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Atlantis (Jack Howard #1)

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From an extraordinary discovery in a remote desert oasis to a desperate race against time in the ocean depths, a team of adventurers is about to find the truth behind the most baffling legend in history. The hunt is on - for Marine archaeologist Jack Howard has stumbled upon the keys to an ancient puzzle. With a crack team of scientific experts and ex-Special Forces comman...more

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Published July 18th 2005 by Headline Book Publishing (first published January 1st 2005)

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Jul 27, 2012 Algernon rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011

Easily the worst book I've tried in 2011. I am usually very easy to please, witness my 4 star median rating on Goodreads, but Gibbins ticked me in all the wrong places. I am also an advocate of letting readers make up their own opinion and not thrashing any author or book, but my friendly advice is : stay away from this.
I choose the book without any previous research, solely based on the subject of Atlantis. It is, as usual with the theme, not really about ancient Atlantis, but about modern arch...more

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May 25, 2007 Poppy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: general-fiction

A bunch of archaeologist searching for Atlantis. Well, their adventure in searching is intriguing, the conflict with terrorist adds suspense. But too many technoblab that made me say, "Huh?" every time someone explain an operation of a high tech (fictional) machine. And there are many, I tell you, and unnecessary.

Plus, in the end the main character reminds me too much of Rambo. He's a marine archaeologist for goodness sake, not a search-and-destroy kind of soldier. But all and all I like the plo...more

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Feb 02, 2010 Bellady rated it 2 of 5 stars

I picked up this book coz I misplaced the other 2 books I currently read and until now still couldn't find where they are. Telling about the adventure of a bunch of archeologists who found a series of clue about where the mythical Atlantis truly was. Interesting, but I still find it difficult to decide whether I like it or not. Usually this's the kind of book I could truly love. But don't know why, I can't make up my mind yet. Oh well, just beginning reading it, and not yet halfway, so hoping I...more

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May 20, 2013 David Roberts rated it 4 of 5 stars

I am reviewing the adventure novel Atlantis by David Gibbons which is very good & which I bought from a local secondhand bookstore. Gibbons is an expert on shipwrecks & lost cities so a lot of the information on Atlantis is based on fact. The plot is an historian called Jack and his team find an artifact that leads them to Atlantis, in the Nile Delta region. It appears the war between the Greeks & the Atlanteans was in fact a war between the Minoans & the Mycennaens. The Atlantea...more

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Jan 04, 2013 Arlavor rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Dans ce roman, je me suis beaucoup (beaucoup beaucoup) plus intéressée à l'intrigue qu'aux personnages. Même si pour la plupart, ils sont sympathiques et font bien avancer l'histoire, j'ai eu du mal à m'attacher à eux. D'ailleurs, je ne pense pas que ce soit le but du roman même si je suis toujours contente de retrouver Jack et Costas dans toutes leurs autres aventures sous-marines à travers le monde.

J'ai été un petit peu déçue, au début, que la découverte de l'emplacement de l'Atlantide se fas...more Dans ce roman, je me suis beaucoup (beaucoup beaucoup) plus intéressée à l'intrigue qu'aux personnages. Même si pour la plupart, ils sont sympathiques et font bien avancer l'histoire, j'ai eu du mal à m'attacher à eux. D'ailleurs, je ne pense pas que ce soit le but du roman même si je suis toujours contente de retrouver Jack et Costas dans toutes leurs autres aventures sous-marines à travers le monde.

J'ai été un petit peu déçue, au début, que la découverte de l'emplacement de l'Atlantide se fasse si rapidement. J'aurais bien aimé qu'il y ait des énigmes pour arriver jusque là, que Jack et ses amis soient obligés de faire le tour du monde pour trouver des indices. Mais ils rencontrent tant de problèmes dans leur exploration sous-marine que ça ne m'a pas manqué tant que ça. On ressent la pression des personnages, principalement de Jack et Costas, et on vit l'aventure en même temps qu'eux.

