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Summary: Great Book!
Review: Extremely enjoyable adventure novel-- had just about the right mix of action, adventure, science, and romance. A must read if you have a day to spare!!!
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Summary: It was a 5 star success!
Review: It was a heart-pounding success for a first novel by Mr. Becker!
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Summary: I couldn't wait for the next page.... LOVED IT
Review: I loved it.... a very fast paced and well written novel... one fascinating thing is the Bibliography...... is this fiction ??? Read and make your decision........
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Summary: "LINK" will find great acceptance among the illiterate.
Review: A splattering of references to scientific fields with no apparent effort at comprehension, artifacts from alien visits, preachy anti-evolution" nonsense, shallow characters, and a childish plot should make Morrow, the publisher, ashamed. Reads very fast -- because you skip a lot.
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Summary: Excellent book. Highly entertaining!!!
Review: I found LINK to be a great read. It was quickly paced (I read the book in two days), the characters were well-developed and compelling, and the science-fiction elements were also intriguing. I think almost anyone would find this story enjoyable. It was given to me by a friend who raved about it and I am glad she did! However, I found some of the reviews of this book actually comical. One of the reviewers even admitted to writing more than one bad review because he had problems with some of the "science" in the book. This person obviously doesn't have a job! I think they could do us all a favor if they moved on with their life, and let people who enjoy well-told fiction, to appreciate a good story. Had I wanted to read non-fiction I would have purchased the countless books devoted to some of the issues raised in the story. I wanted to get lost in a fictional world. I would hope people could save their condescending attitude towards some of the science for works of non-fiction and textbooks and not to preach to us about what we should and shouldn't believe about the story. Especially when so much of what people are asserting is just as "weak" in its scientific basis. It's sad really-- but I think a testament to Mr. Becker's fine novel. If someone was that deeply affected by a creative yarn that they find themselves writing multiple reviews about it, maybe they should ask themselves why. I'm sure it stems from a hideous sense of insecurity. (I wonder what they would say about Sphere or Jurassic Park or any other science-fiction. One would never be able to go to the movies and enjoy them that's for sure!) At any rate, they should give other people credit for being able to realize that this novel is just that-- a novel-- and forget preaching to us about what they think is scientifically accurate and what they think isn't. For people who like to read good stories-- they'll find it here. And the book raises some interesting questions (just questions) about the origins of man and ancient history. It obviously has a rather strange power to captivate people on both sides, whether you enjoyed it or not, because it seems even the most critical just can't stop talking about it! I do have to agree with one review about the audio-tape which a colleague at work had. It doesn't really do justice to the novel. I believe it might have been the performance of the reader-- or it could have been the unabridged version which usually tends to simplify the story to a fault. Sorry to ramble on, but I did feel strongly that this was a great book and many, many people from all walks of life will enjoy it!
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Summary: A fantastic read
Review: If you seek a story that never lets up, with excellent writing and and a spell-binding premise, read Link. Thoroughly enjoyable!
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Summary: and another thing...
Review: for an example of the kind of poor writing that confronts us when reading this, consider what happens when our intrepid paleoanthropologists discover an ancient door, or something. They measure it, and find it to be exactly 75 inches by 150 inches. The leader exclaims something like, "It's the Golden Mean! Phi!" and then explains that Phi is an irrational number, a ratio of about 1.61 to one. If this weren't lame enough, he also goes on about how no ancient people could have figured out this number without help. The Golden Mean can, in fact, be trivially derived with a compass and straightedge. If you do not have a compass and straightedge, it can be scratched in the dirt if you have a piece of rope and a stick.I already wrote one review of this, but I don't think it conveyed the depth of my dislike for this work.
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Summary: Great read...
Review: Reading through some of the other reviews, the attacks that Mr. Becker take are coming from people who forget that this is a work of fiction. Mr. Becker has written a first time novel that is stimulating, thought-provoking and definitely entertaining. Readers should forget their ideals in fiction and just remember that science fiction has most of its ideas coming from ideas of the past mingling with the future.
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Summary: It's a shame I can't give it zero stars
Review: If you pine for the days when Erich von Daniken ruled the best seller list, this book may be for you. The 'science' was laughable, the characters wooden, and all persons involved in the writing and editing of this witless tripe should be sent to the Lionel Fanthorpe Home for Remedial Education of Incompetent Writers on Paranormal Subjects. The most glaring errors: in the last quarter of the book, how did the CIA calculate a yield estimate for the 'tactical device'? Also in this section, 'kiloton' should be replaced with 'megaton' everywhere it occurs. The Second Law of Thermodynamics does not apply in the circumstances our protagonist mentions. To avoid spoiling the story for people who wish to read it, I won't mention the other dozen or so flaws. In short, it's just about bad enough to read out loud to see who will pay you to stop.
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Summary: One of the best scifi books I have ever read!
Review: With this tour de force, Walt Becker has shown himself to be a masterful story teller, spinning a spell binding tale that pulls together many real life mysteries of the origins of prehistoric Man. It also is a very emotionally genuine romantic tale, set in a fast paced epic story. I found it hard to put the book down. I think Walt Becker's book is worthy of being placed along side of the books by other masters, such as Asimov, Bova, and Card. I look forward to a sequel.
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