Post by Vaughan on Oct 16, 2009 14:41:08 GMT
"At a remote US Ice Station in Antartica, a team of scientists has made an amazing discovery. They have found something unbelievable buried deep below the surface - trapped within a layer of ice 400 million years old.
Something made of metal.............."
If after reading that you're not channeling The Thing from Another World - or the re-imagining - John Carpenter's The Thing, then you're probably not much of sci-fi buff.
Me? I was all over it.
The only snag was - the book thundered in at 689 pages. Which is no chump change. But if it's good - it's good, right?
But now - sadly, I must look for a definition of "good".
I don't like to include spoilers, for obvious reasons. In this case though I feel compelled to do so in order to ward off others, like me, who thought they were getting into something monstrous.
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Rather than have you each go through 689 pages to find out, let me reveal all. There is NO spaceship under the ice. In fact, it's a jet. A US military experimental craft left behind ten years before. Nothing more.
So what IS this book about? Well, basically it's a Die Hard movie. There's a hero who does the incredible. There are shoot-outs, maulings fro killer whales, giant Bull Seals who eat people, Hovercraft chases, jumps off cliffs etc. Through in some hand to hand combat, fragmentation grenades, cross bows, and an unexplained murder and you have........ Bruce Willis.
But there's no aliens. Not one.
And it's stupid. Like that plane that has been buried in four hundred million year old ice (never explained by the way). They FLY AWAY IN IT. And that's not even the most stupid thing that goes on. This book is dumb, and never let logic get in the way. Just as the films are.
The good? It reads real easy. In fact, I read it in a single sitting. Yup, all 689 pages. So it's a "page turner" alright.
Just not in the remotest way of interest to horror/sci-fi fans, that's all.
Recommended? No. Not even close. Sorry.
Something made of metal.............."
If after reading that you're not channeling The Thing from Another World - or the re-imagining - John Carpenter's The Thing, then you're probably not much of sci-fi buff.
Me? I was all over it.
The only snag was - the book thundered in at 689 pages. Which is no chump change. But if it's good - it's good, right?
But now - sadly, I must look for a definition of "good".
I don't like to include spoilers, for obvious reasons. In this case though I feel compelled to do so in order to ward off others, like me, who thought they were getting into something monstrous.
::::::::::::SPOILER:::::::::::::
Rather than have you each go through 689 pages to find out, let me reveal all. There is NO spaceship under the ice. In fact, it's a jet. A US military experimental craft left behind ten years before. Nothing more.
So what IS this book about? Well, basically it's a Die Hard movie. There's a hero who does the incredible. There are shoot-outs, maulings fro killer whales, giant Bull Seals who eat people, Hovercraft chases, jumps off cliffs etc. Through in some hand to hand combat, fragmentation grenades, cross bows, and an unexplained murder and you have........ Bruce Willis.
But there's no aliens. Not one.
And it's stupid. Like that plane that has been buried in four hundred million year old ice (never explained by the way). They FLY AWAY IN IT. And that's not even the most stupid thing that goes on. This book is dumb, and never let logic get in the way. Just as the films are.
The good? It reads real easy. In fact, I read it in a single sitting. Yup, all 689 pages. So it's a "page turner" alright.
Just not in the remotest way of interest to horror/sci-fi fans, that's all.
Recommended? No. Not even close. Sorry.