Les découvertes que font les personnages sont impressionnantes mais toutes appuyées (même si elles sont fictives) par des textes historiques (comme celui de Platon), des faits irréfutables, etc... En lisant les romans de David Gibbins, on apprend des tas et des tas de choses sur l'exploration sous-marine (même s'il dit que certaines des machines utilisées dans ces romans n'existent pas ou pas encore), sur les civilisations perdues comme les Minoens, sur les légendes, sur l'histoire. C'est un excellent roman pour la culture générale.

Et en plus de tout ça, il y a beaucoup d'action. L'exploration de l'Atlantide ne se fait pas vraiment dans le calme, les problèmes leurs tombent dessus (ou ils tombent dessus tous seuls) et ils rencontrent des méchants vraiment très méchants qui ne sont pas d'accord avec leur exploration.

Jack Howard, c'est l'Indiana Jones des fonds marins!

L'écriture est plutôt fluide. Le principal problème que l'on peut rencontrer, c'est que certaines explications peuvent paraître un peu ardues pour des personnes qui n'y connaissent pas grand chose en archéologie sous-marine mais ce n'est pas non plus trop compliqué alors ça n’entache pas vraiment la compréhension de l'histoire.

Atlantis, c'est un roman qui est un beau mélange de tout un tas de choses (et ça fait une bonne salade) et ça fonctionne très bien.

J'ai lu sur le blog de David Gibbins qu'Atlantis allait être adapté sous forme d'une mini-série de trois heures, un coproduction canadienne et allemande qui devrait sortir d'ici la fin de l'année 2012 et j'espère qu'un jour, je pourrais la voir en France.(less)

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Sep 04, 2012 Marla rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: personal-library

I had seen the series as I was browsing my libraries ebook website looking for some to check out, but didn't give it more than a cursory glance. Then I saw the whole series at a used bookstore, and there's nothing like having an actual book in your hand. I read the 'about the author' and saw that he was a marine archeologist and that he had included some notes at the end of the book with brief information about the archeological facts he used as the basis for his book. All good things, plus I lo...more I had seen the series as I was browsing my libraries ebook website looking for some to check out, but didn't give it more than a cursory glance. Then I saw the whole series at a used bookstore, and there's nothing like having an actual book in your hand. I read the 'about the author' and saw that he was a marine archeologist and that he had included some notes at the end of the book with brief information about the archeological facts he used as the basis for his book. All good things, plus I love a good Atlantis story and I knew I could check out the rest of the series if I liked it, so I bought it and gave it a try.

It starts out a little rocky. Within the first 150 pages of a 451 page book they've already had one amazing break through after another and have pinpointed where Atlantis is, just like that. It was a little too convenient and within days they had figured out the mystery of Atlantis and also the beginning/spread of human civilization from 7,500 years ago. Not to mention the prologue, where we read about Solon's visit to Egypt and being told the story of Atlantis, is pretty much guessed by the character exactly as it happened. The prologue could have been left out entirely and then I wouldn't have rolled my eyes as the characters hypothesized how it had happened, I would have bought it without having been spoon fed it at the very beginning.
On the other hand, no one wants to read about characters taking months, years, decades to figure things out, so I can see why the author rushed though that bit to get to the part he really wanted to take his time writing about.

Now I'd really like to read a book(s) about the fall of Atlantis and the displacement of it's people like he has come up with in this book. It would be epic.

I did enjoy the book, you could tell the author knew what he was talking about, the various archeological facts, with some embellishments, and the description of Atlantis itself made for an excellent story. It helped that most of the facts I was at least somewhat familiar with so it was fun to see how they all tied in.

Another eye rolling moment was the brief blip of a vague attempt at some 'romance', which was completely unnecessary to the plot. The main character, Jack, mentions a few times how attractive Katya is, at one point they kiss then presumably slept together, the next day Jack thinks something like "they now had an unbreakable bond" which totally had me rolling my eyes. For one, I was suspicious of Katya because she was 'new' to the group(which was used to explain things, to us the readers through her, that the others would already know and have had no reason to explain to each other), but she was also Russian, which in fiction usually means bad guy. =P But it's an action story with not a lot of delving into the characters themselves, any more than necessary for the plot, so it didn't add any greater peril later on and just seemed sort of tacked on.

