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Summary: Cussler at his best
Review: Atlantis Found ranks not only as one of the most enthralling adventures undertaken by the wisecracking Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino but as one of the greatest books I have read recently. The ingredients are formulaic, as with most of the Dirk Pitt novels, but in Atlantis Found the plot is constructed with trademark Cussler flair and punctuated by thrilling Pitt action/adventure.Yes, one could argue that similar plots have been used in his previous books, but Atlantis Found possesses a panache greatly lacking in today's action offerings. A classic Dirk Pitt novel and definitely one of the best.
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Summary: Speak the lines, I pray you . . .
Review: Fascinating story, BUT, good Lord--the dialogue! Clusser is in desperate need of a partner to handle the dialogue; people do not talk like that, and I cringe/am disappointed anew every time his characters open their mouths.
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Summary: online book review
Review: great plot, action and characters weaved in with historical detail.This is no doubt the best cussler novel, alongside Iceberg, and he will never top it. It's great escapist fun, why do some reviewers say it's got no character or plotting or it's not serious leterature, blah, blah. Wake up guys, its ain't meant to be serious lit, it's escapist fun and i had rather read cussler than some boring, pretentious, depressing lit book.lighten up guys, it's fiction. Just sit back and enjoy and stop looking too deep into things.
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Summary: A good action thriller from Cussler
Review: I came to the world of Dirk Pitt and Clive Cussler later than most. I had seen the movie based on his RAISE THE TITANIC novel and enjoyed it and even remembered seeing a copy of that novel in my local newsagents when I was but a young boy.
But, it wasn't for another two decades that I finally picked up a Cussler novel and began reading - it was an experience that had me jetting off to the local bookstore and scouring the pages of amazon.com for more Pitt adventures to dive into. The book that had that impact on me was ATLANTIS FOUND, a book that single handedly changed my reading habits and entertained me through a number of business trips.
Though the plot may be a little convoluted and improbable and the whole re-emergemce of a Nazi power somewhat cliched - its been done before and more convincingly in novels like THE HOLCROFT COVENENT and ICEBREAKER to name but a few. But, what Cussler does possess in ample quantities here is a knack for writing an action scene. In fact the book ATLANTIS FOUND can be seen as a series of action setpieces strung together over the span of 500-plus pages. No matter though, I liked the way the pot was developed, the idea of the giant ships and the way that Cussler was able to tie together an ancient meteor strike and the nineteenth-century discovery of an ice tundra bound ghost ship to present day events.
All of the Cussler elements that have become trademarks for the writer over the years are here in abundance and although he still has some appalling dialogue and convoluted plotting, I personally found the novel to be a real page turner.
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Summary: Written for a child
Review: I have heard Clive's books in the bookstore. Finally a friend passed one on to me when we got on the subject of previous civilizations that might have been the root of the Atlantis myth. I should have known when he qualified the book by saying it was kind of simplistic - even compared to Clancy and the like. But I adjusted my expectations downward and gave it a real chance.
It takes a real stinker of a book to get me to stop reading it after getting through 3/5ths of a book, but it has achieved that distinction.
I started off strong, too. The set up of the story with secret tombs, civilizations etc... was great! (and for that I give it 2 stars rather than one) But the action story with the corny characters just wasn't for me. I find myself rooting for the Nazis to win. I guess I will start writing myself - obviously the bar is pretty low if works like this can make an author rich. I guess I respect Cussler and the fact he does things in real life like NUMA, but if this is representative of his writing he should stick to diving.
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Summary: could use working on
Review: I will continue to read cussler and dirk pitt. I just wish the way the story unwinds would differ a little.....
This is another good one.
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Summary: Great, but typical Cussler
Review: I will continue to read cussler and dirk pitt. I just wish the way the story unwinds would differ a little.....
This is another good one.
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Summary: could use working on
Review: it was wonderful though it could have been better. it had great details etc. but the only problem was that there were too many boring parts with detail to the point it was almost similar to clancy
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Summary: The absolute worst dialogue I've ever read!
Review: The plot was OK enough to keep me reading, although a bit far-fetched at times. But the worst part was the dialogue! Good grief! It was some of the most inane reading I've ever seen!! Instead of using the narrative to describe what has happened, all of the characters describe it to each other. For example, in one portion of the book, two characters are in a plane, one wakes up and asked how long they had been flying. Since at this point we didn't know exactly why they were flying or where they had come from, Cussler has to explain it. But instead of using a narrative to explain it ("They left the airbase that morning...."), he has the characters explain to each other. One character said to the other "It's been four hours since we took off from suchandsuch ship near suchandsuch bay off the coast of Argentina". Give me a break! They both took off and knew where they were, did he really need to tell his friend where they took off from when all he wanted to know was how long he'd been asleep?? And this went on throughout the entire book.
To make a short story long, Cussler just writes like a Scooby Doo cartoon. He has all the characters explain EVERYTHING that's happening instead of using the narrative to tell the background info. It's the tired classic of the bad guy explaining his evil plot to the good guys right before he kills them. If all of his books are like that, I doubt I'll read any others by this author.
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Summary: Like a horse with a broken leg, I had to put it down.
Review: This was my first Cussler novel. I had heard such great things about his books but I was sorely disappointed. Sure, the action was great. I love good action. However, the characters were so waaaaay over the top it became truly annoying. Dirk Pitt does everything so perfectly. He never makes mistakes. He is super-human and super-macho. The characters is completely unbelievable. The book could have been great had the characters been more "down to earh".
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