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The President's secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on an extremely rare radioactive element--and Dirk Pi...
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Aug 23, 2011
Jennifer
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I think I was in high school when Kate Winslet stood on the bow of the Titanic and let Leonardo DiCaprio take her in his arms as their doomed love affair began onscreen. I saw not only what the Titanic looked like from its final resting place on the bottom of the sea, but also James Cameron's lovingly crafted vision of the Titanic when she sailed on her maiden voyage. This said, Clive Cussler's original imagining of the raising of the Titanic was breathtaking. It was not hard to believe in a wor
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Jan 11, 2012
Mars
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Dirk Pitt, the special projects director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, A.K.A. NUMA. He's not-quite-clairvoyant-but-guesses-with-uncanny-accuracy, is super-good (in the alignment sense), is quite the ladies' man, and risks his life at the least provocation.
The writing is pretty good, the action is actiony, the whole thing is not particularly feminist-friendly but then what is, and the entertainment level is pretty high.
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The writing is pretty good, the action is actiony, the whole thing is not particularly feminist-friendly but then what is, and the entertainment level is pretty high.
But each book has at least one non-negligi More...
Oct 29, 2011
Morgan
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The United States and Soviet Russia both want the same thing: Byzantium, and there is only one place they can get it, by raising the R.M.S Titanic. This story follows a group of government men from both Soviet Russia and the United States, the former led by Prevlov and the latter by Gene Seagram and the renowned Dirk Pitt, as they struggle with each other over who really gets the Byzantium and the Titanic. The National Underwater and Marine Agency and the top-secret Meta Section are the founde
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Feb 01, 2010
Rob
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Aug 22, 2011
David
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An early Clive Cussler, Dirk Pitt adventure extravaganza that was first published in 1976 (and later made into a movie). A breakout novel for Cussler at the time, on a subject that was held with such awe. It must be remembered that when this novel was first published, the Titanic had yet to be located. In fact, locating and/or salvaging anything from the Titanic was though to be akin to travelling to the moon.
As the years passed, the subsequent locating, archiving, exhibitions and b More...
As the years passed, the subsequent locating, archiving, exhibitions and b More...
Mar 16, 2011
wally
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something in the air maybe...some titles coming to me now, after joining goodreads last septempter 2010...ha ha ha!
black sunday, by harris...he of the silence of the lambs fame.
and now this one. i must have read it when it came out, recall enjoying the story, immensely, and at the time i didn't know cussler from someone named custer who filled cones at the d-q.
wonder what the chronology on the titanic is...not the sinking, silly, the search, the finding, More...
black sunday, by harris...he of the silence of the lambs fame.
and now this one. i must have read it when it came out, recall enjoying the story, immensely, and at the time i didn't know cussler from someone named custer who filled cones at the d-q.
wonder what the chronology on the titanic is...not the sinking, silly, the search, the finding, More...
Jun 27, 2010
Steve
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I saw the movie "Raise the Titanic" way back when I was a little kid and had a fondness for the movie (which I suspect was a really, really bad movie given that it disappeared quickly and has never been seen since). Mostly I remember the Titanic surfacing and thinking "wow, that was cool." So I thought the book would be fun, too.
It's not. It's awful-terrible-horrible even by my standards for thrillers, which can be pretty good even when they're pretty bad. Now, I More...
It's not. It's awful-terrible-horrible even by my standards for thrillers, which can be pretty good even when they're pretty bad. Now, I More...
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Nov 02, 2011
Todd
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When I was younger I enjoyed reading the James Bond books and Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt is sort of like James Bond in the Navy. He's got the attitude and charisma with the ladies anyway. Raise the Titanic is an exciting read for fans of the Titanic. The story is written to happen in 1988 but was actually written in the 70s.
There is valuable material buried in a vault inside the Titanic that the United States wants and spends hundreds of millions to have a team of specialists led by NU More...