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P.S. My paperback copy doesn't match any of them on here, the cover is like the ebook copy.(less)

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Aug 15, 2012 Grace rated it 2 of 5 stars

I found this book in The Friends of Library for sale section at my local library for 50 cents.

I find underwater archaeology a fascinating subject. Combine that with a theory on the location of Atlantis and write it in novel form, and you have me caught as an interested reader. David Gibbins’ novel has enormous potential as both an action novel and that borders on science fiction grounded in realism. I very much liked the premise, but where the idea succeeded, the execution failed.

David Gibbins i...more I found this book in The Friends of Library for sale section at my local library for 50 cents.

I find underwater archaeology a fascinating subject. Combine that with a theory on the location of Atlantis and write it in novel form, and you have me caught as an interested reader. David Gibbins’ novel has enormous potential as both an action novel and that borders on science fiction grounded in realism. I very much liked the premise, but where the idea succeeded, the execution failed.

David Gibbins is an expert in his chosen field, and that expertise shines in this book. It’s obvious to me as the reader that he’s passionate about this subject and strives to educate the reader about undersea archaeology. Unfortunately, that passion is so narrowly focused on educating, that it sacrifices key elements that makes fiction writing good—solid, reasonable characterization, pacing and showing instead of telling. What few glimmers of interesting characterization exist are compromised by the dreaded Mary Sue/Gary Stu personification. Gibbins’ use of detail is overblown. Measurements for everything given down to the last centimeter; the acronym laser is spelled out in full, unnecessary definition and delivered by one of the most egregious uses of info. dumping – the “As you know, Bob...” technique and geographical minutae that degrades insteads of anchors the reader’s sense of place and culture. This book (and several other written by Gibbins) is published by Random House. I have to wonder where the editor was in all this, as many of the mistakes I’m seeing in this book are those made by beginning writers and should have been instant red flags for a diligent editor to spot and mark for revision.

Many of the action scenes seemed implausible, especially within context of the characters involved in them. Jack Howard is all things to all people, thus making him both annoying as well as shallow and unrealistic. His connection to the love interest of the book is so poorly established, the book would have benefitted more if it didn’t exist at all, and the two remained nothing more than friendly compatriots working toward the same goal.

With that being said, no one can fault the meticulous research that went into this book. It’s obvious to anyone, layman and expert alike, that Gibbins did his homework and put in an enormous amount of time and effort to lay the nonfiction groundwork for Atlantis. Were he to present this book more as a scientific theory for why Atlantis exists, when it existed and where it’s located, I’d consider it a reasonable presentation. However, the core essence of fiction for me is to be mildly educated on a subject and supremely entertained by it. Historical novel writers such Dorothy Dunnet and Antonia Fraser are masters at this craft. Meticulously researched, with characters that leap off the page. This book did the reverse for me. I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting to read about undersea archaeology with a touch of fiction to give it a little zing. As an entertaining read, I would suggest trying something else.

Were I to average out a rating, I’d give the research and theoretical aspect of this book a 5+, hands down. As a work of fiction, I’d give it a 1 for several contextual and structural errors such as weak characterization, plodding pace and excessive info. dumping with an overall rating of a 3; however, I still think that’s too high of an average and unfair to other books I’ve rated a 3 and found vastly superior in execution and technique. As such, I am rating this one a 2.
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Feb 04, 2012 Harry Steinmetz rated it 3 of 5 stars

A deeply flawed book, but an enjoyable read. More of an action/adventure book than the sci fi/fantasy I was expecting. The two stories, the discovery of Atlantis and the the ridiculous bad guy adventure could easily be seperate books and probably should have been. The finding of Atlantis moves with huge leaps and bounds and wild speculation is accepted with huge expedatures made in the flimsiest of theories, which always happen to the correct. The sunken Russian sub with nukes on it, just happen...more

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Oct 02, 2010 Benjamin Thomas rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: action-adventure

I really loved the premise of this book. The main character is a marine archeologist and gathers a team of experts in response to a find that seems to lead toward the discovery of the lost Atlantis. And I knew if I liked the book there were at least three more by the same author and with the same protagonist. The author himself is a professor of archeology at Cambridge for crying out loud and has led numerous underwater excavations and written extensively on the topic. To top that off, my daught...more I really loved the premise of this book. The main character is a marine archeologist and gathers a team of experts in response to a find that seems to lead toward the discovery of the lost Atlantis. And I knew if I liked the book there were at least three more by the same author and with the same protagonist. The author himself is a professor of archeology at Cambridge for crying out loud and has led numerous underwater excavations and written extensively on the topic. To top that off, my daughter is an archeology major with a keen interest in underwater archeology so I figured she could enjoy it after me. What could go wrong?

