Black Wind
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
- Clive Cussler
- Amazon.co.uk, Play.com
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- 9780141020686, (isbndb.com)
In the dark, final days of World War Two, two submarines set out from Japan bearing a deadly virus destined for US cities. But neither boat was heard of again…
Present day: NUMA Special Projects Director Dirk Pitt rescues a team of scientists from a deadly cloud of poison gas in the North West Pacific. Discovering that this was no natural phenomenon, Pitt is quickly on the hunt for a pair of WWII submarines and their deadly cargo. But he soon learns that he’s not the only one searching for the virus: a sinister group of very able terrorists are aiming to relaunch the attack on the US some sixty years later. With time running out, only Dirk Pitt and the NUMA team stand between evil forces and a terrifying assault on America’s west coast…
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Clive Cussler / Dirk Pitt novels and there seems to be a mountain of them. This is the first I’ve read and although it was good, I wasn’t especially gripped by it. About two and a half months in the reading, it has taken me a considerable lot longer to finish this than either the Da Vinci Code or I am Legend, despite being a meer 70 pages longer than the prior. That fact alone is a testiment to how this story failed to reel me in.
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I am Legend
Friday, August 24th, 2007
- Richard Matheson
- Amazon.co.uk, Play.com
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- 9781857988093, (isbndb.com)
“Robert Neville is the last living man on earth … but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville’s blood. By day he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How long can one man survive like this?”
This is the first fictional book I have bought since leaving primary school. After seeing the trailer for the upcoming Hollywood take on this 1954 novel, I thought I would try getting back in to reading. The reviews of the book have been pretty good, although I am yet to really sink my teeth in to it after the first 30 pages or so.
The story is about one man, Robert Neville, who appears to be the only man in New York who hasn’t turned in to a flesh eating zombie and his struggle to fight them off. Personally I think it would be a cake walk… I mean they only come out at night and don’t seem to be too forceful when it comes to attempted breaking and entering.
Will report more when I am finished, or just before the movie comes out, whichever comes first.
Finished!
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