There is valuable material buried in a vault inside the Titanic that the United States wants and spends hundreds of millions to have a team of specialists led by NU More...
Aug 18, 2011
Michael
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I had always had a deep fascination as to what had happened to the Titanic. And when this book was written in 1977, the question was still... where was it??? Was it in one piece? Upside down on the ocean floor in some deep sea ravine? Today thanks to Robert Ballard, many of our questions have finally been answered.
The crux of this story is that something of national security is discovered to have been locked in the Titanic's safe, and is still there... if we can find it! But the More...
The crux of this story is that something of national security is discovered to have been locked in the Titanic's safe, and is still there... if we can find it! But the More...
Jun 08, 2010
Karolinde (Kari)
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Why do action heroes spend half of their time seducing the women in the story? It's an annoying genre trait and Dirk Pitt has it.
I'm a Titanic freak like so many others, FYI didn't Titanic the movie though, and that's what drew me to this book. The book was written before the Titanic was found so Cussler didn't know that it was broken in two pieces and the grand staircase was eaten away. So putting that aside, it's actually a pretty exciting read. Swearing is actually minimal, sh More...
I'm a Titanic freak like so many others, FYI didn't Titanic the movie though, and that's what drew me to this book. The book was written before the Titanic was found so Cussler didn't know that it was broken in two pieces and the grand staircase was eaten away. So putting that aside, it's actually a pretty exciting read. Swearing is actually minimal, sh More...
Aug 04, 2011
Evan
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Definite 4.0 / 5.0
I think this is the most fully engrossing Dirk Pitt novel yet, which is odd because there is a large amount of the book that doesn't have Dirk as much as the previous three books in the series.
This book also is very high on the amazing factor since it came out roughly 10 years before people ACTUALLY saw the Titanic with underwater submersibles / cameras. Granted, some things described in the novel are not as they were discovered, but there are a good amount of things that, as More...
I think this is the most fully engrossing Dirk Pitt novel yet, which is odd because there is a large amount of the book that doesn't have Dirk as much as the previous three books in the series.
This book also is very high on the amazing factor since it came out roughly 10 years before people ACTUALLY saw the Titanic with underwater submersibles / cameras. Granted, some things described in the novel are not as they were discovered, but there are a good amount of things that, as More...
May 11, 2009
Janet
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Poor Giordino. He always gets shot, beaten up, tortured, or any combination of the above. He got it in the hand this time. I think the man would set off a metal detector. Most of the books I read are by women authors and the style differences never fail to amuse me. Cussler has a cut-and-dried casual approach to violence. Pitt did this, this and this, broke his skull open and smashed his fingers. In all probability a woman author would read something like this: Dirk screamed in agony as his skul
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Jan 18, 2011
Bart
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One of my brother-in-laws gave this to me for Christmas. It's one of his favorites from his favorite author.
This novel is classic Dirk Pitt. There are exotic locales to explore, authority figures in desperate need of telling off, women in need of bedding, Soviet agents in need of killing, murderers to be caught, and archeological artifacts to be recovered. Only one man can handle all of these tasks (James Bond was not so good at the artifact recovering), Dirk Pitt.
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This novel is classic Dirk Pitt. There are exotic locales to explore, authority figures in desperate need of telling off, women in need of bedding, Soviet agents in need of killing, murderers to be caught, and archeological artifacts to be recovered. Only one man can handle all of these tasks (James Bond was not so good at the artifact recovering), Dirk Pitt.
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Sep 26, 2009
Charlotte (Buried in Books)
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Read this several years ago (think it was after seeing the movie of Sahara), vaguely remember seeing bits of the movie many years ago.
Its and incredibly quick read - I loved this book, it was fast moving and a great idea, remembering that this book was written quite a few years before the wreck of the Titanic was discovered. Dirk Pitt is a great character, the promise of which made me commit the cardinal sin - I'm incredibly OCD about reading books in a series in order - but I just More...
