Rating: 
Summary: Excellent read.
Review: There are three science fiction authors whose works I enjoy that can be entertaining while weaving a bit of science and historical fact into a story. They are: Steve Alten, Michael Crichton, and Neal Stephenson. DOMAIN is the third book I've read by Steve Alten. After reading the thrilling deep sea shark stories MEG and the sequel THE TRENCH, I was eager to read another Steve Alten book. DOMAIN did not disappoint me. There are several key plots in DOMAIN that make it a difficult book to put down. A crooked politician, the world on the verge of nuclear war, a hero wrongly imprisoned in a mental institution, a female psych grad student intern (of Mayan heritage), and ancient prophecies of impending doom all tightly woven into a remarkable story. Thanks for the exciting ride, Steve. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Rating: 
Summary: Awful. Awful. Awful.
Review: Uggh. This book was so frustrating to me. I'm not usually a nitpicker but there were just too many things in this book that made me ask "what the heck is this author thinking?"
Supposedly well-educated NASA scientists referring to the "dark side of the moon?" (FYI - there is no such thing).
The Vice President flying from Washington D.C. to the Yucutan -- in a helicopter? Huh? (and in 4 hours?) The Vice President would not fly thousands of miles, to another country, over a thousand miles of open ocean in a helicopter.
Two days after the government realizes something is going on in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, they have a suddenly refitted oil rig on scene? Yeah, right.
NASA and SETI scientists saying an alien signal originates somewhere in the Orion constellation? Ummm. No. (Maybe if they said "in the direction of Orion" but they repeatedly say "in the Orion constellation."
And that's just a few things that really bugged me!
It's obvious the author did quite a bit of research on mythology but the leaps he makes in some of this other stuff is just mind boggling to me.
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