- ISBN13: 9780765324665
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Archaeologist Julius Gabriel has devoted his life to studying the Mayan calendar, a 2,500-year-old enigma that ends abruptly on December 21, 2012. Many believe this foretells the end of the world. Julius is convinced it’s one of many pieces to a puzzle that could lead to the salvation of our species. He has passed on his knowledge to the only person who ever believed his theories—his son Mick.
It is now the fall of 2012 and Mick is still haunted by his fat… More >>
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November 6th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Very interesting book that make You want to pray.
Rating: 3 / 5
November 6th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
I read his last two books because I like giant dinosaur sharks, but this book has nothing cool like that. Mostly religous mumbo jumbo and aliens. Hard to get into the story and kinda weird. If anything two much stuff in it. Alten’s beached himself for good with this one. buy buy.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 6th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
This novel is a pretentious comic book – hardly the “greatest book ever written.” The comparison to “Indiana Jones” is apt and if that’s what you want, this rejected movie script of a thriller is right up your deadend alley. As for the “greatest book I ever read”, well, have you read them all yet, or even more than a few? I’m still partial to Stendahl’s “Red and the Black.” But Alten’s work may be literature to those who view “Joe Dirt” as great cinema and think Denny’s a five star dining experience. Others, beware.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 6th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Its a pretty easy read. The research is quite interesting if you like these sort of sci-fi/archeo reads, but the novel is quite simplistic. The author makes many assumptions just to fit parts of the book together. Mr. Alten has a terrific background for a story and I wish he’d exercised better imagination than what he put out.
Skip it unless you don’t have anything better to read on hand.
Rating: 3 / 5
November 7th, 2009 at 12:45 am
As a science fiction thriller, this novel works fine. The science (mostly archeology in this case) is good enough to allow suspension of disbelief, but ultimately it is not really believable. The existential theology behind the book is superficial, and traditional religion suffers one serious attack when a key character declares that it is motivated by fear and encourages hate (this opinion is never rebutted by other characters). This book contains multiple sexual situations (at times somewhat graphic) and profanity, so middle and high school librarians might want to pass on it.
Rating: 3 / 5