Its and incredibly quick read - I loved this book, it was fast moving and a great idea, remembering that this book was written quite a few years before the wreck of the Titanic was discovered. Dirk Pitt is a great character, the promise of which made me commit the cardinal sin - I'm incredibly OCD about reading books in a series in order - but I just More...
Nov 09, 2010
Ginny
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It was really fun experiencing the excitement and suspense of this adventure! It's my first Dirk Pitt book. He's a caricature hero who seems able to pull anything off, even when the "experts" have failed. I agree with the reviewer who observed that Pitt's sex scene was superfluous, and I would add that it was just plain silly of Cussler to include it. It wasn't offensive: it just served no purpose except to interrupt the suspense. I will, however disregard this judgment lapse on C
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Jan 20, 2012
Buddy
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This book was a real page turner for me as soon as it got to the Titanic! The detail that was provided by Clive Cussler about the Titanic, before it was actually discovered in real life, was quite amazing!
This book had it all: espionage, sabotage, Navy Seals, NUMA (National.Underwater.Marine.Agency), Russians, byzantium (an extremely rare radioactive element), and Major Dirk Pitt! I found myself tensing up, laughing, and cheering out loud as I was reading this book.
A great re More...
This book had it all: espionage, sabotage, Navy Seals, NUMA (National.Underwater.Marine.Agency), Russians, byzantium (an extremely rare radioactive element), and Major Dirk Pitt! I found myself tensing up, laughing, and cheering out loud as I was reading this book.
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Mar 19, 2011
Valynn
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Oh, the Clive Cussler books I've read - only because my dad likes to buy them and then I pick them up at home. They're kind of formulaic - always some mysterious adventure with suave Dirk Pitt in the center, always a beautiful woman who sleeps with Pitt in the end (not many details given, thank goodness). They're the kind of book you'd buy for your husband to read on the beach during vacation (not that my husband ever wants to sit and read on the beach, he'd rather be parasailing or something)
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Feb 06, 2011
Sabrina
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It took me a long time to finish this book, mainly because it also took a long time for the story to get going. Once it did, I did enjoy this book, but the 1st third of the book was a real struggle. The part where they raise Titanic was well written, and when Cussler described how she finally arrived in New York, it actually brought a tear to my eyes. Of course, there are some small discrepancies, but they are due to the fact that this book was written before the wreck was found in 1985. For
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Mar 27, 2010
smalls
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Just started this one. It is one of my dad's books and it sounded interesting. Wonder if I will be the next Dirk Pitt fan? We will see.
OK, I have just another chapter before I am done with this book, but I think I can post my review.
This book caught me in the beginning right away! Then the next few chapters were a little drudging for me, but once they finally got into the miners story, the book picked up again and it was hard to put down. It was only a few chapters More...
OK, I have just another chapter before I am done with this book, but I think I can post my review.
This book caught me in the beginning right away! Then the next few chapters were a little drudging for me, but once they finally got into the miners story, the book picked up again and it was hard to put down. It was only a few chapters More...
Mar 13, 2008
Eric
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Aug 07, 2008
John
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Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt books. I read them all. By and large, they're awful.
But--and this is a big deal--they're awful in a glitzy, over the top way that really is fun. Raise the Titanic is probably the best of the lot from a literary standpoint because it is, relatively speaking, restrained. Cussler's books are literary equivalent of the lousy James Bond movies of the 70s, where he went into outer space, fought againt giants with metal teeth that bit people to death, etc. But More...
But--and this is a big deal--they're awful in a glitzy, over the top way that really is fun. Raise the Titanic is probably the best of the lot from a literary standpoint because it is, relatively speaking, restrained. Cussler's books are literary equivalent of the lousy James Bond movies of the 70s, where he went into outer space, fought againt giants with metal teeth that bit people to death, etc. But More...
