Title: Bad writing, bad science
Product review: I looked forward to reading this book, thinking I would be along for a well written scientific adventure sweetened with interesting theories. I was sorely disappointed. Mr. Beck's writing style is hackneyed and predictable. He ends every scene with a mini-cliffhanger, lacking the art of following any action for more than a page or two. The characters are paper cutout there solely as pawns in the story. The story itself is painfully predictable, and offers nothing that hasn't been said dozens of times before. His characters jump from one disaster to another, none of which is surprising, and the reader is never in suspense as to whether the main characters live or not, because they always do. The plot is dull and events are not well set up or explained. To make this worse, the science is terrible. Mr. Beck is not a scientist, yet he fills the mouths of scientist in his book with his ridiculous theories.
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