Literature & Fiction
Review:This Modern Library edition is gorgeously printed and well-annotated with invaluable critical notes that will make the work vastly more accessible to the average person while providing useful background to others. I would have preferred it to have included Paradise Regained, however, as I think it's an important companion to the work. Those with more of an interest in literary criticism or who wish to more vigorously digest and dissect the poem would be advised to steer themselves towards the No... Read more
Review:tHIS IS mILTON'S CONTINUATION OF pARADISE lOST. pARADISE IS REGAINED UPON cHRIST'S ENTRANCE ON THE EARTH. iT BEGINS WITH cHRIST;S BAPTISM wHERE sATAN IS PRESENT AND WHO FOLLOWS cHRIST INTO THE DESERT AND TEMPTS HIM TO SHOW HIS POWER BY TURNING THE STONES INTO BREAD. i USED IT IN CONNECTION WITH THE SEASON OF LENT AND THE FORTY DAYS Christ fasted in the desert. Read more
Review:I recently read Atlantis Found and I think Inca Gold is much better. Yes, Pitt is still the superman Indiana Jones and of course him and his almost equally superhuman girlfriend save the day. But this time the bad guy was just someone who had a billion dollar operation in the illegal antique buisness and had nothing to do with nazi's. Now this bad guy I can deal with, and this book I actually finished so hey it is an improvement. This book may be great for some readers, but it is not for me. ... Read more
Review:This book has all the appearance of a first effort. The story of mysterious people living under the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii is highly improbable, and Cussler further bends probability when Pitt is allowed to stumble across not one but two beautiful women, Summer and Adrienne, lying naked on their beds.
Cliches are often evidence of the novice author, and I winced at the following cliche which appears early in the book when Pitt is strolling with a beautiful woman on Waikiki Beach an... Read more
Review:Cussler is again the master of suspense in "Iceberg". There is plenty of action throughout this book and I was always surprised by the next sequence of events. Although most of Cussler's books have some element of historical truth, this one appears to be completely fictional. It is face paced and hard to put down once you start reading it. Most enjoyable reading for any Cussler fan!! Read more
Review:The Dirk Pitt series is great. Enjoyed it right to the end! Cussler has a way of taking the past, making it a little more interesting by building a tale around a single event. For a book written in 1988, it's amazing how close he came to the way events have unfolded in the past few years (middle-east & Egyptian situations)! Read more
Review:Just when I think Cussler has created the most evil character, he out does himself. I cannot believe how vicious his lady Jane Fong was in this.
Pitt has such a knack for being in the right place at the right time, or the wrong time depending on your perspective.
This is a definite page turner. Read more
Review:Typical, fast moving Dirk Pitt novel with a bit more character development and involvement of his kids. You come to realize you just have to hate his villain and are waiting for them to get their just desserts, and it is delicious at the end. Read more
Review:Excellent book
Very exciting from first page to the last. Characters were well developed from the civilian pilot to the villanous airline executive s to the insurance people. Should be made into a great disaster movie. Hard to put down. Read more
Review:Basically any of your adventure novels but in the Russian way. All the brownian mysteries and discoveries - but from the Russian history - with a long line of corpses and possible earth shattering implications... If people only ever find out, blah, blah, blah. The part that's annoying - is continuous addition of unnecessary plot twists. We get it - any one of the main characters is a superman - and we all know - they will prevail at the end, so each plot twist could become a separate novel. ... Read more









