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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780330452113
ISBN number: 0330452118
Label: Pan Books
Manufacturer: Pan Books
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: December 07, 2007
Publishing house: Pan Books
Sale Popularity Level: 84626
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This is an awful book, very poorly written. To give you just one example, the main character is supposed to be an astronomy professor from Cambridge Univerity. She is flying over Peru and sees "lines in the ground and a monkey", she had never heard of the Nazca lines, she asks "what are they?" to her companion. Give me a break! Even a 10 y/o knows something about the Nazca lines. This book is just idiotic.
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The whole plot reminds a Power Ranger movie sugarcoated with romantic connection between two main characters. Some grains of historical facts faded to almost nothing in comparison to the childish struggle between good and evil. I would call this book a reall disappoitment
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Young Oxford professor Catherine Donovan finds herself chasing around the globe trying to save the earth from certain destruction after her best friend, Professor Kent, is murdered in Peru. The authorities call it suicide, but it's so unlike the professor, she is easily pulled into an investigation into what he was researching just before his death. Also drawn into the globe-hopping melee is James Rutherford, an expert on world mythology who had met the dead professor at a dinner party. Catherine and James's quest takes them very first to Peru and then on to the sands of Egypt, as they follow the clues in a set of old maps Professor Kent left behind. Catherine and James must run for their lives, as well, when two different enemies would do them in as they uncover the secrets of the ancients.
This book sounds like a decent adventure but falls far short of the mark. While the story moved along well enough to keep the pages turning, in the eleventh hour the whole thing simply fell apart. The entire adventure was completely pointless and the villains were downright laughable. There were also a number of glaring inconsistencies, such as two penny-watching academics who find a taxicab extravagant but think nothing of jetting off to very first Peru and then Egypt on a whim. For a pair of learned individuals, they were woefully ignorant of a number of historical details any casual cable TV-watcher would know, as well. The whole effort had a rather careless, juvenile feel which would have been excusable had the ending delivered anything but head-scratching disappointment. The author simply gave up rather than follow through on several promises, and the endeavor at irony at the end went over like a lump of lead. I might be able to recommend this book to a juvenile audience, but only after a long line of more worthy titles.
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From page one the book grabs you and you are lost to the wonderful book of Pyramid. The ation adventure is all you could ask for.
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Entertaining, engrossing action-adventure! The author does a good job of maintaining a fast pace and holding your interest, while furnishing a wealth of information about the relationships among ancient codes, mathematics, astronomy, geology, ancient civilizations (mostly Egyptian and Mayan) and mythology. The place/monument descriptions in Peru and Egypt are especially good. My only criticism is that the central characters (Drs. Catherine Donovan, American astronomer, and James Rutherford, British classicist, Oxford fellow and don, respectively), are somewhat two-dimensional. The story is in the same genre as the DaVinci code, which I also found to have less than fully-developed protagonists. I enjoyed "Pyramid" very much and recommend it highly for those who enjoy this type of book. I'm looking forward to the subsequent book by the author. (Apparently the only edition is published in Britain, which explains the price.) See www.amazon.co.uk for dozens more reviews.
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