Decipher

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Summary: Great Historical / Science Fiction Book!
Review: This was a great book for me to read. Great plot, characters, and science (real / unreal). Because this book contains a lot of references to religion, science, and cultures around the world, the book was a little too slow paced for my liking. But excellent reading none the less! Although this book was not as fast paced as I would like, I would recommend this book to all of my friends!

Rating:
Summary: Decipher
Review: What an incredible read, a real page turner! Please dont start reading this book unless you know you have lots of time on your hands! Because you just won't want to put it down! This fantastic novel weaves so many different themes into a tightly woven story, that you will find it incredibly hard not to beleive a lot of the controversial themes that flow through it's pages. Any lover of science, religion, history, astronomy or language will be amazed at this incredibly well researched and brilliantly written story. As far as sci-fi books go, this one is quite sophisticted and intense in it's theories, that it will satisfy any reader. (Look out for this novel being made into a film - it's a great contender)

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Summary: Now hear this! Linguist saves the world
Review: What do you get when you cook a brew that contains the Bible, Atlantis, contemporary physics, the pyramids, and chaos theory? The answer is Decipher. Hang onto your hats, because this apocalyptic thriller includes just about every element of cult and bone fide science imaginable. In fact, this is the only novel in my memory that has its own reference list, a long one at that. Here's the drift: solar flares are getting more intense, apparently leading up to some great catastrophe that will destroy the earth. Under the antarctic ice the city of Atlantis is found, made of a harder-than-diamond material called Carbon-60. Embedded into its molecular structure, we are told, is the the secret to save the world from impending disaster, if only we can read the code. Throw in the Book of the Dead, Isaiah, Leibnitz, Euler, the Peoples Republic of China, and an army of nanobot golems, and you have a bottom of the world thriller that is if nothing else a good read. That the plot is contrived and more than a little unbelievable is not in question. Nor is it that the ending is a little derivative (see the first Star Trek movie for a preview). It is still pretty gripping. More from the author would be apprecaited. Perhaps the jacket of his next book will tell us if a bachelor's degree in physics is prerequisite for the course.

Rating:
Summary: Awful
Review: Wooden dialog. Two dimensional, trite characters. There seemed to be a plot developing, but, by page 87, I couldn't stand it any more.

Rating:
Summary: Awesome!
Review: Wow, what a great book! The ending in particular was breath taking. It never let up for a second. Loved all the mythology and the exploration of human history as the adventure unfolded. But the action was dazzling. I could really SEE what was going on. Nice characters too. Very funny and more depth than this genre usually allows. Excellent.

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Summary: A book for toillet-reading
Review: You will like this book if:
- You're in the business of movie script reading
- Shallow characters are a good thing! (TM)
- Being introduced to irrelevant characters (Full name included!) that will live in the book for 4 lines.
- ...

Having this book for toillet-reading is the best use I can think of for it (maybe I'm being to benign though).