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This was my first Rollins book and I found the story extremely enjoyable. As soon as I finished it I went out and bought every other book he has written. Readers beware - I found that Deep Fathom was very different from Subterannean, Excavation, and Amazonia, going more for the science fiction genre than these other titles. I have read all of Lincoln Child/Douglas Preston and Rollins is a comparable if not equal story teller. If you like Rollins, I would also recommend Child/Preston, Greg Donegan, Matthew Reilley, Robert Doherty. NOTE: Doherty's Area 51 series has a slightly different genre but its close enough to recommend to people who enjoy. Donegan/Doherty are pen names for the same author, the former used for the Atlantis series.
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This was my first Rollins book and I found the story extremely enjoyable. As soon as I finished it I went out and bought every other book he has written. Readers beware - I found that Deep Fathom was very different from Subterannean, Excavation, and Amazonia, going more for the science fiction genre than these other titles. I have read all of Lincoln Child/Douglas Preston and Rollins is a comparable if not equal story teller. If you like Rollins, I would also recommend Child/Preston, Greg Donegan, Matthew Reilley, Robert Doherty. NOTE: Doherty's Area 51 series has a slightly different genre but its close enough to recommend to people who enjoy. Donegan/Doherty are pen names for the same author, the former used for the Atlantis series.
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This was my first Rollins book and I found the story extremely enjoyable. As soon as I finished it I went out and bought every other book he has written. Readers beware - I found that Deep Fathom was very different from Subterannean, Excavation, and Amazonia, going more for the science fiction genre than these other titles. I have read all of Lincoln Child/Douglas Preston and Rollins is a comparable if not equal story teller. If you like Rollins, I would also recommend Child/Preston, Greg Donegan, Matthew Reilley, Robert Doherty. NOTE: Doherty's Area 51 series has a slightly different genre but its close enough to recommend to people who enjoy. Donegan/Doherty are pen names for the same author, the former used for the Atlantis series.
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I originally picked this book up in a bookstore on a whim. I regularly read the works of only three authors: Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (co-authors of seven books) and Michael Chrichton. Every other attempt I've made to find an author that doesn't bore me has failed. So it was with James Rollins.
The plot of this book leans much further towards science-fantasy than science-fiction. While that alone is not a bad thing, the... characterizations are. It takes very strong characters to make a plot like this really come to life, and this author doesn't even come close. A reviewer below described them as "...TV-Movie-Of-The-Week characters..." and that is right on the money. The characters are right out of every bad movie you've ever seen. Their dialogue is laughable, and their development is non-existant. The plot was interesting, but coupled with the poor characters it felt like watching a bad soap-opera where you'd like to know what's next, but you'd rather not suffer through the tedium to find out. When I finished the book I felt like something had been stolen from me (time maybe).
Every time I click on a Preston/Child page it urges you to buy this book with it (where as when you go to buy this book it urges you to buy another Rollins book). Do Preston and Child have only one book? If you want to read some of the greatest fiction ever written, I strongly urge you to pick up one of the seven Preston/Child books (Relic, Mount Dragon, Reliquery, Riptide, Thunderhead, The Ice Limit or The Cabinet of Curiosities) instead of this.
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This is a good adventure story. Sunken pyramids off Okinawa rise from the sea during a series of massive quakes. What caused the quakes and how to prevent future a future world cataclysm are the jist of the story. This was a great read while campimg out this week
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