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  <title><![CDATA[MEG: A Novel of Deep Terror]]></title>
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  <default_description>Revised and expanded edition, soon to be a major motion picture! On  a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor  found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator  in the history of the animal kingdom. The sole survivor of the mission,  Taylor is haunted by what he's sure he saw but still can't prove exists  - Carcharodon megalodon, the massive mother of the great white shark.  The average prehistoric Meg weighs in at twenty tons and could tear  apart a Tyrannosaurus rex in seconds.&lt;p&gt;    Written off as a crackpot suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder,  Taylor refuses to forget the depths that nearly cost him his life. With  a Ph.D. in paleontology under his belt, Taylor spends years theorizing,  lecturing, and writing about the possibility that Meg still feeds at the  deepest levels of the sea. But it takes an old friend in need to get him  to return to the water, and a hotshot female submarine pilot to dare him  back into a high-tech miniature sub.&lt;p&gt;    Diving deeper than he ever has before, Taylor will face terror like he's  never imagined, and what he finds could turn the tides bloody red until  the end of time. MEG is about to surface. When she does, nothing and no  one is going to be safe, and Jonas must face his greatest fear once  again.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1997</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Steve Alten]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book/series deserves 529 stars! Seriously! Any book with a jacket blurb stating &quot;I have just two words for you: JURASSIC SHARK!&quot; deserves the Nobel Prize for first class airport literature.<br/><br/>This is what pulpy, guilty-pleasure reading is all about. You've got action, sex, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64001665">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At the risk of sounding like the comic book guy from The Simpsons, Meg is my candidate for the worst book EVER. It has the most laughable motivation I’ve ever seen in a novel, much less a novel put out by a major publisher!<br/><br/>Jonas Taylor is an oceanographer who had a terrifying experienc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41461494">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74813279">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 17 07:19:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 21 08:58:44 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, I know that thrillers are for fun and excitement, but this book is just so relentlessly dumb that I couldn't suspend disbelief for a minute.<br/><br/>I'm not sure if it's the he-man/author stand-in lead character, the comically cardboard villains, the tsunami of cliches, or the ridiculous con...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74813279">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not bad- could have been shorter.  Ex-Naval deep sea pilot devotes life to researching Megalodons after believing he saw one in the Mariana Trench.  Turns out he ws right.  Through cocky mishap a Meg is allowed to escape the Trench and wreak havoc on modern day whales and humans across the Pacific O...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62748523">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="79246619">
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    <body><![CDATA[Action packed to the very end. Jonas Taylor is an ex-underwater Marine,  one day in the Mariana Trench, he sees a giant white object. And he get scared by the object and ends up killing two men on his way up to the surface. He believes the object he saw was a Meglodon shark, a prehistoric shark that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79246619">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67729839">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There’s a preposterous moment in Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus when a ship captain, anticipating an attack from the 2000 foot shark, murmurs with religious awe, “It rises!” MEG is much less preposterous, for the most part, but is still interesting and amusing. Good summer reading before I se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67729839">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[MEG: A Novel of Deep Terror struck me again with Steve Alten's excellence in Sea Monster based horror. Possibly the next Peter Benchley? Jonas Taylor, an ex navy member, leaves the service after a freak accident on an exploration of the Mariana Trench 35,000 feet under water, that killed the two sol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9311217">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Steve Alten was a presenter at a writer's conference I attended and I received the book as a gift. It was Alten's first book now in a reprinting and soon to be a motion picture. It was intellectually interesting to read. I had seen the skeleton of the megalodon at Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60028147">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56194259">
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    <body><![CDATA[Here's the deal... the first half of the book is actually very entertaining.  This is obviously fiction, but there is enough science and &quot;what if&quot; upfront that you really get into this B horror script... However, the story completely derails later on and the ending is simply ridiculous.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56194259">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Possibly not the best book to read on a dive trip - one about a 60-foot prehistoric shark - but the descriptions and background of the shark and the deep trenches were interesting, though the story was predictable and &quot;made for TV movie&quot; - complete with glow-in-the-dark shark and a couple ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53735652">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20388135">
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    <body><![CDATA[An exploitation book if ever there was such a thing, this book has it all--flesh munching, science, blood, romance, guts, action, gore, technology, bone crunching, sinister antagonists and heroic protagonists. More or less every living thing in the Pacific Ocean--human and nonhuman alike--gets swall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20388135">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57580628">
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    <name><![CDATA[Phil]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my guiltiest pleasures.<br/>Two words: Jurassic Shark!<br/><br/>A prehistoric Characadon Megaladon (a hundred foot long great white) surfaces from the depths and high seas chaos ensues.  The reader knows exactly where this is headed from the beginning, and it's a great ride.  Deep water th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57580628">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wavered between 2 and 3 stars. Let's call it 2 1/2. I was lol'ing by the end. This book was ridiculously entertaining. I love when authors feel the need to constantly remind the reader of things as if we're too simple-minded to remember plot elements. It was a quick read with lots of awesome death...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49895348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64152588">
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked the Meg Series.  The first book, Meg, Meg The Trench, Meg Primal Waters, This one and there is one more.  It is about some prehistoric sharks, but what I like is the author did some research on alot of things and so it is real with his story behind it.  There is action, love, and all ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64152588">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61736542">
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book and I don't care what anyone says it was awesome. It was like Jaws on steroids. Heart pounding edge of your seat and every other cliched description for action you can throw in there. I read it in six hours. I didn't even stop to eat I brought it with me to the dinner table.]]></body>
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    <review id="76835605">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first Steve Alten book I read.  I actually enjoyed it.  Had a nice mix of horror and suspense, and I suspect a good amount of research as well.  Not meant to be &quot;the Great American Novel&quot;, but something more out of entertainment and a good read.  Mission accomplished!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, it is scary.  Not as scary as some of his other books but still scary.  Add to that is great flair for research and educating as you read, you come out smarter and still scared.  The Trench is just as good.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[adventure story that gets bogged down in scientific details, long in detail. Great white sharks big ancestor - 100,000 year old lives in heated volcanic vents in Pacific ]]></body>
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