false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559114m/105741.jpg 105741 9 For those who never leave home without a copy of the prophecies of Nostradamus tucked in their hip pocket, Steve Alten's new thriller is just the ticket. <I>Domain</I> focuses its doomsday scenario on an ancient Mayan myth and sets up an intriguing pair of saviors in Dominique Vasquez, a psych grad student who's an intern at a Florida psychiatric facility, and Mick Gabriel, her first patient. Mick, the son of two famous archaeologists, has languished in the Miami asylum for over a decade after attacking the man who publicly humiliated his father and who now happens to be the American secretary of state. The elder Gabriel believed he had unearthed the riddle surrounding the origins of Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid of Giza, the desert glyphs of the Nazca desert, the temples of Angkor Wat, and the Mayan ruins of the Yucatan peninsula--and that the answer pointed inexorably to the doom of humanity. <p> As the winter solstice of 2012 approaches (the day of reckoning prophesied by the myths of the Kukulcan Pyramid at Chichen Itza), Mick enlists Dominique in his effort to save mankind from the apocalypse. Engineering his escape from the hospital, she accompanies him on a desperate search to find his way into the pyramid before the radio message from space, which has already activated a deadly alien weapon buried deep in the Gulf of Mexico, can open a galactic gateway to a world where evil will reign for all eternity. Alten's talent for pacing far outstrips his other writerly gifts. The political subplot is ludicrous, the special effects way over the top, and the villain-in-chief, who happens to be named Borgia, is merely a cartoon. But the story is original enough to pass muster and the past success of similar apocalyptic thrillers bodes well for this one. <I>--Jane Adams</I> 101928 1998 Domain (The Domain Trilogy) total:178|5:34|4:62|3:62|2:13|1:7| 178 637 260 24 2 0 false false Tue Jan 27 05:47:40 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 05:48:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 27 20:02:34 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 20:02:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed May 06 08:01:27 -0700 2009 Fri Feb 20 19:38:25 -0800 2009 Wed May 06 08:01:27 -0700 2009 The most important characters of the book are Michel and Dominique. Michel was an archeologist, him and his father julius Gabrie...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 17:03:41 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 17:07:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 08:28:52 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 19:09:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 07:15:56 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 06:05:20 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 15:35:41 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 17:53:43 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 09 14:53:28 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 14:55:15 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Wed Mar 05 14:51:23 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 15:06:55 -0800 2008
Drawn out, unrealistic realization of the doomsday. The characters are shallow. The plot line is needlessly stretched. Even the dia...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Mon Jul 13 02:30:55 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 02:32:11 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Apr 27 18:32:20 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 18:32:43 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jul 28 13:22:27 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 13:22:40 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Aug 10 13:58:45 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 13:58:58 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jul 02 00:54:45 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 00:54:58 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Sep 26 13:51:30 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 12 15:53:20 -0800 2009
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