Valhalla Rising
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Sabotage, conspiracy and piracy above and not more than the waves finds Dirk Pitt plunged into his most treacherous adventure yet. When the luxury cruise liner Emerald Dolphin – powered by a revolutionary new propulsion system – becomes a raging inferno and sinks mysteriously, it is lucky that NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt is on hand to rescue the passengers and investigate the tragedy. Sifting through the undersea wreckage for signs of foul play, Pitt is unaware of powerful, dark forces playing their hand against him. Forced to fight for his life – and persons of friends and colleagues – against ever-more ruthless enemies from a dark organization, Pitt finds himself caught between the secrets of the past and the intrigues of the future. A future that will hold the world to ransom…Amazon.com Review
Dirk Pitt, Clive Cussler’s aging but still potent superhero, returns in the 16th adventure in this well loved series about the director of special projects for the National Underwater Maritime Administration (NUMA). Pitt’s NUMA survey ship happens to be in the vicinity when the world’s newest and largest cruise ship founders and sinks, giving Pitt the chance to stage the daring rescue of nearly 2,000 passengers. Among persons who perish is a legendary scientist whose revolutionary engines powered the ship to her watery grave; while Pitt is unable to save Dr. Egan, he rescues his gorgeous daughter Kelly from the sea, and later from a murder attempt aboard the rescue vessel.
Pitt and his trusty pal Al Giordino track the sinking to the boardroom door of a multinational conglomerate called Cerberus, whose evil CEO has designs on the world’s oil supply. He’ll do anything to keep Egan’s advanced engines and secret formula for frictionless oil off the market–even sabotage another vessel, this time a luxury passenger submarine. By the time our heroes have foiled the mastermind’s disreputable plots, they’ve also uncovered the being of a effective submarine nearly a century before one really existed–certain proof of a Viking landing on the Hudson River–and the remains of the British sailor who inspired Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo. A levelheaded page-turner that even features a cameo appearance by the leader himself, Valhalla Rising snaps, crackles, and pops with Cussler’s usual brio. –Jane Adams
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My wife and son like Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt adventures for their fun,campy premises and prose. Yes, there is a lot of fun in this book and some imagination. How about a plane dogfight in Midtown Manhattan (pre-911), tales about the Vikings, and Captain Nemo?
Now here’s the problems:
1. Clive Cussler hasn’t met an adjective or adverb he doesn’t like. Too corny, too bombastic, too “too.” I reflect he’s too much in like with his writing. Tell the tale, Clive, you don’t have to clarify every emotion.
2. In an action scene, must the leader make each character clarify a dilemma lacking variation? I got it the first time how it seemed impossible technologically to open the hatch to rescue the submarine. But it’s repeated at least four times. Yikes!
4. I listened to the unabridged tapes. As my wife points out, when reading a book, you can breeze through repetitions and fluff. Not so when you have a narrator that makes every man sound like a self-satisfied and dull narcissist.
5. Nobody has sex! But golly, do we know how each woman (or girl) was breathing heavily, the color of her hair and eyes, how much she is attracted to Dirk. The reading public does not need another fully depicted sex scene, but at least one adult has got to have sex. And it’s no honest adage that Al likes all kinds of gals.
6. Having Clive appear in each novel does not equal Alfred Hitchcock’s self-effacing appearance in many of his movies. Clive does more than that, helping out in some nifty fashion. It comes across as smug, phonily humble, and self-congratulatory.
7. I will spoil one unbelievable line, confirmed by one of the heroes, when it appears that the enemy has foiled them again. It went something like this: They caught us like infants wetting our diapers! Eeow!
8. My wife learned in the book that the villian’s name is rarely spelled the same. Thank goodness he dies in the end so we don’t have to worry any longer about that.
Mr. Cussler can be a excellent writer. I am objecting to his carelessness: too many adverbs and adjectives, stupid descriptions, redundancies, and poor editing. On the belated TV show, MST-3000, at the end of one really trashy sci-fi movie, in which one could see the zippers on the costumes of the monsters, the robots and the host point out the artlessness of the moviemakers, by breaking into the song, “They Just Didn’t Care?” Mr. Cussler and his publisher and editor, I wish you could just reach a small privileged and care a small more. Excellent writing is rewriting. Sometimes you have to throw out the wet-diapered infant.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I took this book as a “talking book” on CD on a road trip. I really wanted it to be excellent because we had an 8 hour drive through the desert. Got to the last CD, and just could not take it anymore. Ejected the CD and never did end it. Trite and Hardy Boys-ish.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Is in this book. God, it’s dreadful.
Cussler’s main character, Dirk Pitts, is the perfect superhero. Smart, strong, rich, dedicated, meticulous with so much time on his hands he can personally restore vintage aircraft, head a special projects division of a super-secret government agency, travel the world, renovate new equipment and carry on several successful relationships – - but he’s permanently in such a hasten that he accomplishes everything at the last minute!
Aargh!
No flaws . . . he even, singlehandedly, saved a plane full of disabled children from a Red Baron copycat in a dogfight over New York. Blah!
America is permanently right, the hero is permanently perfect, and the military can do no incorrect.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
No doubting the popularity of Clive and Dirk, judging by some 150 reviews here. I find this page turner enjoyable, if you don’t have expectations of anything additional than formula writing on a cartoon level.
BUT one major, comical, error Clive makes appears in the first pages, where he describes a cavern being hollowed out twenty BILLION years ago.
As the latest [2002] Hubble derived estimations of the age of the universe are 12-14 billion years, and the solar system is generally acknowledged to be less than five billion years ancient, this is rather a howler. Unless Clive knows something we don’t.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
The early Clive Cussler/Dirk Pitt novels were fun and exciting. I loved them. Valhalla Rising was BORING. Why does Clive Cussler have to become a character in his own book. He must have an ego the size of the Grand Gap. This was the most disappointing Cussler novel to date. This book could be marked “SOS”. Same ancient stuff. It’s as though he place a template over one of the older novels, added some new characters and changed the plot a small. I’m tired of Dirk Pitt. I’m tired of Clive Cussler. The back take in of the book shows Cussler with all the antique cars he owns. Who cares?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5