The Loch
by Steve Alten
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Author: Steve AltenEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-05-01
ISBN: 0976165902
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Tsunami Books
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Book Review: "Are We There Yet?"
Summary: 4 Stars
OK, this book starts out in the Sargasso Sea where our hero, Zach Wallace is hunting for giant squid in a submersible. An accident (involving something bigger than said Squid) happens which kills the pilot. This screws up Zach big-time (he also goes mental & his career gets screwed); it brings back the night-terrors which he used to have as a kid in the wilds of the Loch.
A promising start . . . but it bogs down in what I consider a interminable History Lesson in Scottish politics. There was enough of it that I actually wandered to our laundry hamper (where I keep some new paperbacks)--started Koontz' FRANKENSTEIN & finished it before I returned to THE LOCH! Do I really want to know about Picts and Jacobites? And the Diary of Sir Adam Wallace which pops up every 60 pages or so? This diary would probably have engaged me had it not been for the archaic-looking bold font and the Scottish "accent" in which it was written. I completely ignored it. The plot doesn't really need it. Alten should steer clear of history and just get his reader to SKULL ISLAND immediately.
The great part about this book is the Scottish characters' dour sense of humor. Zach himself; his egomaniacal (but in a good way) dad-- Angus;his 300-pound friend-- True; Brandy--True's slutty sister and Crabbit--a Scot who walks along the shores of the loch wearing chain mail.
And I must admit that I had no problem understanding the heavy "Scottish" burrs. Alten mastered it perfectly. And when the plot picked up . . . maybe halfway through or a little earlier, this book builds a perfectly plausible case for the existense of a monster in Loch Ness. Alten should write to ANIMAL PLANET and tell them how to catch Nessie.
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