false <![CDATA[The Descent]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173023057m/239065.jpg 239065 8 In a high Himalayan cave, among the death pits of Bosnia, in a newly excavated Java temple, Long's characters find out to their terror that humanity is not alone--that, as we have always really known, horned and vicious humanoids lurk in vast caverns beneath our feet. This audacious remaking of the old hollow-earth plot takes us, in no short order, to the new world regime that follows the genocidal harrowing of Hell by heavily armed, high-tech American forces. An ambitious tycoon sends an expedition of scientists, including a beautiful nun linguist and a hideously tattooed commando former prisoner of Hell, ever deeper into the unknown, among surviving, savage, horned tribes and the vast citadels of the civilizations that fell beneath the earth before ours arose. A conspiracy of scholars pursues the identity of the being known as Satan, coming up with unpalatable truths about the origins of human culture and the identity of the Turin Shroud, and are picked off one by bloody one. Long rehabilitates, madly, the novel of adventures among lost peoples--occasional clumsiness and promises of paranoid revelations on which he cannot entirely deliver fail to diminish the real achievement here; this feels like a story we have always known and dreaded. <I>--Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk</I> 231578 1999 The Descent total:612|5:233|4:203|3:122|2:42|1:12| 612 2439 787 138 4 8 false false Wed Feb 06 13:15:49 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 13:15:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Sat Oct 13 10:08:31 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 16 22:34:12 -0800 2008
I should have taken this as a sign.

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Unfortunately the promise the book has early on goes nowhere and the end of the book is so disappointing and anti-climactic that I had to check if my copy...more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Jul 15 05:57:19 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 06:54:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false true Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 15:13:16 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 15:20:18 -0700 2009
It starts off as a horror novel, but then it spends 90% of the book going into scientific details regarding cave exploring, maping the land underneath the ocean floor and ancient civilizations.

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What I appreciated most about this book was the number of themes, the main them...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 20:06:03 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 20:15:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 26 04:33:08 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 04:38:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Aug 10 16:27:35 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 06:33:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Sep 12 13:21:14 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 13:41:36 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 13:21:14 -0700 2008 1
But the book went in such unsusp...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 17:03:57 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 09:30:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 04 06:17:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 01 14:25:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Tue Feb 12 09:25:20 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 15 04:49:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 12:49:16 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 12:51:34 -0700 2007
But that's the end of the good.

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The Descent by Jeff Long is probably the scariest book that I have ever read. I have long been a Jeff Long fan, and have read most every novel he has written--starting with Angels of Light, the boo...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 30 18:11:03 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 18:28:09 -0800 2007
That's the basic premise of this "...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 01 14:37:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 14:37:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 07 17:01:31 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 17:02:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=239065