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A review by michaelbtice
Raise the Titanic! by Clive Cussler
2.0
Apparently James Cameron hates this book.
First, he ruins the ability to even think we could raise the Titanic by going to it and showing it's in multiple pieces.
Then he ruins the whole idea of some unobtainable mineral with that unobtanium bullshit in Avatar.
I get it, it's an easy book to hate, but coming out of the first two published Dirk Pitt books, this is almost a breath of fresh air with its only slightly over the top sexism. I mean, at least it doesn't have Dirk raping a woman, after slapping her, when we first meet him or have the rampant homophobia of Dirk pretending to be the most stereotypical hetero idea of what a gay man is like.
Has some good action. Dirk does stuff that could only be done through the power of plot. But I don't think I came here for the realism.
At least reading this one hasn't turned me off Dirk Pitt books for the next couple years.
First, he ruins the ability to even think we could raise the Titanic by going to it and showing it's in multiple pieces.
Then he ruins the whole idea of some unobtainable mineral with that unobtanium bullshit in Avatar.
I get it, it's an easy book to hate, but coming out of the first two published Dirk Pitt books, this is almost a breath of fresh air with its only slightly over the top sexism. I mean, at least it doesn't have Dirk raping a woman, after slapping her, when we first meet him or have the rampant homophobia of Dirk pretending to be the most stereotypical hetero idea of what a gay man is like.
Has some good action. Dirk does stuff that could only be done through the power of plot. But I don't think I came here for the realism.
At least reading this one hasn't turned me off Dirk Pitt books for the next couple years.