Raise the Titanic! (Dirk Pitt, #4) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Sep 01, 2012 Barbara ★ rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery-thriller, read-2012, zz-cover-blue

I mostly enjoyed this book though the first 1/3 was rather boring and I kept thinking "WTH is NUMA and Pitt". It focused on the President and his secret defense agency and making their hopeful Sicilian Project a reality. I found that I liked Gene Seagram (though not his wife Dana) and Mel Donner but they were basically politicians with political agendas which were somewhat boring. I though it weird that the President hit on the wife of one of his scientists. WTF was up with that. I think Cussler ...more

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Apr 30, 2022 Beth rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: friend-bookclub, mystery

Yikes. I'm old. This book is from the 1970s, I think, and it hasn't aged well. The men are mostly jerks, the women are bizarre and the gross sexism is rampant. The Russians are the most sympathetic people; the Americans are mostly awful. Dirk Pitt was great, but he was rarely around.

Like, the president was embezzling money to fund his super project (which paid for the whole raising the Titanic thing), and he kept worrying about the evil congresspeople complaining about the whole illegal money th ...more

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Sep 26, 2009 Charlotte (Buried in Books) rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction

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 couldn't help ...more

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