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Summary: Forget Deep Impact and Armageddon
Review: When I read this book all I could think was I want more. I wanted to see it in movie form and see the characters three dimensional. My family pased it around so often it self destructed.a great vacation book since you don't want to put it down.
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Summary: Mistake
Review: Please disreagard my second review of "Lucifer's Hammer." I thought my first hadn't been published.
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Summary: No thanks
Review: This book can basically be divided into three parts. Number 1: The comet is coming! The comet is coming! Maybe it will miss! Number 2: Comet hits. This is where the book picks up slightly, but then...Number 3: Civilization is destroyed, black people are made to sound evil. I found this book boring for two-thirds, and pretty unbelievable in many areas (It's the end of the world, hurrah! No more taxes! Also 'We have to rebuild society, but let's talk about this fine piece of CRYSTAL first.') Try for a better Doomsday novel.
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Summary: Starts slow, but delivers the ideas of survival
Review: For those of us who have not experienced total chaos from disaster, this is a must read. In 1999, we are faced with any number of possible scenarios which could put us in global unrest; this is a book that allows us to grasp the possible situations that could arise: physical, moral, and psychological. If you think, as I do, that a total breakdown in society as we know it can happen, READ THIS.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: A great book, it ranks right up there with The Stand and Alas Babylo
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Summary: This is better than King (the Stand) & McGammon (Swan)
Review: Lucifer's Hammer has been compared to "The Stand" and I compare it somewhat with Robert McGammon's "Swan". I say "somewhat" as Lucifer's Hammer hasn't the Bibical conotations as the "The Stand" and "Swan". The beginning is a little slow, but good things should be taken from the start and slowly build up to the pre-splash down. The "Stronghold" is a possibility. While on vacation a few years ago we detoured through the mountains and flats of California near Portersville-great! My wife and I have read -Hammer at least six times and it gets better every time. The life situations that are presented are real-Armies of refugees, Scout camp, helping and fighting, even the mailman was as real as you are. On par with "Earth Abides" if not surpassing that great story.
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Summary: Great Trash
Review: This is the kind of unpretentious trash I love! Fun and diverting, it is swell story telling after a hard day. I really enjoyed the surfer's ride on the monsterous tidal wave through the skyscrapers of downtown L.A. How Southern Cal! The apocalypse can be a hoot if you are young enough to enjoy!
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Summary: Tedious
Review: I found this to be a tedious read with shallow cardboard characters. Definitely not on par with Niven's other works (Tales of Known Space series.) If you want an entertaining and thought-provoking post-apocalyptic novel, try Alas Babylon.
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Summary: A wild ride, Niven and Pournelle are the Best!
Review: I read this book probably 10 years ago and it is still fresh in my mind as a book to suggest for others who like a little adventure in their reading. An idea not as far fetched as some would like to believe, it reminds you just how fragile our lives are on this little rock floating around a sun out in space with so much whirling debris. Niven and Pournelle provide us with another thrilling read into dangerous possibilities and how humanity is most likely going to react to it. Strikingly real in its characterizations.
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Summary: Superb
Review: This is a superb novel about a comet striking the earth, thereby destroying modern civilization. The physical as well as the psychological events surrounding the impact of the comet seem well-researched and accurate. This only adds to the drama of the story and the awe the reader feels as events unfold. There are a few too many characters, and parts of the ending seem contrived, but this is a must-read for science fiction lovers.
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