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Title: Exploitive rip-off of Benchley's jaws; Micky Mouse writing
Review: This "book," is a cheap, hideously written thing designed to cash-in on Jaws and Jurassic park. A lack of originality and integrity does not neccesarily make something a bad read. But in the case of "MEG" it is so incredibly awful and weakly done that it's intolerable; you'll want to take a long hot shower and get a refund on your money if you buy it. Steve Alten's agent, if he were truly looking out for him, would have directed him to a writers workshop instead of rushing to market. The manuscript wasn't ready and neither was Alten. The worst thing about it is the publishers did a pretty good job packaging it and have pushed it on an unsuspecting public, hoping to take advantage. But that's all that it is: an empty package. If you want good contemporary sea stories read Peter Benchley, or go back to the all time classics of Joseph Conrad or Herman Melville
