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Meg
by Steve Alten
MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD! READ AT YER OWN PERIL!
Ahoy there mateys! I listened to this one on audiobook and knew it would be cheesy. I mean it’s about a giant megalodon (a 34 – 59 ft. shark) that has survived in the Marina Trench and gets out and starts eating people. But I enjoyed Jaws and so thought I would give this one a whirl. The first chapter with an epic battle between a shark and a dinosaur set the tone. But the believability just got worse and worse. The protagonist, Jonas, was a Marty Stu. He gets the young hot girl at the end. The stuff about the meg was repetitive and got boring. There was a period in the middle where nothing happens. Then there is a fake ending. And the actual ending was so laughable that it just cemented this as a horrible book. SPOILER – The shark eats the submarine. Jonas gets out of the submarine, cuts through the stomach, manages to climb into the heart, stabs the meg in the heart to make it die, climbs back in the submarine, and somehow rides it out of the mouth of the dying shark. Oh and ends up in the arms of hot young student who magically happens to find him in the big, wide ocean to live happily ever after with him. This was the revised and expanded edition where the author has both a foreward and an afterward where he talks about how this book is based in science. This book was purchased by school science departments for the realism according to the author. I hope not. I hear the movie sucks too. So this one walks the plank and I hope all copies get eaten by giant hungry sharks! It does make me laugh thinking about it so there is that.
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Ahoy there mateys! I listened to this one on audiobook and knew it would be cheesy. I mean it’s about a giant megalodon (a 34 – 59 ft. shark) that has survived in the Marina Trench and gets out and starts eating people. But I enjoyed Jaws and so thought I would give this one a whirl. The first chapter with an epic battle between a shark and a dinosaur set the tone. But the believability just got worse and worse. The protagonist, Jonas, was a Marty Stu. He gets the young hot girl at the end. The stuff about the meg was repetitive and got boring. There was a period in the middle where nothing happens. Then there is a fake ending. And the actual ending was so laughable that it just cemented this as a horrible book. SPOILER – The shark eats the submarine. Jonas gets out of the submarine, cuts through the stomach, manages to climb into the heart, stabs the meg in the heart to make it die, climbs back in the submarine, and somehow rides it out of the mouth of the dying shark. Oh and ends up in the arms of hot young student who magically happens to find him in the big, wide ocean to live happily ever after with him. This was the revised and expanded edition where the author has both a foreward and an afterward where he talks about how this book is based in science. This book was purchased by school science departments for the realism according to the author. I hope not. I hear the movie sucks too. So this one walks the plank and I hope all copies get eaten by giant hungry sharks! It does make me laugh thinking about it so there is that.
Check out me other reviews at https://thecaptainsquartersblog.wordpress.com/