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A review by vermidian
Raise The Titanic! by Clive Cussler
1.0
You know, I was really hoping I'd be less disappointed in this book than the second book, and I guess I was to an extent. But the toxic masculinity is still there, even if it only reared it's ugly head a few times. I think this book was greatly helped by the fact that the main character, Dirk Pitt, was only in about half the book. It made it more bearable for me since he's such a total douchebag. I'm just not at all impressed with him. They keep saying he's good at his job, but I'm waiting to see the actual evidence of it. All he seems to be good at is treating women like trash.
I'd pay good money for a book where all the women he's bedded and discarded and insulted casually behind their backs come back to fight him. The man is scum.
As far as the adventure of it goes, I had some fairly minor complaints. The mystery of it was great - the Titanic is such a beloved topic by so many. As a line of events in a story, it's a pretty interesting thing. However, with all the frankly bad science and inaccuracies about the Titanic - including information that was well known about the condition of the Titanic that was conveniently ignored by Cussler - it really killed it for me. Plus, with the USA now free of the fear of Nuclear Missile attacks at the end of the book, I feel like there should be an arms race from hell. However, it likely will never get mentioned because it's such a stupidly overpowered defense system.
Between the poor treatment of his sole female character as essentially a sexy lamp for people to obsess over and the lack of actual realism in the science, this really just isn't that impressive as a book. I don't recommend it. I especially don't recommend it if you're a nerd about the Titanic.
I'd pay good money for a book where all the women he's bedded and discarded and insulted casually behind their backs come back to fight him. The man is scum.
As far as the adventure of it goes, I had some fairly minor complaints. The mystery of it was great - the Titanic is such a beloved topic by so many. As a line of events in a story, it's a pretty interesting thing. However, with all the frankly bad science and inaccuracies about the Titanic - including information that was well known about the condition of the Titanic that was conveniently ignored by Cussler - it really killed it for me. Plus, with the USA now free of the fear of Nuclear Missile attacks at the end of the book, I feel like there should be an arms race from hell. However, it likely will never get mentioned because it's such a stupidly overpowered defense system.
Between the poor treatment of his sole female character as essentially a sexy lamp for people to obsess over and the lack of actual realism in the science, this really just isn't that impressive as a book. I don't recommend it. I especially don't recommend it if you're a nerd about the Titanic.