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Summary: The end of the world as we know it!
Review: No one, save a very few, takes paleoclimatologist (the study of past climate trends) Jack Hall's worries about the melting polar ice disrupting the North Atlantic current and causing a massive superstorm very seriously. Then the current disappears and the weater goes mad. Now they listen, but it's too late to avoid a new ice age and the people in the North are doomed to a certain death by freezing. That certainty does not stop Jack Hall from setting out to rescue is son, who is trapped in the frozen wasteland that was once New York City.Whitley Strieber, who co-wrote (with radio personality Art Bell) The Coming Global Superstorm (the book that writer/director Roland Emmerich admits 'inspired' his epic disaster movie), does an excellent job of fleshing out the obviously action heavy script. The result is a quick rollercoaster ride of a book. Fans of Strieber, Bell, or Irwin Allen reincarnate Roland Emmerich's movie will want this in their collection. Recommended.
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Summary: Hits close to home,
Review: Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall knows it's going to happen. From his decidedly long-range viewpoint, it happens all the time. What he doesn't realize, as he urges his bosses at NOAA to take his prediction seriously, is that the crisis caused by changing ocean currents isn't somewhere decades (or even, hopefully, a few centuries) down the road. It's starting to happen now. And once begun, it will happen with horrifying speed. Sam Hall, seventeen years old and so brilliant that he's often in trouble with intimidated teachers, leaves for an academic competition in New York City just as the storm that will usher in a new ice age begins. This isn't the sort of thing Sam normally does, but spending time with team mate Laura is more than enough inducement. Sam's mother and Jack's ex-wife, Lucy, has a long shift to work as part of her medical residency, back home in Virginia. So as the storm strikes, and as Jack realizes that it's his nightmare coming true, his son becomes trapped in the northern danger zone; while the woman he still loves must choose between evacuation to Mexico and safety, or continuing to do her duty as a doctor. This is a taut thriller with a human heart, and it's much better written than most novelizations of popular films. "Weather Channel Storm Stories" junkies should love it, although any reader who thinks about current events will also find it disturbing. It hits close to home.
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Summary: Please, not another "damn" word out of you, Mr. Strieber
Review: Skip the "book", see the movie. I say this with confidence without having actually seen the movie. The writing is horrible, and I am convinced that Mr. Strieber is either lazy, an absolute idiot, or most likely both. To be fair, this book does have some fine moments, however they are eclipsed by the akward and relentless usage of the expletive "damn." I found myself continually gritting my teeth and rolling my eyes while I read such memorable gems as the following: Pg. 9: "Damn" count: 4 "...and Aaron was damned concerned."
"...loud enough to actually drown out the damn storm."
"How bad can it be if the damn tv still works?"
"And then something else, which was--damn, ripping?"
--my favorite one on the whole page Pg. 10: "Now he was feeling damn sick about it, oh yes."
"Then he saw a piece of the window, then a whole damn couch." Pg. 11: "...Zack was tying his damn board to the roof track."
"...the house above them groaned and actually damn well lifted and blew right into the darkness and spray." Pg. 12:
"Sam got a damn glass of water from the kitchen..."
--my personal favorite You get the point. Over and over and over again he uses "damn" in the most unnecessary and sometimes head-sratching ways. At one point, he uses the phrase "damn well" three times in a single paragraph! Horrible. Absolutely unacceptable and infintely distracting to what could've been a decent adaptation. And oh, by the way, relax. Such climate changes as depicted in the story happen over a slightly longer period than a week or two. Actually, like, a damn well disappointing effort, Mr. Strieber. Don't buy this "book." I like, actually, damn well want my money back.
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Summary: For a novelization of a disaster movie...
Review: The author does a pretty good job. I wasn't that interested in the movie before reading the book, but now I look forward to seeing it. The book provides background information that probably won't be in the movie. It's not classic literature, but it's a good read, nonetheless.
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Summary: Much better than I expected
Review: The day after tomorrow is one of the worst movie in decades!
There is nothing making any sense in this crap movie! Don't
waste money on the movie or book. It makes you crazy on the
stupid pseudo-scientific heresy.
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Summary: Not his best...
Review: The writing isn't Whitley Strieber's best. The book is often confusing and there are scenes that don't make a lot of sense. Sorry. I was surprised since I've liked Streiber's books. It looks like he was really pressed for time and had to churn it out pretty fast. (And I'm sure that's not an uncommon thing when it comes to anything associated with Hollywood.) The thing is, the movie's s/f are spectacular but it's a really thin (and sort of dangerous) premise. I would have loved this as a pure adventure film, but couching it as something that could actually happen (making it political, in other words) really turned me off. And that's what the filmmakers did in the marketing. As Penn and Teller say on their award-winning Bull***T show, if what you're really fighting is corporate America, then fight corporate America. Don't pretend you're pushing an environmental agenda when what you're really doing is giving the public bad science to convince them of a political point of view. Did y'all know the founder of Greenpeace quit Greenpeace because it turned into an anti-capitalist political organization instead of an environmental one!??? Like I said, Penn and Teller exposed them. And it's very scary. When you try to peddle bad science on a gullible public to push a political agenda, you end up setting up people to make really bad decisions--because it's based on bad science. And setting people up for bad decision-making where the world's future is concerned is dangerous and (sorry) pretty vile.
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Summary: georgie228 should check facts
Review: This book was written and issued as a hardcover five years ago titled: The Coming Global Superstorm; it IS NOT based on the movie. People who do not do even the most basic research before writing reviews probably are also prone to believe in global warming. See Patrick Michaels article in the May 16, 2004 Washington Post.
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Summary: Great Read
Review: Whitley Strieber is a great writer. This book is fantastic read. I wish he would concentrate on more of this type of fiction. His and Art Bell's "The Coming Global Superstorm" is also excellent.
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Summary: Great Read
Review: Whitley Strieber is a great writer. This book is fantastic read. I wish he would concentrate on more of this type of fiction. His and Art Bell's "The Coming Global Superstorm" is also excellent.
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Summary: Simply dreadful drivel
Review: Whitney Streiber, one of the chief instruments in dumbing down America, has outdone himself here. Streiber has no knowledge of physics or other sciences, but cares not a whit. In this extremely poorly written (lack of) effort, Streiber purports to describe a climatic calamity on the order of the recently lamented movie. It is amateurishly written, marked by no real single plot, and absolutely worthless as either literature or science. But people will probably buy it and buy into it, while books by real scientists, such as Richard B Alley, gather dust on bookstore shelves. Barnum was right. I weep for the future.
I wouldn't even rate this book in terms of stars unless negative values could be used. Don't bother.
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