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The Morpheus Factor (Stargate SG-1, Book 4)

The Morpheus Factor (Stargate SG-1, Book 4)

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Lives up to its title...
Review: ... it totally put me to sleep! I literally felt myself dozing off only a few chapters into the novel, it was so incredibly boring. The plot was just so ludicrious that I didn't connect with the story at all.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A bitter disappoinment
Review: Devoted viewers of Stargate SG-1 will be dismayed by the rampant factual errors and wonder if the author has even once watched the show. Casual readers will be horrified by the lack of a plot. Readers new to the fandom will hope that the show isn't THIS bad. All will be pleased to know that (supposably) McConnell's contract to write these books has been cancelled (which might help explain the total lack of an ending)?

You can find infinitely better stories about these characters written by fans, on the internet, for FREE.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A bitter disappoinment
Review: Devoted viewers of Stargate SG-1 will be dismayed by the rampant factual errors and wonder if the author has even once watched the show. Casual readers will be horrified by the lack of a plot. Readers new to the fandom will hope that the show isn't THIS bad. All will be pleased to know that (supposably) McConnell's contract to write these books has been cancelled (which might help explain the total lack of an ending)?

You can find infinitely better stories about these characters written by fans, on the internet, for FREE.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Good idea, bad book.
Review: Good point: The plot is an interesting idea.

Bad points: No background for the characters, jumps right into the story and the story does seem to end VERY swiftly. I wanted more about the planet, the alien race and more interaction between SG-1 itself. Details, details to give it flavor, color, shapes, to make it a meal to enjoy. This book was more like pre-chewed gum!
Weak and not for a person NEW to the TV series. This is my first read from the book series and I hope the first three books were BETTER. Maybe starting from the beginning would have been better...

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: This review is going to sound like the others...
Review: Good point: The plot is an interesting idea.

Bad points: No background for the characters, jumps right into the story and the story does seem to end VERY swiftly. I wanted more about the planet, the alien race and more interaction between SG-1 itself. Details, details to give it flavor, color, shapes, to make it a meal to enjoy. This book was more like pre-chewed gum!
Weak and not for a person NEW to the TV series. This is my first read from the book series and I hope the first three books were BETTER. Maybe starting from the beginning would have been better...

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Ashley is familiar with Solaris
Review: I see that the author appears to have read Solaris. Good,I can see references to it, in the way the SG-1 team reacts when they meet the aliens, and start having problems with lucid dreaming,which is by the way,readers,an actual military project. Its called Stargate ,and is written by David Morehouse.I suggest all the disappointed readers who feel that they have been let down by the author's 'bad attempts at the story this time' go read that book.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Better than the others but not much.....
Review: No offence to the author but I think its time we had someone else take a crack at the SG-1 novel. As others have pointed out there were plenty of inconsistancies and downright errors. As I recall O'Neill keeps refering to Daniel as Jackson which seems kindoff formal. The Amanda Carter error really bugged me (Im a fan, what did you expect?). I agree that the ending was waaaaay too abrupt. There should have been at least 50 more pages wrapping up the story. After I read the last page I remeber thinking, "Where the heck is the rest of the book?". I found myself rereading the last few chapters to see if I had missed something. If this is going to be the norm for SG-1 novels in the future this fan is going to loose interest fairly quickly. At ten loonies a pop they are a likely to become a tough sell.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Awful, awful book!
Review: Seldom do you get such a clear idea of why a series of books has been discontinued. The author not only got several key details wrong (calling Daniel a blonde, at one point referring to Amanda Carter), but the story was convaluted and pointless. It seemed they pulled the resolution out of thin air. I don't know about you, but I prefer a little more thought to go into solutions. It also ended way too soon. How did they get home? How'd they get past the aliens? We don't know and, I believe, neither does Ms. McConnell.

If they plan to make more Stargate SG-1 books, perhaps they could find someone who has actually seen an episode or two.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Don't Waste Your Time
Review: The book trodded along for far too long, without any real plot. 304 pages went by before the author was stunned to realize she should probably stop writing and wrapped up the entire thing in two pages. There are many, many fan fiction stories which are superior to this one. Even the bad fan fic is over before you have time to worry about it's shoddiness. The basic errors (Daniel's BLONDE hair) and AMANDA Carter proved to me that this book was thrown together. I wish I had waited before buying this book. Live and learn, I suppose.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Now, don't say no one ever warned you ;)
Review: The book, The Morpheus Factor, left me speechless... and not in the good way. Sam seems to be cursed -- in this book she's refereed to as 'Amanda Carter' which gives me serious doubts about the author's familiarity with the characters. Daniel somehow went blonde. Jack and Frasier flirt. There are weird, endless dream sequences with seemingly no meaning. The plot was a joke and the conclusion nonexistent -- as though the author had simply up and stopped writing. It's not that I haven't read bad Stargate fiction before... it's just that before TMF, that fiction had always been free on the Net and written by unpaid fans.


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