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Summary: Good Action
Review: This was the first book by this author that I have read and I may not be reading any more. A fried of mine suggested I read it. The book was enjoyable enough, lots of action and a very interesting location with good detail. I guess I was just looking for a little deeper type of book. This is one of those action books that does not take a lot of effort to read and keeps your attention all the way through. All and all an above average book.
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Summary: OOPPS
Review: This book is the first book that is 200 pages and more that I've read. Aren't you proud of me. One things for sure, I'm not reading Cusseler for a while. Before I used to read books like Clifford,Dr.Suess, and Barny books. They were actually pretty good. I'm 13 and in 8th grade.
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Summary: Inca Gold is a Treasure!
Review: I love stories that take me around the world to new and unusual locations, and to different periods of history. In this book, we begin with some mysterious strangers in 1532, on a journey along the coast of South America to hide their vast treasure from invaders. Then we move to 1578, when Sir Francis Drake captures Inca treasure, but a tidal wave washes it to shore where it settles deep into the jungle, hidden until the present time, when the treasure becomes the object of illegal dealers smuggling artifacts.Enter our hero, Dirk Pitt, who stumbles across the path of these dangerous criminals just after he has saved a group of archaeologists from drowning while diving into the dark depths of an ancient sacrificial pool. From there, the excitement never stops! In a contest with the smugglers, we plunge through the South American jungle, and journey north to American Indian territory in the southwest deserts of the United States. We get trapped underground, rushing through miles of a raging subterranean river, gasping for air with danger and death a constant threat! Dirk is challenged to bear up and hang on through incredible physical hardships. Realistically, no one could survive all these dangers and injuries, but miraculously, thanks to our ability to suspend belief, Dirk Pitt does, and we get to go on these wild adventures with him! As an intelligent adult it's almost embarrassing to rate this a 5, seeing that so many other adult reviewers consider this book to be material for juveniles! So, please forgive my enchantment with this book...it was a crazy ride, and a great interlude in my normal diet of historical fiction.
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Summary: pathetic
Review: Granted, I'm not into action books, but I am an anthroplogist/archaeologist. This is the most rediculous book! The beginning was good and very actuarate about Incas and archaeology (for example, the in situ speech about needing to find artifacts where they are originally located) but... I had to put the book away when a cia team of anthropologists entered the plot. Give me a break, people with PhDs being foreign spies. That's so laughable. Yes, I can just see my Yale-educated dowdy professor dashing off to Pakistan, Chad, or Peru to infultrate and destroy. Rolling on the floor here. This is the most pathetic book I've seen in a long time.
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Summary: Inca Gold
Review: Excellent beginning and excellent end, however, the middle drags on much too long, at least 75 pages could be shorthen.
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Summary: VG
Review: this was the first book by cc that i have read.
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if u like this, try books by Franklin W. Dixon (The late 50s to early 70s versions are <b>best</b>) i wood rekomehnd dis 2 a frend
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Summary: Clive for President !
Review: Every Clive Cussler book I read has had that thing that convinces me that it would be more then oustanding on the silver screen. Reading the book made me drift of, and picturing the adventure like a movie in front of me. You go Clive ! Cheer Donald
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Summary: Inca Gold
Review: Book is not bad. I want to make a small comment on the accuracy of the information. For the fun of using the metric syste, Mr. Cussler provides all linear and square measurements in metric units -that is meters, kilometers and so on. That is not bad from educational side. The problem is that Mr. Cussler simply multiplies all measures by the same factor even if he speaks about areas. 400 square kilometers are not equal to 250 sq. miles as he thinks (400/1.6 = 250) but 156.25 sq. miles. because if linear mile is 1.6 km, the square mile is 2.56 sq. kilometers......
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Summary: "Good, But Needed More Adventure"
Review: An international relic smuggling syndicate is the target for Dirk Pitt & Co. in this offering from Clive Cussler. Starts out very well with an incredible rescue and escape from a sacrifical pool in Peru. As soon as that's wrapped up, Pitt, old buddy Al Giordino and a group of researchers must fight for their lives against sadistic mercenary Tupac Amaru. Great fight scene. Unfortunately, the middle of the book tends to slow down. Not as much adventure that I've come to expect from Cussler. The battle on the ferry made up for it. So did the end in the underground river. That was classic Pitt in the impossible situation. The villians were OK, but nowhere near the classic bad guys from "Sahara."
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Summary: Not a Fan!
Review: This was my first book by this author, and it will be my last. I slogged about two thirds of the way through this book before I decided I had had enough. I agree with others who said it was very predictable. I did not like the characters or the plot. It was definitely not my style.
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