the action-packed books of the NUMA-series are still a pleasure to read if you are looking for a typical thriller to help you through your holidays. Superhero and renowned macho Dirk and his witty friend Al never have a dull moment in their lives...
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Summary: Dragged kicking and screaming to Atlantis
Review: Why did I finish this book? It took sheer willpower and a niggling hope that a great plot twist would make it all worthwhile. Tedious and unnecessary descriptions were thrown into the mix. For example, Dirk would be scrambling over a mountainside with vast hordes in pursuit and Cussler would pause to describe, in excruciating detail, the shirt and pants being worn by our hero. Well, it wasn't as strange as all that, but it seemed that many paragraphs were throwaways and did little to move the story along. What was the deal with the gourmet meal of rabbit and sweetbreads situated in the midst of all the mayhem? It sure brought everything to a screaching halt. I think "Dad" should learn to write more better.
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Summary: Atlantis Found - The best yet!!
Review: I'm a new Dirk Pitt fan and so far I love it!!I've read Inca Gold and Cyclops. In Atlantis Found Dirk takes us to the South Pole and the reign of the New Dynasty. The book starts us of in the discovery of an old ship carrying artifacts from an ancient civilization that existed nine thousand years ago. From there Atlantis Found takes you on a rollercoaster ride from the depths of a mine in Colorado to the cold depths of the South Pole. Clive Cussler even has a cameo in his own book. Not to give anything away, but readers look for a character referred to as "Dad"!! With Dirk and Al Giordino's quick wit the book is fabulous. The best yet!!
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Summary: The Most Ambitious Dirk Pitt Yet!
Review: I was introduced to Dirk Pitt by reading Inca Gold and have enjoyed that one more than his earlier work. Atlantis Found has a great prologue and a plot that is rapid during the first half of the book and still quite stimulating during the second half. But even with a long book, Cussler has kept the "fun" in Pitt. At a time in life that many adventure authors slow down, I feel (i.e. Clancy's The Bear and The Dragon), Cussler has written his best novel yet!
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Summary: Pitt Saves Humanity--Again
Review: As a mystery writer with my first novel in its initial release, I am a great admirer of Clive Cussler's success. When critics comment that my protagonist is almost too good to be true, I think of Cussler's Dirk Pitt. Pitt is a globe-trotting, brilliant, daring, courageous adventurer who annually manages to save the world. In this most recent Dirk Pitt--the sixteenth, I believe--he is taking on an amoral outfit that calls itself The Fourth Empire. Pitt enlists a beautiful expert in ancient languages to assist him in his battle with evil, and the action never stops to catch its breath. ATLANTIS FOUND is exactly what Cussler's fans have grown to expect from his books. Cussler does what he does better than anyone else, and I recommend ATLANTIS FOUND highly.
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Summary: Atlantis Found
Review: This book starts off slow. It soon escalates into a super thriller. Dirk Pitt is an adventurous fellow.
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Summary: Worst book I have read - ever.
Review: This book was a great disappointment. The story line is completely rediculous. I only finished reading it, because I wanted to know if it would get any better, but alas it didn't. I use this book as an example for a bad book, if somebody asks me. plot - I guess Dirk is a superhero, he dodges every attack story line - can it get any more stereotyped? Never Clive for me again.
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Summary: Couldnt Put the Book Down!
Review: Well I ordered this book on a whim....I thought it was really going to be blah. However, as soon as I started reading the book I COULDNT PUT IT DOWN! I was so into the book that I finished it in one night...it was so good...
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Summary: Guaranteed to delight...
Review: Since 1979, I have eagerly awaited every new Clive Cussler book... I give credit to Cussler and to Pitt for instilling in me the desire to be a researcher and academic, to search out the answers to everyday mysteries....I read Atlantis Found over a 24-hour period last summer after I finished my Master's thesis.... Dirk Pitt. Okay, so he's getting up there in age. The character is in his late 40's (I checked some sources, birthdate is 1952) but Cussler never fails to give us the one-two-three punch. I read the excerpt of Atlantis in Dirk Pitt Revealed and couldn't wait. Cussler masterful prose at creating the scene of the birth and death of the mythical island is spellbinding. Putting scenes and action aside, I feel that this is the best character development novel for Cussler and Pitt to-date. He has set the stage for his next novel. I cried at the end of this novel because I could see it coming. I lanquish at reading the next for fear of what it might contain and yet, I'm itching to tell my parents to bring me a copy of it with them when they visit in September. For me Dirk Pitt is ageless and thank heavens he is a character on a piece of paper I can go back to time and time again. If anything, if this is your first visit to Clive Cussler's world, read this to tempt you back to his other books. And set you up for Vahalla Rising.
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