Well, this is the hazard of buying a book by its cover. If I had looked at the Amazon ratings for all four books by David Gibbons I would certainly have looked elsewhere as I have rarely seen so many negative reviews for one author. It's easy to see why. The book had such promise and fell soooo short. To begin with, Mr Gibbons may be a great professor but he hasn't a clue about what makes a quality novel. My most important criteria for a good read is characterization. Characters have to be multi-dimensional and go through changes (either positively or negatively) somehow within the course of the novel. The main three characters in this book started out perfect and ended up perfect. The first half of the book is devoted to the three of them showing off their knowledge to each other, sounding like professors in a classroom. I realize that there is a lot of information that the reader will have to know in order to make any sense of the events that come later, but Mr Gibbons goes way overboard here. Way too many facts that, while interesting on their own, were just not necessary for good story telling.

And the plot was simply not believable. In the space of about two days, the characters solved numerous archeological puzzles that have been around for eons, one discovery leading to another and among the three of them they always managed to have the expertise required to answer the puzzle before them. And then half way through the book we get the thriller part thrust upon us in the form of a sunken Russian nuclear submarine and assorted bad guys to interfere with the archeological parts of the novel. The main character gets shot and is in dire peril of losing his life but three pages later it's as if that never happened. We get to see him shooting down a helicopter with a gun (of course he happens to know the weak spots of that particular helicopter and can adjust to the 200 mile per hour winds so he knows just where to aim). Truly Mr Gibbons seems less comfortable with the action parts of the plot and it shows in it's choppy presentation. The "edge of your seat" thriller aspect of this novel was more like "why do I care what happens to these people?" As soon as he can he wraps up that portion of the story and the characters go back to their professorial discussions and one-upsmanship.

It's too bad. I think Mr Gibbons has potential as a writer but this one seems like yet another attempt to capitalize on the success of The DaVinci Code style of novel. Hopefully he can learn how to build suspense, hold his audience, and most importantly, create characters to which the reader can relate and come to care about. Unfortunately, given the ratings he has received on his other books, it seems he has not learned these lessons and thus will be limited to impulse buyers who are attracted to the cool covers of the books.
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Sep 22, 2010 Linn rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: History interested people with a great imagionation

Recommended to Linn by: No one did

I really do like this author as it’s a perfect mix of what I like: history and pure imagination. However, this book is probably my least favourite in the series as it’s somewhat slow. Almost took me three years to read it to the end – I managed reading the others BEFORE it. Here it’s more of an introduction to the entire series and the main characters.

At first, when I read about Jack, I thought he was somewhat of a player obsessed with his maritime archaeology with all those ancient shipwrecks...more

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Apr 12, 2010 HRM Maire rated it 2 of 5 stars

It was fun, if a filled with a little too much tech-talk for me. And I was with the author and the story, UNTIL THE END. Then he lost me and got me ticked off so badly I wanted to throw the book across the room. Yes, it's fiction and he made some pretty theories about the Atlanteans being the original "Indo-Europeans" that were the origins of all the major civilizations and their languages...located them somewhere different then all the common theories, very cool...and THEN the freakin' man goes...more

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Nov 28, 2009 Julie rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is so wonderfully awful that I can't put it down. A backstory first: my fiance and I used to get each other romance novels and use a bright yellow highlighter on the really gross, terrible parts. Makes for great airplane reading. I think this book deserves that treatment.

