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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780425195451
ISBN number: 0425195457
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 368
Printing Date: May 25, 2004
Publishing house: Berkley
Sale Popularity Level: 32447
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A ruthless corporation is about to take command of the seas.
This is a mission for Kurt Austin and the NUMA team.
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Like most of Cussler's work, this is a great read, and even better listen. I've been known to sit in my car after traveling, just to hear the last of a chapter. This was one of those.
My only gripe was the format of the C D, it only has one trak per disc. If you don't have a fast forward feature on your player, you have to listen over again to get to where you stopped. I've never run into this before.
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Rarely have I read a novel with such abundant use of the word `swarthy'. This is the type of novel that should be so bad it's funny, but it isn't. It's just silly. An albino genius madman is intent on destroying the world's fish stocks by releasing killer mutant salmon into the wild, and it's up to our philosophy-reading, antique pistol-collecting, ever charming, always handsome hero Kurt Austin and his NUMA team to save the day. The story is just goofy. The dialogue is chock full of snappy one liners that are staples in action films: When someone is eaten by a mutant fish, one of the characters quips that `he has gone to pieces'.
The very first Cussler novel I read was the recently released `The Chase'. I thought The Chase was pretty good - not great - but pretty good. Then I read Polar Shift, which was pretty silly, but not terrible. But White Death is awful. I think a novel like this would work better if it made fun of itself a little more. But it doesn't. It's too preposterous to be a good thriller, and takes itself too seriously to allow the reader to enjoy it as `over-the-top' campy fun.
White Death is not as bad as Patterson's `London Bridges' (arguably the worst novel ever published), but not by much.
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and I like the Hardy Boys. This book is very light and easy to read. Frank and Joe Hardy had their cast of ever-loyal supporting characters, and so do Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala. Even the descriptions and development of the characters have a "Hardy Boys" feel.
"White Death" is a great book to read if you need to get out of the real world for moment and just enjoy some adventurous fiction.
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Clive Cussler was born in 1931 and grew up in Alhambra, California. He attended Pasadena City College before joining the Air Force. He went on to a successful advertising career, winning many national honours for his copywriting. He has also explored the deserts of the American Southwest in search of lost gold mines, dived in isolated lakes in the Rocky Mountains looking for lost aircraft and hunted under the sea for shipwrecks of historic significance, discovering and identifying more than sixty. He is married with three children, and divides his time between Colorado and Arizona. His credentials as a best selling author cannot be doubted and he has a large `stable' of best selling adventure novels.
Yes some of Clive Cussler's books are a little far fetched, to say the least, but surely that is not a negaative thing. Most people read to get away from their everyday life and yes, sometimes to go into a little world of their own. If an adventure story is a little far fetched, so what, it is all part of the enjoyment, after all the books are novels and not meant to be taken to seriously.
White Death is another adventure novel featuring Kurt Austin, leader of the NUMA Special Assignments Team and starts with a confrontation between an environmentalist group and a Danish cruiser, not an earth shattering confrontation in itself, but something that is going to escalate into something far more serious . . .
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This might have been better presented as a comic book; the characters are all cartoon like. I found myself rooting for the villain and vaguely hoping that the protagonists would expire in the horrible manner they were supposed to. Did Cussler really expect the reader to believe the premise of any aspect of this story? A few times I actually dropped the book out of my hands in disbelief.
- On a few minutes notice a rescue submarine is lifted by helicopter to an airport where both are loaded into a plane and flown to a new location where Danish sailors are rescued only a few hours after sinking. The main character, Austin, cuts through the hull and says "Anyone call for a taxi?".
- Austin and one of the villains engage in a shootout in Washington D.C. while driving dogsleds in the summer and failing to attract any police attention whatsoever.
- A marine biologist and her husband, both working as government bureaucrats, have a Lear jet at their disposal, which they get to in a car that likely costs more than twice their salaries. They fly back and forth to Canada in it carrying loaded firearms.
- The villain, rather than use a car or plane, seems to prefer travelling around at night in a hydrogen filled Graf Zepellin that he found crashed in the arctic. Oh, the humanity!
Dialogue is completely pompous; everyone talks to each other in a very formal way, almost like they're in a Shakespeare play. The characters are all superlative in their abilities and have no flaws or idiosyncracies. This whole thing is just loaded with cliches and hackneyed descriptions.
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