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Summary: Even This Jaded Book Reader Couldn't Put This One Down!
Review: I've been looking for a page-turner for a long time. If you have read so many books that they all seem to blur together, this one will be a wonderful surprise.The past several books I have started this year are collecting dust after reading 2 or 3 chapters. Riptide, however, lasted only a weekend. If you are sick of the same old stories and are looking for one that is both imaginative and well written (with the bonus of a take-off of the Oak Island mystery), you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: TERRIFIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: If reading good adventure novels is what you like, then you have come to the right place. This is without a doubt one of the best stories I have ever read. It is not a deep "make you think novel," but Brain candy to the Nth degree. I loved the mystery and the adventure of the island setting, here we have booby traps, scuba diving, and treasure hunting.
In a nutshell, a vast treasure was buried over 3 hundred years ago by a famous rogue pirate, but because of an ingenious architect, the ability to dig for the treasure was virtually impossible.
Until we come to the 1990's. A modern treasure hunter, and his crew are after the treasure, and this time they are determined to get it at any cost, even if lives are at stake. Thats all I'll tell, but I promise you will not be disappointed.
These two guys are some of the best writers around, keep the books coming.
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Summary: Fun...Just Fun
Review: The only way to describe Riptide is fun - no deep meaning, no literary significance. Just fun. Preston and Child team up to deliver an action-packed, entertaining tale of lost treasure and greed. Unlike many adventure novelists, Preston and Child create fully realized characters and intricate plot lines. Many novelists in this genre (Crichton, Cussler) have been writing for years but haven't come up with anything as well written and entertaining as Riptide.
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Summary: These guys make a GREAT team~
Review: I've been interested in Oak Island for many years now, and this story is obviously based loosley on the Oak Island legends. The detail was incredible. I felt like I was on the island, and I wanted that treasure! I was so involved, I felt like I could reach out and touch it. If you're interested in things like the Bermuda Triangle, Loch Ness, and Easter Island, you'll love this book. This is honestly one of the best books I've ever read. Bravo Mr. Preston and Mr. Child!!!
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Summary: Enjoyable tale of modern day treasure hunting
Review: The only real downside to this enjoyable adventure yarn is one typical of many contemporary popular novels --at over 500 pages it is a tad too long.Leaving this minor caveat aside I enjoyed it enormously
The novel is the story of a hunt for the treasure of seventeenth-century privateer Red Ned Ockham The scourge of the Caribbean in his day he had amassed a substantial fortune ,mostly plundered from Spanish vessels,and the treaure included the fabled and mysterious St Michael's Sword.The treasure is interred in caverns on Ragged Island,hard by the Maine coast where it lies protected by an intricate labyrinth,devised by Ockham's captive the architect,crypotographer and spy MacAllan. Several attempts to unearth the hoard having come to nought the novel centres on the attempt of a specialist treasure hunting company ,Thalassa,headed by the intense Captain Neidermann to retrieve the 2 billion dollar booty.He is aided by a team of specialists in their fields(fustain English academic,tetchy computer freak,beautiful archaelogists etc)and by Malin Hatch the hero whose brother had perished in the treasure caves some decades earlier
All is not plain sailing.The local minister actively opposes the venture,claiming the treaure is cursed,the mission is plagued by accidents and computer malfunction,and riven by internal tensions within the team which ultimately erupt into violence At the heart of the tension is the mysterious sword which turns out to harbour a deadly secret. Characterisation is good,the build up of tension adroit and the climax powerful I just feel that some minor excisions and the concomittant shortening of the book would have made it an even better read but I can think of many worse ways to while away a journet or a rainy evening.
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Summary: Quick Read; Hard To Put Down
Review: This was a very good read about modern day treasure hunting. It had a computer programmer in it and the terminology of technology was pretty acurate. Decent characterization and a lot of action. I would recommend this.
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Summary: For real adventure, read this.
Review: Both Preston and Child blow me away with both the use of science and the fast-paced and exciting plotting in this book. Perhaps my favorite of all of their books, Riptide is definately an outstanding read, and well-written to boot.
I, like another reviewer who previously exhalted the book, cannot wait for the movie!
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Summary: Can't wait for the movie
Review: I just finished reading this for the second time and it was just as spectacular. The plot, characters and pace are terrific. I seriously hope they make this one into a movie soon. I've read all Preston's and Child's collective and individual work. This is still my favorite. Can't wait for their new one in 2002.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: Riptide is the best audiobook that I have listened to so far. It's the first Catherine Coulter book I've had the pleasure to enjoy, but I'll be on the look out for more. It has so many things, suspense, grief, love, travel to several places and a mudering pyscho. They say we pay for the sins of our father. That is what this psycho is tyring to make the heroine do, pay for her fathers sins that were actually a accident. Jason Culp is the reader and he does an excellent job. Reading it yourself or listening to it, Riptide is well worth the chance. I'm waiting on the book to come in now. I miss Riptide already.
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Summary: Have you heard of the Oak Island "Money Pit" treasure?
Review: Child and Preston have taken the real life story of Oak Island and brought to life a white knuckle treasure hunting adventure. While this book was a little too predictable in places for me to give it 5 stars, it definitely held my attention throughout. The constant slow-feed of tidbits of the treasure's history and the wrath of the dread pirate as it related to the dig really kept the story going. A step below Relic but still a great read.
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