Jul 14, 2009
Tiffany
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This is one of my favorite Clive Cussler books. When I first learned of Clive this was the book that was suggested to me but I did not have a copy available to me so I picked up the next best thing "Sahara". I was hooked! It took me almost 4 years to find a copy of "Raise the Titanic" and I'm glad I did. This is one of Clive's best pieces. When I was growing up I had dreams of seeing the Titanic and dreams of the ship being lifted from the watery depths. Nowadays we know bett
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Feb 06, 2012
Angel
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Leer una historia de Dirk Pitt es garantía de acción y aventura. Lo interesante de este libro es que fue escrito en 1975 (10 años antes del verdadero descubrimiento del RMS Titanic) y la narración de como fue descubierto es bastante acertada. Como siempre Cussler, nos enreda entre varias historias entrelazadas que se van integrando de tal forma al pasar las páginas que el final es completamente inesperado.
Read a story of Dirk Pitt is a guarantee of action and adventure. The interestin More...
Read a story of Dirk Pitt is a guarantee of action and adventure. The interestin More...
Dec 17, 2009
Jaime
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This is the best Dirk Pitt novel I’ve read yet! It was written 9 years before the Titanic was actually discovered by Robert Ballard (whose JASON organization I actually interned for once upon a time), so it was interesting to see how Cussler envisioned it (especially since he didn’t yet know that the ship was in two pieces). I’m used to there being some big bad evil conglomerate in Cussler’s books, but the biggest, baddest evil in this book was the weather!
The only thing I would dock More...
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Dec 13, 2008
Philip
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Yet another book I read in my early teens. A milestone in many ways. When I was 8 or 9 I was allowed to stay up late to watch "A night to remember". That film sparked my interest in the Titanic and this book exploded it. As an adventure thriller it is excellent and at the age of 12 it was so exciting. Cussler's first 6 or 7 books are ok, after that he gets wildly fantastic and is best avoided. Vixen 03 was pretty good too.
Jun 18, 2008
Kevin
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A top secret scientific sector of the U.S. Government has developed a new defense system that would destroy ballistic missiles before they come anywhere near the U.S. The only problem is that this system needs a rare element known as byzanium to operate it. The only known mass amount of byzanium ore was mined by the U.S. on Russian soil back in 1912 and transported back to the states via the HMS Titanic. Of course, the ship sunk, so the U.S. Government must now find and raise the ship to make th
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Mar 05, 2010
Annette
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This was one of Clive Cussler's earliest books (#3 I believe), and it was a really good political intrigue and adventure story. Where it lost me was the fact that because it was written before the Titanic was actually discovered, it lost a lot of its impact for me. In the story, a huge salvage effort is underway in raising the Titanic. It goes into great detail explaining the condition and status of the ship, that she's in one piece and in very good condition considering she has been under 12
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Feb 06, 2012
Marten
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While this is the fourth Dirk Pitt novel, it was the first I read (thanks Dad!) and kept me reading. Clearly, as I believe that I have now read some 25 or so books written or co-written by Clive Cussler, this one hooked me right away. I went through this novel in a few days over the summer as a 16 year-old and rarely have missed another Pitt adventure.
Really fun, not too serious read.
Really fun, not too serious read.
Feb 19, 2010
Heather
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i think this was a great book but unfortunately I've already read two others of his and the plot was eclipsed by that fact. Even so, I was still riveted. I like that he wrote of the Titanic before it was discovered and I found that fascinating. I think its my love for history fashioned into narrative that keeps me reading his novels; even though its like watching the same movie movie but with different set dressings. Its also interesting to see his treatment and general ideas surrounding female
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Aug 25, 2009
BillyCruise
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Wow! Book #3 of the Cusslers for me and this one did not disappoint. Very enjoyable, the book itself was written I think 7 years before the Titanic was even discovered. Without giving much away it's a little battle between the Americans and Russians over a special interest in the Titanic. Overall a great staple in the Cussler franchise of books. I most definitely recommend you read it.
