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Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down by Clive Cussler
3.0
A “Who’s Who” of contemporary thriller authors
You’d think with a line-up of authors like this one and an editor of the status of Clive Cussler, that THRILLER 2 would have no problem living up to its sub-title: STORIES YOU JUST CAN’T PUT DOWN. But the sad reality was quite different. Although the anthology was workmanlike and the stories, considered on an individual basis, were reasonably interesting, the collection as a whole came nowhere near gripping or compelling. In fact, at the mid-way point, I considered setting it aside as a DNF and simply not bothering.
Weakest links in the chain (both at 2*s) were:
REMAKING – Blake Crouch
THE LAMENTED – Lawrence Light
Cream of the crop (at 5*s) were:
GHOST WRITER – Gary Braver
THROUGH A VEIL DARKLY – Kathleen Antrim
My opinion only, of course, and, as always, your opinion may differ completely.
Paul Weiss
You’d think with a line-up of authors like this one and an editor of the status of Clive Cussler, that THRILLER 2 would have no problem living up to its sub-title: STORIES YOU JUST CAN’T PUT DOWN. But the sad reality was quite different. Although the anthology was workmanlike and the stories, considered on an individual basis, were reasonably interesting, the collection as a whole came nowhere near gripping or compelling. In fact, at the mid-way point, I considered setting it aside as a DNF and simply not bothering.
Weakest links in the chain (both at 2*s) were:
REMAKING – Blake Crouch
THE LAMENTED – Lawrence Light
Cream of the crop (at 5*s) were:
GHOST WRITER – Gary Braver
THROUGH A VEIL DARKLY – Kathleen Antrim
My opinion only, of course, and, as always, your opinion may differ completely.
Paul Weiss