Greece Hotels Travel - Pyramid
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List Price: $10.23
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Manufacturer: Pan Books
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780330452113
ISBN: 0330452118
Label: Pan Books
Manufacturer: Pan Books
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2007-12-07
Publisher: Pan Books
Studio: Pan Books
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In case I don't return. Eureka 40 10 4 400 30 9 30 70 100 5 200 30 10 40 1 80 5 100 400 40 10 50 10 200 300 100 8 70 9 1 50 300 10 20 800 10 300 10 200 0051172543672. An eminent Oxford professor is murdered but the authorities are calling it a suicide. Beautiful young don Catherine Donovan refuses to believe the official verdict especially after she receives a cryptic note sent just before the professor's death, along with a collection of priceless antique maps. Teaming up with classicist James Rutherford, she embarks on a journey which takes them from the dreaming spires of Oxford to the ancient wonders of Peru and Egypt. With a shadowy organization determined to stop them, can Catherine and James unlock the mystery of the ancients before they become the killers' next victims? And can it really be possible that these clues are warning of an imminent cataclysm one that puts even more than their lives in peril?
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Awful
Comment: This is an awful book, very poorly written. To give you just one example, the main character is supposed to be an astronomy professor from Cambridge Univerity. She is flying over Peru and sees "lines in the ground and a monkey", she had never heard of the Nazca lines, she asks "what are they?" to her companion. Give me a break! Even a 10 y/o knows something about the Nazca lines. This book is just idiotic.
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Summary: pre-teen plot
Comment: The whole plot reminds a Power Ranger movie sugarcoated with romantic connection between two main characters. Some grains of historical facts faded to almost nothing in comparison to the childish struggle between good and evil. I would call this book a reall disappoitment
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Summary: Terrible Disappointment
Comment: Young Oxford professor Catherine Donovan finds herself chasing around the globe trying to save the earth from certain destruction after her best friend, Professor Kent, is murdered in Peru. The authorities call it suicide, but it's so unlike the professor, she is easily pulled into an investigation into what he was researching just before his death. Also drawn into the globe-hopping melee is James Rutherford, an expert on world mythology who had met the dead professor at a dinner party. Catherine and James's quest takes them first to Peru and then on to the sands of Egypt, as they follow the clues in a set of old maps Professor Kent left behind. Catherine and James must run for their lives, as well, when two different enemies would do them in as they uncover the secrets of the ancients.
This book sounds like a decent adventure but falls far short of the mark. While the story moved along well enough to keep the pages turning, in the eleventh hour the whole thing simply fell apart. The entire adventure was completely pointless and the villains were downright laughable. There were also a number of glaring inconsistencies, such as two penny-watching academics who find a taxicab extravagant but think nothing of jetting off to first Peru and then Egypt on a whim. For a pair of learned individuals, they were woefully ignorant of a number of historical details any casual cable TV-watcher would know, as well. The whole effort had a rather careless, juvenile feel which would have been excusable had the ending delivered anything but head-scratching disappointment. The author simply gave up rather than follow through on several promises, and the attempt at irony at the end went over like a lump of lead. I might be able to recommend this book to a juvenile audience, but only after a long line of more worthy titles.
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Summary: great read-fast can not put the book down
Comment: From page one the book grabs you and you are lost to the wonderful book of Pyramid. The ation adventure is all you could ask for.
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Summary: Fun read!
Comment: Entertaining, engrossing action-adventure! The author does a good job of maintaining a fast pace and holding your interest, while furnishing a wealth of information about the relationships among ancient codes, mathematics, astronomy, geology, ancient civilizations (mostly Egyptian and Mayan) and mythology. The place/monument descriptions in Peru and Egypt are especially good. My only criticism is that the central characters (Drs. Catherine Donovan, American astronomer, and James Rutherford, British classicist, Oxford fellow and don, respectively), are somewhat two-dimensional. The story is in the same genre as the DaVinci code, which I also found to have less than fully-developed protagonists. I enjoyed "Pyramid" very much and recommend it highly for those who enjoy this type of book. I'm looking forward to the next book by the author. (Apparently the only edition is published in Britain, which explains the price.) See www.amazon.co.uk for dozens more reviews.
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