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I had to skip the beginning of this book... I just found myself uninterested in the beginning story set in the past, and impatiently moved on to the "real" story. No doubt the author wouldn't want his readers skipping that part, but I don't think it hurt my reading experience with the book, and in fact I think it improved it. I also skipped the other small sections/paragraphs between book sections, as they were also bits from the past that didn't affect the overall story. What can I say, I'm jus
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Good disaster reading
On the whole, a good novel. It's woven together nicely and the plots all come together in interesting ways. Pros: you get to see the disaster from various POVs, so you aren't mired in one place the whole novel. There's a fairly diverse cast of characters for a novel written in the 90s, and I think they are well written. There's also clearly a lot of historical and technical research written into it. Cons: it's looong. Each chapter begins with a snippet written in the time of ...more
On the whole, a good novel. It's woven together nicely and the plots all come together in interesting ways. Pros: you get to see the disaster from various POVs, so you aren't mired in one place the whole novel. There's a fairly diverse cast of characters for a novel written in the 90s, and I think they are well written. There's also clearly a lot of historical and technical research written into it. Cons: it's looong. Each chapter begins with a snippet written in the time of ...more
What happens with a few magnitude 8 earthquakes hit the heartland of American? This book will paint the picture for you, in gory detail.
Bottom line? The book is about 500 pages too long. I found the background story to be standard fair and not quite as boring as some have found it, but I was itching for the fun to begin. When it did, Williams did a great job telling the story. It was such a catastrophic event, and he described the events in detail. Frankly it was what i was looking for, and I w ...more
Bottom line? The book is about 500 pages too long. I found the background story to be standard fair and not quite as boring as some have found it, but I was itching for the fun to begin. When it did, Williams did a great job telling the story. It was such a catastrophic event, and he described the events in detail. Frankly it was what i was looking for, and I w ...more
It used to be that whenever I read disaster books I could tell if it had been written pre-9/11. Now the standard is pre-Katrina. It's obvious this book was written before the real U.S. government faced a catastrophe on the scale of the earthquake in this book. The governmental response in the book is so good, so competent, that it's actually a little distracting.
Governmental response aside, this was a fun, interesting book. It's a mamoth book, so it takes a commitment, but if you like disaster s ...more
Governmental response aside, this was a fun, interesting book. It's a mamoth book, so it takes a commitment, but if you like disaster s ...more
A bit slow in the beginning, like many disaster novels. It definitely delivers, though.
Jun 19, 2007
Girly
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Jday
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