Night Probe! by Clive Cussler Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Night Probe!
Book Review: Good but not great
Summary: 3 Stars
I was a little bit disappointed that Mr Cussler's research didn't stretch to opening a history book and so he just made things up - changing history in the process.I also thought that Cussler took far to much time and clearly too much enjoyment from Brit bashing, To read it you would think that the UK intelligence agency was incompetent and British soldiers are amateurs. and their vocabulary is 'Frightfully small' but it was 'A jolly good show old boy" Has he even been to Britain - I guess not if he thinks they speak like that!
As for the plot it was far fetched and inplausable - so what! its fiction and it was fun and exciting. I enjoyed the book despite the gripes.
Book Review: If you understand the first 50 pages of the book then go ahe
Summary: 2 Stars
ad and read it. Personally it was very dificult to understand and had a very slow plot. Therefore i hated the book. The only thing that was good was the evelution of the charicters and the accasionall understandable humor. I might try another of Cussler's books, but i just really didn't llike this one. If you can wait out the very slow plot and understand the humor in it then I say it will be a good book but for a guy like me it was a boring waist of my time. Danke schon und Tchuss!Book Review: It's not just about Dirk, at least in this book
Summary: 5 Stars
I've read a number of the Dirk Pitt novels. I had a roommate after college who had a whole bunch of them and at that point I was spending a couple hours a day on the train, so I was going through books very quickly. He let me read the ones he had. That was about 15 years ago, and until recently I hadn't read another Cussler book. After having read what I think was the first of Cussler's Dirk Pitt stories a couple weeks ago, however, I decided to pick up Night Probe.
Wow!
This book hooked me really quick. After only a couple of chapters, every time I put it down I could't wait to pick it back up again. And at that point Dirk had yet to make more than a couple of quick appearances.
Maybe I'm just not remembering things very well, but this book struck me as rather different than the Pitt novels I read before. It certainly doesn't focus nearly as much on Dirk and the other NUMA characters as many of the other books. It was also a less predictable mystery.
I will admit that there were some threads in the story which weren't very well fleshed out and cut off rather abruptly. Even still, I found it a really fun, enjoyable read and would definitely recommend it.
Book Review: Just an observation
Summary: 3 Stars
Ok, So I read this book over 20 years ago and hardly remember the plot, though I did enjoy it ahd every other Dirk Pitt novel, and I have read them all. But that isn't what I want to talk about. I picked this particular book to voice this opinion on because of another review I read here, take a glance at the other reviews and you will know which one I mean.
I am writing this to make a simple request to would be reviewers. If you have read only one book in a long standing series like this please read more of these books (particularly the early ones) so you can make informed remarks and not bore the rest of us with your ignorance. Some little comment made by the protagonist in the 42nd book in a series might leave you scratching your head when in fact everyone else in the world is going "Wow! so thats why Doc shot Jane back in <the 38th book>"
Bottom line, we need coherent opinions here, not the soapbox shouting of self appointed pundits who are obviously clueless.
And if anyone else out there feels like comparing Dirk Pitt to Gonad the Bavarian, go back to your tinkertoys.
Book Review: Lots of excitement
Summary: 5 Stars
Clive Cussler can really spin a great tale. I wouldn't miss any of his books