All of the characters are described in superlatives and have multiple skills that are completely unrelated to what the person does for a living. For example, we have a British underwater archeologist who is also talent...more

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Oct 02, 2012 Snowlynx rated it 4 of 5 stars

Ok, i saw this in the shelf at the bookstore and thought "oh well, another one about some wide-spread myth.." but something about the cover intrigued me and looked at the "about the author" text and discovered he was a real archaeologist. and since i study that..i bought it.

it is quite well written for a first novel and i guess the only reason it didn't get more sales is that it's just.. well.. archaeology. gibbins dives (pun not intended) so deep into the matter sometimes, that you have to at l...more

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Jan 31, 2009 Christa rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: library

I think that there was a good story at the heart of Atlantis, but it often was bogged down in descriptions. Some of the descriptions of a lost civilization and its treasures were so extensive that I couldn't begin to create a picture of them in my mind. The same was true of the descriptions of the ships and weaponry in the book. I would have enjoyed this book if more of it were given over to the plot instead of the multitude of details.

Jack Howard, a marine archaeologist, makes an astounding di...more

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Mar 25, 2012 Gopal Iyer rated it 2 of 5 stars

Picked up this book by David Gibbins on a lark. Atlantis has always a held my fancy. In fact anything to do with ancient civilizations and I'm a sucker. I picked up the book as the burb looked interesting.

The plot was good, but the problem was it got lost in too many technical details. Yes the writer comes from and archeaological background and it shows. A lot of page time is spent on academic and archealogical detail. I have no problems with details but they tend to be too long-winded and often...more

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Jul 07, 2009 Sean Ellis rated it 2 of 5 stars

I'm always on the lookout for a new "favorite" action-adventure series, so when I first heard about David Gibbins archaeolgical adventures, I had high hopes and high expectations. I was warned many times that Gibbins' writing was very dry and packed with lots of technical detail, but I really wanted to love this book.
The first half of the book was worse than dry, it was tedious. Most of the scenes consisted of the characters sitting around an discussing their discoveries. The characters themselv...more

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Sep 29, 2012 Sara rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ficção

Pelo título poderão perguntar se não se trata de mais um livro a juntar a tantos outros sobre a lendária Atlântida, descrita por platão e outros apaixonados por esta lendária lenda. Mas não! A resolução do mistério da atlântica permanecerá por enquanto um mistério, uma lenda que inspira ainda nos nossos dias e inspirou este autor, ao presentar nos com uma fabulosa história onde História da humanidade se mistura com a alta tecnologia dos nossos dias, no campo da arqueologia. Adicionem ainda uma p...more

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Jun 17, 2007 Shilpa rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book suffers from excessive rambling. When a group of specialists are speaking to one another you wouldn't expect them to go into detailed technical definitions every 5 minutes. The author basically pulled out the dictionary/encyclopedia everytime something technical was explained.

I love fantasy, but this book tries to be realisitc/probable...but its NOT! Ugh.

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Jul 30, 2012 Sarah rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I really wanted to like this book, and it showed promise at the beginning and ending, but for the most part this was not a book about Atlantis or secret plots or even the submarine they found at the bottom of the sea. This book was about technical speak, such as how to dive or about the various guns they used. It weighed the whole story to the point where you could skim over whole sections and not miss a thing. Also, the character development was pretty much non-existent. I felt I'd never been g...more

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Aug 22, 2009 DLKeur rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

One of the lamest reads, I had high hopes it would plunge me into an adventure worthy of its title and back blurb. It wasn’t. This book’s target audience is men who read Men’s Adventure novels, but I doubt that many men would sit through the windy archaeological dissertations delivered by “our hero” or by his sidekick, a breast-clad she-man love liaison. The agenda-filled undertows in this novel range from anti-pirating on the high seas to anti-female-circumcision and the enslavement of women by...more

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Mar 10, 2009 Kayeb rated it 4 of 5 stars

Jack Howard, archaeologist, and partner Costos are part of a search to locate Atlantis. Mostly, I enjoyed it, but I agree with other reviewers.....I could have used pictures at times to go along with his descriptions of equipment etc used to gain entrance to the underwater city of Atlantis. Lots of technical descriptions, but not always helpful when there is no prior context of knowledge to put the picture in my mind. The story line that goes along with the discovery is interesting.... and sound...more

