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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: One of the worst books I ever read!
Review: This book has encouraged me to quit wasting my time with books that are going nowhere, from now on I will just quit reading them! There was NOTHING about this book that I liked! The entire storyline was improbable in the extreme. Some specifics that bothered me: You can't outrun a Tsunami (if you're close enough to see it you're boned; they travel at over 400 MPH) yet the main character has time to drive to the airport, fire up his plane and get airborne in time to witness the destruction! Also, why in the world would the protagonists stop in a dangerous river town when they didn't need anything? (Except to add some more useless characters.)
And finally, wouldn't you think that a private army would have some sort of anti-aircraft capablilty? At least enough to bring down a vintage P-51? There were many more problems with this book and considering it's been a couple of years since I read it, I'm amazed I remember this much. In conclusion, if I could choose between re-reading this book or giving birth to a flaming porcupine I would choose the porcupine every time!
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Summary: Three and a half stars - decent, original post-apoc. book
Review: While some reviewers tend to focus on the negative aspects of a book, I would prefer to look at a work's positive points. Michael Reisig's first major novel, The New Madrid Run, published by an independent press in Arkansas, is an interesting experiment not only in post-apocalyptic literature but in publishing itself. The premise of the novel is a little far-fetched: a violent shift in the Earth's magnetic poles causes massive earthquakes and tidal waves, and the main character, a pilot and sailor in the Florida Keys, makes for some property he bought a long time ago in Arkansas for this express purpose. On the way, he picks up some characters, meets some other characters, and eventually heads to a showdown with the main bad guy, a kind of survivalist general who has commandeered much of the local National Guard supplies. So the story isn't original (even if the disaster premise is), it ends too quickly, the characters don't show much real development, and the villain is a cutout stereotype. So what? Reisig breaks post-apocalyptic convention on two important counts: first, New Madrid Run, like The Postman (from which it obviously draws inspiration), does not revel in the downfall of civilization. It isn't some big free-for-all, where extreme libertarians don't have to pay taxes to the Evil Gub'ment ™ no more, and might makes right (although the bad guys are dispersed by guns). Second, like The Postman, the survivalists are the bad guys. In an overmined genre, it's refreshing to see at least a semi-sane take on the realities of a post-disaster America. All in all, Reisig has created an interesting read. The prose, while not Nabokov, flows nicely, and there are only a few times where the reader thinks that an experienced editor might have helped the novel. For that is the other means by which Reisig defied convention; going through a small, on-demand press, he circumvented normal publishing routes and created a book and successfully marketed it both on the Internet and in his area. No mean feat, that, and it beats having to pay an agent to sell your manuscript (although another editing eye is always helpful). Certainly not a method for every writer, but one that is to be admired. The product of these endeavors, while entirely satisfying, belongs on any post-apocalyptic aficionado's shelf, if only for the premise alone. For those who enjoy a decent action romp, there are worse ways to spend your time.
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Summary: A "Rocker" of an EarthQuake Story!
Review: This was a great book. Some of the characters were shallow, in fact, some of them were virtually transparent. However, the story line itself was wonderful. A suspenseful "killer-earthquake" novel, it took me only ONE day to finish it. The dialogue was cheesy at times, but I would recommend it either way!!! ...
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