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Summary: Quite simply, the best adventure novel I have read in years
Review: This is a high adventure story that could (and may) happen! A story of a castastrophic occurance that is plausable and even predicted by some scientists due to an alignment of the planets in the near future, this book details with amazing clarity the struggle of survival by a small group of people who banded together to travel to a safe haven where they can start their lives over. The book will hold your interest. In fact, you may find, like me, that you will probably lose some sleep because you just can't put it down! The story had me envisioning every situation as it unfolded and I constantly had to " find out what happened" before I could put it down. This is a "must read" book that screams to be made into a movie...
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Summary: A high adventure tale based on scientific fact
Review: I'm being accused of costing people sleep across the country. Those who start this book in the evening, almost inevitably end up reading straight through into the early morning hours. I can unequivocally guarantee that you will not be bored with this novel.
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Summary: Move over Clive Cussler, meet the new kid on the block.
Review: Don't have any plans before starting this book. Reisig and The New Madrid Run are guaranteed to lock you to your seat for six to eight hours. A tale of plausible catastrophe, and an extraordinary journey into a changed world.
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Summary: A Great Story!
Review: I just finished reading "The New Madrid Run" for the second time and I enjoyed it more than the first. Over the last couple of years I've become a fan of Michael Reisig's writing and his novels.The New Madrid Run was his first and doesn't necessarily have the smoothest prose, as his other works do...but what it has, why it captures so many readers, is a remarkable sense of "you are there" in the action scenes. Reisig's descriptive ability is wonderful, from the thumping tempo of an airplane crashing, or fire fight, to a brilliant rendering of the sea in the evening as the sun settles into it. The main character, Travis Christian, reminds me of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt when he first came on the scene. This book isn't about the doom and gloom of global disaster. It's about surviving disaster through faith and sheer willpower, and it's about the power and strength of friendship, which is the theme through all of Reisig's books. The quasi-intellectual reviews on this book are misleading and grossly unfair to the author. Come on folks, loosen up...this
isn't "War and Peace" for pity's sake, it's an adventure story!! This book is not for the intellectual weenie, it's for those who really enjoy a good adventure.
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Summary: A Great Adventure for all ages
Review: You're going to have a tough time getting away from this one once you start it. A diamond in the rough and I think it would make a Great Movie.There's just nothing predictable about it. You have no idea what will be comeing next in the journey. The action is non-stop. I really enjoyed the difference in the characters (Rockford, Carlos,Cody and the Sensei). All great Characters from different walks of life. It's one of those easy to read "in a day" books. My 11 year old son has read it and loves the heros. "Cool is the words he used".
The author is just someone living out his adventure and after all isn't that what we tell our children (Read a book take an Adventure). Look at Huck Finn, no one ever dreamed it would be the Great Adventure it is today.
Give this book a chance it will be the best day of adventure you have since you were a kid....
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Summary: great adventure story!!
Review: four stars (****)
Not an intellectual read, but a good adventure story. I don't quite understand all the criticism on this book -- this is
adventure reading only -- it's not meant to be highbrow. The plot is a lot more probable than most people realize, the action is crisp and fast-moving,(Tsunami waves, airplane crashes, high seas encounters, gunfights, bar fights and aircraft dog fights), and the characters, although a little stereotyped, are highly memorable. Once I started, I didn't want to put it down. If you
want intellectual, order War and Peace. If you want some great high adventure, I highly recommend this book!
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Summary: All it is meant to be
Review: "The New Madrid Run" wa a highly entertaining read that most definitely held my interest throughout the entire book. While some may criticize it for it's simplicity, I feel NMR is all it was meant to be~an enjoyable, entertaining, easy read. Had I wanted "War and Peace" or "The Fountainhead", I would have reread them. Furthermore, the author has a unique wit that I found most entertaining. This prompted me to pick up his next book "The Hawks of Kamalon". For those of you wishing a thicker plot or a more challenging read, then "Hawks" may be what you're looking for. Keep up the great work, Michael Reisig. I'm anxiously awaiting your next novel.
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Summary: forgettable and stereotyped...
Review:
If this kind of "stuff" can get published then I need to quit my day job as a network engineer.
I enjoy a quick, shallow read but this one bottoms out in 5 pages. He has enough plotline for two books but just jams it all into one. The plot is fairly predictable as well and he pretty much writes in every bit of help. Hey, lets find LAW rockets and full cachet of machine guns on my second encounter! At each plot twist Reisig out does himself on coming up with improbable equipment driven solutions to problems.
The characters... A lot of people say the same thing, played out. Hot blonde, samurai, Cuban who is a mechanic/medic/cook, a mute boy, and a drunk preacher. WHY?!!? The boy does abolsutely nothing for the plot except get mentioned here and there. Naturally the hot blonde's sig other gets whacked in like 20 pages. 5 pages later she can barely contain her incredible love for the main character.
So cliched it should be skipped. There is much, much better stuff out there. Just pick up some Clancy or Cussler, trust me.
Sean
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Summary: Yet another vote for Stereotyping
Review: one star.
Since there are already over 50 reviews of this book, I'm chiming in to help lower the overall average.
This book seems to be drawing two kinds of reviews: Glowing, wonderful, exciting romp reviews, and stereotyped, carboard, predictable, unrealistic reviews.
If you have very well developed suspension of disbelief, or if you really don't know much about culture and science, then this book, like an action adventure movie, could be a lot of fun. But it has the intellectual rigor of League of Extrodinary Gentlemen. (I.E., none.) If you expect well devleoped consistant science ang culture, go read something else.
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Summary: A Great Story!
Review: I just finished reading "The New Madrid Run" for the second time and I enjoyed it more than the first. Over the last couple of years I've become a fan of Michael Reisig's writing and his novels. The New Madrid Run was his first and doesn't necessarily have the smoothest prose, as his other works do...but what it has, why it captures so many readers, is a remarkable sense of "you are there" in the action scenes. Reisig's descriptive ability is wonderful, from the thumping tempo of an airplane crashing, or fire fight, to a brilliant rendering of the sea in the evening as the sun settles into it. The main character, Travis Christian, reminds me of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt when he first came on the scene. This book isn't about the doom and gloom of global disaster. It's about surviving disaster through faith and sheer willpower, and it's about the power and strength of friendship, which is the theme through all of Reisig's books. The quasi-intellectual reviews on this book are misleading and grossly unfair to the author. Come on folks, loosen up...this
isn't "War and Peace" for pity's sake, it's an adventure story!! This book is not for the intellectual weenie, it's for those who really enjoy a good adventure.
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