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Oct 19, 2011 Iya rated it 2 of 5 stars

It feels really weird to rate David Gibbins book as 2*. BUT, i read his other two books (The Tiger Warrior and The Mask of Troy) last summer. Those two were amazing and will rate it as 5*. So when i saw Atlantis at the book shop i bought it at once. The thing is - it's Gibbins' first book and after reading his other two books first, you can really tell. In comparison with his other books Atlantis feels a bit "raw". The plot is (as in all his other books) very interesting, really skillfully cover...more

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Sep 27, 2012 Anita rated it 2 of 5 stars

Although this is a work of fiction (ala Dan Brown / Steve Berry), the plot is centered around facts that are historically sound. There were some archaeological and anthropological information about ancient civilization around the Mediterranean which I found intriguing and painted a more 'complete' picture of ancient history. (These parts of the book, I liked.)

However, a significant part of the book read too much like a textbook, with overly detailed methods of (among others): deciphering ancient...more

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Jun 29, 2012 Trish Wylie rated it 1 of 5 stars

Considering my love of archeology TV Shows like Time Team, my fascination with the myth of Atlantis and my desire when I picked up this book for an adventure, this book should have rated much higher. Unfortunately, like many others who have reviewed it here on Goodreads, I found the techno-babble too much and on the numerous occasions when the author felt the need to tell me everything in excruciating detail found myself skipping over chunks of the text. Ultimately it weighed the story down unne...more

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Aug 23, 2007 Casey rated it 2 of 5 stars

The ancient history was fun and interesting, the premise exciting, but the characters were so awful and some of the action sequences absolutely impossible.

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Jun 17, 2009 وسام الدين محمد rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: treasure-hunting

Interesting plot. But unfortunately, as is David Gibbins, the narrative is a very bored. Technical details may be wonderful if it were in technical or scientific journal, but did not serve in the novel.
I had hoped that David would spend more time in research about Islam, especially since many of his novel’s charterers are Muslim, such as Katya, Aslan, and Aysha Faruk. Improper information about the status of Muslim women may lead to accuse the novel with anti-Islam.
I cannot understand nor forg...more

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Aug 04, 2011 Calle rated it 1 of 5 stars

This is the only novel I've rated withing finishing it. It held my interest for about 100 pages. After another 80 pages or so I was hoping the pace would pick up and halfway through I gave up. It was just endless bad dialogue and detailed desciptions of irrelevant technical details. Gibbins may know archaeology but he couldn't tell a good story to save his life. After giving up trying to enjoy the book I tried to find another use for it and started reading it at night instead of taking a sleepin...more

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Jun 03, 2011 Jeanne rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

J'ai beaucoup aimé toute la théorisation réaliste d'une société atlante, mais pour le reste on a l'impression d'assister à un très mauvais James Bond!

Les éléments scientifiques de ce qui aurait pu être une très bonne alternative à Indiana Jones ou à un Dan Brown sont intéressants et tant qu'on n'attaque pas la partie « les grands méchants terroristes aux moyens disproportionnés nous veulent du mal » toutes les séquences d'aventure sont bien menées.

Bref l'histoire commence très bien et se perd d...more

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Dec 06, 2008 Patrick Gibson rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: testosterone

Lugubrious and sometimes tedious—there are still enough interesting ideas and ‘good parts’ to get you to the end. There are very long sections of history lesson and bogus (I think) mythology, but some of the ideas are interesting. Gibbins is obviously a diver and loves the sport. In his books, he gets carried away with the techno-babble to a point where you will find yourself skipping ahead. As for writing action sequences—no one tops Clive Cussler. Come on . . . you know I’m right. I love archa...more

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Oct 14, 2012 Patrick Hayes added it · review of another edition

This was awful. It was a wannabe Clive Cussler minus any action. A nice idea gone awry. I went into this thinking it would be an action book and I got technobabble that would confuse a die hard Star Trek fan. The characters are as flat as garbage in the street, and the technology is an excuse for the author to present a show and tell experience ad naseum that comes off like a QVC experience run by someone from Wired. Mr. Gibbons, don't get the reader lost in the hardward, get them involved in yo...more

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