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A poor example of Cussler’s capabilities Clive Cussler’s LOST EMPIRE is a sadly derivative and poorly executed example of the genre of globe-trotting, death-defying, puzzle solving, history revising, super sleuth “thrillers spawned by Dan Brown’s wildly popular modern day publishing phenomenon THE D Leggi tutto

Synopsis: Adventurers Sam and Remi Fargo stumble across an old bell while vacationing in Zanzibar. They soon discover that it was part of the Civil War battleship Shenandoah , which had been sold to Zanzibar's sultan and then disappeared. Unfortunately, someone else wants that bell bad enough to kill Leggi tutto

Why do I keep coming back to the Fargo adventures? Because this needs to happen in my life. TOMB RAIDER X UNCHARTED FOREVER!!! Until my fangirl dreams are fulfilled I am going to be content with the second best thing - Clive Cussler's husband/wife treasure-hunting duo on a track to a new adventure. Th Leggi tutto

This book game me my recent fix for history and adventure. I took one star off because it also gave me jet lag....ha ha ha!

Connections between the Civil War and the Aztecs is an intriguing idea but by and large it is a fairly standard by-the-numbers historical fiction. It has Cussler’s name on but not much else to put it above similar books is the genre.

Back in the day I vaguely remember reading Raise The 'Titanic'! –yet I recall hardly any details of it or the hero Dirk Pitt. Fast forward to today and I have now finished “Lost Empire” by the same author, which left me bemused to say the least. The heroes are husband and wife team Sam and Remi Farg Leggi tutto

There are quite a few issues I see with this novel, but overall, The Lost Empire is a serious improvement compared with Spartan Gold , the first book in this series. I'm torn apart between giving it credit for the changes in good or penalizing it for the remaining issues. The good: 1) The kind of detai Leggi tutto

Hani bazen, örneğin bir Pazar günü yapacak birşeyiniz yoktur da televizyonu açtığınızda ilginizi çeken bir filmle karşılaşırsınız, dur biraz bakayım derken ilginizi çeker, gününüzü geçirtir ama televizyonu kapattığınızda hiçbirşey ifade etmez ya. Kayıp İmparatorluk tam o ayar bir kitap. Lara Croft v Leggi tutto