Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror: Amazon.de: Steven Alten: Englische Bücher

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Who would believe the old ploy can still hook 'em? Doubleday, that's who. Twenty-two years ago, the house published Peter Benchley's Jaws, which Steven Spielberg turned into his career-launching movie, which spawned film sequels aplenty, which spurred Benchley to try the trick again (Beast [1991], in which the bogey from the brine was a humongous squid) and again (White Shark [1994], in which the monster turned out to be a Nazi!). And now . . . this: an exaggeration--in scale and carnage--of all the above, with a Carcharodon megalodon (a really BIG shark) doing the romping and chomping. Supposedly 100,000 years extinct, the meg, as everybody in the book calls it, is actually, as our hero Jonas Taylor (sort of a paleo-ichthyological Indiana Jones) suspects, still alurk at the bottom of the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific, where the heat of volcanic vents maintains a livable warmth, and six miles of lethally cold water above that environment keep the 60-foot fish from the surface. Keep it, that is, until early in this yarn that seems more novelization of a screenplay than novel. The action is nonstop, the characters are all pumped and touchy (even the women suffer from testosterone overload), and the dialogue is risibly cliched. But is it a hoot, anyway? Yep, and guess what? Disney's filming it. Ray Olson -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

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As Jaws meets Jurassic Park, Meg (short for megladon) brings us a 60-foot, 20-ton prehistoric shark with a nine-foot-wide mouth that is likely to gobble up bestseller lists, as well as reappear in 1998 as a summer blockbuster. In rather characterless prose, debut novelist Alten's well-groomed story rockets like a pre-edited filmscript from event to event. But the author's love of his title character is clear, as he keeps his Lord and Master of the Sea, a female Carcharodon Megalodon, frequently front and center. Seven years ago, Professor Jonas Taylor, a paleontologist and deep-sea submersible pilot, first saw such a shark, thought to be extinct, while diving more than seven miles down in the Marianas Trench. During the Ice Age, members of the species, it turns out, took refuge in the hot thermals on the ocean bottom. Lethally cold water above has kept from them resurfacing. Jonas's first encounter cost two lives, and has burdened him with profound guilt. He goes back down to the abyss anyway, accompanied by Masao Tanaka, the owner of a huge aquarium on the California coast. When a male Megalodon gets entrapped in steel cables in the trench, he's attacked by a pregnant female; she follows the male to the surface, surviving the journey, and discovers a warm new world, filled with varied, easy, hot-blooded prey. Clearly, the shark is an ecological disaster, especially when she gives birth to three more of her kind. Taylor and Tanaka, however, don't want to destroy the shark but rather to harness her drugged body and haul it into confinement. This means some vastly dangerous close work with her once she's located, with Taylor hovering about the monster in a submersible that becomes the instrument of an utterly amazing climax. A female offspring in captivity at story's end guarantees a sequel. Weightless characters on a choppy sea--but hellishly riveting. (First printing of 250,000; film rights to Disney; Literary Guild main selection) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

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The invicible 19. September 2000

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I have read both Meg and The Trench and i think that they are just totally awesome the megalodon is totally uinstoppable i can imagine it going after whales it was aweomse as the alibino giant megalodon rammed the submarine and made it sink and when it easily killed that bull humpback whale. I think that this book should be read by everybody to all those who are shark fans. In the Trench Angel the gigantic 72 foot long 61,000 pound giant megalodon is even more sacry than the first megalodon i read about how it got into that fight with that sperm whale named mad max and easily shredding him all EXTINCT MEG AND THE TRENCH are my favorite books I WILL rad these books as many times as i want to . IF THIS MEGALOdon is totally powerful and the most fearful creature to ever liv in the ocean then i think not only this shark is king of the ocean and also i think that it should be a guardian then rather a killer machine of the oceans of the world. I also have lots of replica teeth of megalodon and including a video

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What a Page Turner! 31. Juli 2000

Von "ericakb"

I just finished reading Meg last night. What a great book! I just couldn't put it down. it's the first book I have read in a while and I finished it in 3 days. For me with a 1-1/2 year old running around - that's pretty quick. Alten really makes you see and fear the predator. I won't go into the plot too much - don't want to ruin it. But I'll simply say this is a great book. I enjoyed it & can't wait to read the sequel, The Trench.

"Toothless" Meg 28. Juli 2000

One-dimensional characters you're glad to see eaten, questionable science and events so far-fetched they defy the laws of physics and common sense. A waste of time.

An incredibly bad book

Nearly everything about this book is incredible: the "story" is really insultingly stupid, the "science" behind the story is virtually non-existing, the... Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 3. Juli 2001 ver�ffentlicht

I can't help feeling that I've heard this all before...

This novel was definately a disappointment. One can only recycle the same story so many times before it becomes a bland mess. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 24. Juli 2000 von Peter Layshock

Gripping!

This book was both average and excellent. I wanted to give it only three stars because of the anemic supporting character development and the sometimes weak plot progression. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 21. Juli 2000 von Christopher Ware

MEG BY STEVE ALTEN

Whilst traveling i`ve read quite a few books,Meg was my fifteenth in three months and all i can say is wow,i`ve read books quickly but never in less then sixteen hours,i found... Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 4. Juli 2000 von PAUL GRAHAM

Watch out for that shark!

This book surprised me. I was actually somewhat entertained although my imagination had to reach in some parts....cutting the shark's heart with a tooth from the inside? Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 24. Juni 2000 von "miss_caprice"

Go Meg Go!

once in a while you come across a book that draws you in from the first word and doesn't let you go until the last. Meg, is such a book. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 4. Juni 2000 von "feeler"

Not JAWS , but good enough to enjoy.

The book is not a classic , but it hits a spot in your reading karma . You read the book and you feel satisfied that you read it . Mr. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 10. Mai 2000 ver�ffentlicht

a decent shark book

this was a pretty good suspense book.even more fascinating is the fact that these 60 foot sharks once existed.the book is informative when it needs to and intense. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 8. April 2000 von avdr

The Deep Terror Inside Yourself.

WOW, Meg was the greatest book I have ever read. Steve Alten used great description of the charactors and the setting. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 28. Januar 2000 von Alec McDaniel

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