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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780825305153
ISBN number: 0825305152
Label: Beaufort Books, Ltd.
Manufacturer: Beaufort Books, Ltd.
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: February 01, 2008
Publishing house: Beaufort Books, Ltd.
Release Date: February 01, 2008
Sale Popularity Level: 78230
Studio: Beaufort Books, Ltd.
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Josh Cohan, a work-obsessed archaeology professor, has a recurring dream about a great secret. He follows his instincts to the Judean desert, where he makes a fantastic discovery an ancient scroll which seems to have been written by Jesus Christ. The Israeli Antiquities Authority has a claim on the scroll, but another, more sinister organization wants the scroll as well. The Guardians, members of an ancient extremist religious sect, are willing to kill to get what they want.
Josh joins the government-sponsored team of translators who believe the scroll might be genuine, and falls in love with Danielle, the fiery daughter of one of the translators. When a friend turns up dead and Danielle goes missing, Josh realizes that the scroll might be more powerful and controversial than he had ever imagined. Will Josh be able to prevent something terrible from happening to the woman he loves without giving up the most important discovery mankind has ever made?
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I have to say that as much as I hate not finishing a book there was just something about this novel that lost me. The writing was ok, the plot was ok but nothing about it could hold my interest. However since I didn't finish it, I have no knowledge of weather or not it got better. Maybe it did. But it wasn't the type of book I enjoy. Too many similarities to the newly popular speculative history genera that popped up with "The Da Vinci Code."
Two stars for the third of the book that I finished.
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I thought this was a fun, if somewhat forgettable, read. I read it in three days, and then forgot to post a review of it. When it came time to write this review, I actually had to pick up the book and flip through it to remember much about it. What does that say to you? It was simply okay when I read it, but almost completely forgettable. It's not quite as bad as some reviewers make it out to be.
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Obviously I made a bad life choice in reading a lot of other books prior to this one...because pieces of at least 4 that I can think of were thrown in this book, but nothing about this book was thrilling, logical, or reasonable. This book is basically trying to bum a ride on the coattails of The DaVinci Code sucess and make its way without having any sustenance, credibility, or originality. Go read something else, I promise it'l be a better use of your time.
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I hate writing negative reviews, but having received this for "free" under the Amazon Vine progarm feel compelled to do so. The author tried to jumble too many genres together: a combination of the Da Vince Code, Daniel Silva novels, Raiders of the Lost Ark, bad romance novels and mysticism all wrapped in one.
Because of this endeavor to incorporate all these different "models", none of the characters are well-developed and you have no idea why they behave the way they do. Why does Josh fall head over heels with the very first (and really only) woman in the book. (And why is only one significant character female in this day and age?) In addition, this nerdy professor all of a sudden knows better than a member of Mosad how to handle religious fanatics (the word "fanatic" must appear 100 times, in case you missed it) and becomes an expert at handling guns. The ending was predictable (think episode 6 of Star Wars . . .).
I love suspense novels, and have no problem suspending belief when necessary, so that was not the issue. I would not have finished it had I not felt compelled to do so to write a review.
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Ronald Cutler's "The Secret Scroll" was a book I had high hopes about -- it promised historical research, intriguing details about the Bible, archaeology in Judea, and other such things -- and it just didn't deliver on any of that.
Instead, what I got was a slickly-packaged book that read like a movie thriller -- all one level of storytelling, with no depth and very little passion, and without the dialogue (which was actually pretty good), there'd be no story here worth worrying about.
In short, I didn't really care about any of the characters, though I enjoyed most of what they said -- and while I could see this as a decent movie script (one I might even pay to see), it's not a book worth re-reading, nor is it really in my opinion a book worth bothering about. The book didn't convince me that the so-called "expert" really knew any more than I do, and when your main character is not believable (even if you enjoy what he's saying most of the time), that's a non-starter. I also didn't believe the romance and didn't think these characters did much other than waste their time. Even though the action was competently done and I could even see it in my head cinematically, this just didn't work for me at all.
I can see this book working for someone, however, if they're expecting a lot less -- if they expect a fun, summer, pleasant read that they don't have to expend much energy on and don't ever plan on reading again, this may be the book for them.
Two stars.
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