Flood Tide

Author - Clive Cussler ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Mass Market Paperback Book item from Pocket Books was reviewed on 3-Nov-2008.

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1) Mass Market Paperback Book Flood Tide by Pocket Books. I´ve read many of Clive Cussler´s novels. In general I enjoy them, even with the meglomaniacs and the machismo attitude which I ignore. I enjoy how Dirk and Al, and Kurt and his side-kick, Joe etc., work together and support each other. I enjoy the history info that is woven in, (intriguing). The underwater gismos--interesting. I enjoy the Geography lessons, usually getting out my atlas at least once per novel. The pace is usually good and holds my attention. The treasures found absorbing. The new tech stuff--if not based on reality, which I think a lot of it is, creative. However this is the first CC novel I´ve read that I´m finding tedious. I find this CC effort lacking in the writing style. The plot and info are good-- however, I am not finding the flow that makes a person want to keep reading. I have to put it down and for example go weed the garden or just become overwhelmed with boredom. I will finish it and will read other of CC´s novels but have found this one long and tedious.¤

2) Mass Market Paperback Book Flood Tide by Pocket Books. OK so this is my 16th Cussler book and this is my lowest review I´ve ever given him. I´m not sure if it´s my taste as a reader changing or if maybe I´ve just read too many Cussler books.

To start off I felt that the book almost started off right in the middle of the story building process. The last book "Shock Wave" was before this book and finished only a few months before this one started. The author reminds you that he´s tired from his last adventure a few times. From the get go you seem that you are in the middle of something without a lot of lead in and not a lot of development in the story. This beginning "action" last for around 100 pages before we get to sit back and get some plot/character development.

On the flip side the ending of the book ends about 100 pages shy of the actual ending. I had to force myself to finish reading after the climax has already happened. Cussler always starts his book with a prologue from the past and the last 100 pages of the book are just a "oh man I guess I should tie that beginning in somewhere" sort of feel to it.

Another problem I had with this book was the dialogue. It had no flow and seemed forced. The force was the author trying to make every character say something witty/sarcastic/funny to every situation and it just didn´t work and seemed very amateurish for an author that I really like.

It took me over two months to finish this one off and actually read three books in between the start and the finish. I just couldn´t pick it up for more than 10-20 pages at a time. I think it had something to do that the story was very standard Dirk Pitt and the Evil Bad Man´s horrible plot just really wasn´t that daunting to me.

Ok so after that review I just have to say that I really like Cussler and his books helped me become a bookworm when I first picked up Inca Gold about 8 or so years ago. After that book I went a picked up all the Pit books that had been written and only have about 3 left out of the 10 or so that I bought that day.¤

3) Mass Market Paperback Book Flood Tide by Pocket Books. I thought this novel was a very entertaining story. The author takes the reader to numerous interesting places, such as the northwest, Mississippi River, the swamps and the Great Lakes. As I traveled to these places he weaved a great story that involved the practice of smuggling illegal aliens, the skill required to navigate the Mississippi river, the Great Lakes, and the skill required to recover sunken treasures. Dirk Pitt brings to the read a lot of action that makes this book a great action/thriller. Highly recommend it.¤

4) Mass Market Paperback Book Flood Tide by Pocket Books. Flood Tide was my first foray into the world of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt. I expected much more from such a prolific writer, but what I found were contrived plot lines, underdeveloped characters, and prose loaded up with cliche phrasing (She stared up at him with pure hatred in her eyes), and way too many adverbs. I get tired of characters saying things caustically, shrugging smugly, and muttering contemptuously (all of which occurred on just one page: 78). I got to chapter 18 before I decided it wasn´t going to get any better and put the book down. Thank God the copy I had came from my public library. At least I didn´t waste any money on it.¤

5) Mass Market Paperback Book Flood Tide by Pocket Books. I enjoyed this Book by Cussler as I have enjoyed the previous novels read. I did have one issue with the story from historical preservationists view point. **SPOILER** I did not like the fact that Cussler reveals the bones of Peking man to the open air due to their age after being submerged 50 years. Pitt acted very uncharacteristically when he orders the anthropologists to unwrap them for all to see. Not a big deal, but just something that bugged me as a historian. Other than that, it was a fairly new plot with interesting insight into problems America faces today with our dealings on the international level and the immigration issue. Cussler may be using his work to express his views on these matters which could detract readers who disagree. I will still read because I enjoy the plot and writing.¤

6) Mass Market Paperback Book Flood Tide by Pocket Books. The #1 New York Times bestseller!

An underwater graveyard in the Pacific Northwest... A mysterious seaport in the bayous of Louisiana... A diabolical plot to destroy America!

Unknown waters, 1948. The Princess Dou Wan, a sea-weary cruise ship covertly seized by Chiang Kai-shek, slams into a devastating storm that tears the hull apart and sends it and a mysterious cargo down into the depths, lost to all searchers for more than fifty years.

Pacific Northwest, 2000. Dirk Pitt® rescues a beautiful undercover immigration agent from Qin Shang, an insatiably greedy smuggler whose vast fortune is made selling Chinese immigrants into slavery around the globe. Shang´s campaign contributions have bought him a collection of powerful U.S.politicians, but Pitt finds the secret behind Shang´s vast and mystifying seaport in the Louisiana bayou to be shockingly sinister. From an adrenaline-pumped race against time and tide up the Mississippi River to a desperate dash to recover Chinese treasures, Dirk Pitt faces one of his most formidable foes -- a madman bent on killing hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children with a catastrophic surge of mass destruction.¤

7) Mass Market Paperback Book Flood Tide by Pocket Books. When a hero whose name never appears in print without a registered trademark symbol beside it sets out on a new adventure, readers should know what to expect: a great deal of derring-do, outlandish adventures, and fantastical scenarios. For Dirk Pitt, reality is an inconsequential construct. What matters is the U.S. National Underwater and Maritime Agency (NUMA) superhero´s unflagging energy, wit, strength, sex appeal, and patriotism. In this tale of a Chinese billionaire who plans to divert the mighty Mississippi in order to expand his illegal smuggling ring, find a treasure lost at sea nearly half a century ago, and, incidentally, split the U.S. into three countries controlled by China, Cussler´s American version of James Bond struggles to save the day. All his trusty sidekicks are here, including Al Giordino, a regular partner in Pitt´s underwater adventures, and Admiral Sandecker, the NUMA commander. This time there´s a beautiful Chinese American INS agent as the love interest, and a mendacious American president, too. Flood Tide is a romp that will tickle Pitt and Cussler´s many fans, as well as readers new to this author who may find themselves stranded on the tarmac or tanning on Caribbean beaches. --Jane Adams¤

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