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Oct 09, 2011
Lisa (Harmonybites)
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I think to enjoy this I would have needed to unhook my higher brain functions first. Of course, that might have made reading impossible. If you look at the reviews for the book, the word used the most, even in the positive reviews, is "over the top." It's as if Reilly took every single cliche to ever grace a Steven Segal film then shook it up and poured.
This is primarily set in and around an American Ice Station in Antarctica. One of the harshest, most fascinating settings on earth, and Reilly, ...more
This is primarily set in and around an American Ice Station in Antarctica. One of the harshest, most fascinating settings on earth, and Reilly, ...more
This book is a cross between a superhero comic, a rollercoaster ride and a video game. The pace is, as others have said, frantic, as we lurch from crisis to crisis with our hero and his incredible solutions to impossible situations. And I mean incredible in the true sense of the word: the sheer lack of science in most of the scenarios and the situations that are so ridiculous that they could not be survivable, just keep on coming at you. If you read it fast (and you will, because of the action),
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Feb 02, 2011
Nicole
marked it as to-read
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Bror (Abrar)
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May 03, 2014
Natalie
marked it as to-read
