MEG: Primal Waters

Mass Market Paperback, 463 sidor

På English

Publicerades 3 maj 2005 av Forge Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-7653-4785-5

From book jacket: On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal kingdom. The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor is haunted by what he's sure he saw but still can't prove exists--Carcharodon megalodon, the massive mother of the great white shark. The average prehistoric Meg weighs in at twenty tons and could tear apart a Tyrannosaurus rex in seconds. Written off as a crackpot suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Taylor refuses to forget the depths that nearly cost him his life. With a Ph.D. in paleontology under his belt, Taylor spends years theorizing, lecturing, and writing about the possibility that Meg still feeds at the deepest levels of the sea. But it takes an old friend in need to get him to return to the water, and a hotshot female …

From book jacket: On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal kingdom. The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor is haunted by what he's sure he saw but still can't prove exists--Carcharodon megalodon, the massive mother of the great white shark. The average prehistoric Meg weighs in at twenty tons and could tear apart a Tyrannosaurus rex in seconds. Written off as a crackpot suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Taylor refuses to forget the depths that nearly cost him his life. With a Ph.D. in paleontology under his belt, Taylor spends years theorizing, lecturing, and writing about the possibility that Meg still feeds at the deepest levels of the sea. But it takes an old friend in need to get him to return to the water, and a hotshot female submarine pilot to dare him back into a high-tech miniature sub. Diving deeper than he ever has before, Taylor will face terror like he's never imagined, and what he finds could turn the tides bloody red until the end of time.

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Björn recenserade MEG: A Novel of Deep Terror (Meg) (Meg) av Steve Alten

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It's fascinating how supposedly tough adult characters can sound like emo teenagers one second and like biology textbooks the next. It's almost as if Steve Alten cribbed every section about marine biology straight from some other source and added dialogue tags. Of course, we know he didn't because he occasionally throws in some ideas that are completely off the wall or just plain wrong.

Still, I like how everyone is obsessed by giant ancient sharks even before we have the slightest hint that there might be giant ancient sharks around. It just keeps coming up in casual conversation. That's foresight, innit.

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Oh noes! If they don't stop the giant shark, it could disrupt the whales' migratory pattern! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Anything but that!

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They're hunting the shark now! It's so exciting! Despite the prose!

"The bifocal night glasses penetrated the dark, improving light amplification by using a coating of gallium …

It's fascinating how supposedly tough adult characters can sound like emo teenagers one second and like biology textbooks the next. It's almost as if Steve Alten cribbed every section about marine biology straight from some other source and added dialogue tags. Of course, we know he didn't because he occasionally throws in some ideas that are completely off the wall or just plain wrong.

Still, I like how everyone is obsessed by giant ancient sharks even before we have the slightest hint that there might be giant ancient sharks around. It just keeps coming up in casual conversation. That's foresight, innit.

--

Oh noes! If they don't stop the giant shark, it could disrupt the whales' migratory pattern! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Anything but that!

--

They're hunting the shark now! It's so exciting! Despite the prose!

"The bifocal night glasses penetrated the dark, improving light amplification by using a coating of gallium arsenide on the photocathode revealing the quickly moving behemoths as they rose up and down along the surface of the Pacific."

Or in other words, "the night glasses made it easy to see the whales."

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Mental note: If you ever find yourself trying to capture a giant shark, only get in the water with it if the narrator has established you as a thoroughly Nice Guy. Sharks eat bad people. Also, if one of your relatives or friends suddenly shows up without ever having been mentioned before, tell them to stay on land. (Not that they'll be safe on land either, I guess.)

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The prose is awful, the "scientific" bits read as if someone just ripped a few pages out of Marine Biology For Dummies and inserted into the text, the characters are so one-dimensional it's no wonder the shark never manages to eat her fill of them, and the plot... what plot? But it's a SHARK THAT EATS SUBMARINES AND FLIES THROUGH THE AIR TO SNATCH PEOPLE OFF BOATS. I laugh, and I laugh, and I laugh, and I love the book to little bitty pieces.

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