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Title: Not Clive Cussler
Review: I was looking for a Cussler-esque adventure for my recent vacation and read a few reviews of DuBrul's books. They seemed mostly positive, so I bought a couple thinking they would be good for long airplane flights, afternoons in the sun, etc.Sadly, both Charon's Landing and Vulcan's Forge were mind-numbingly slow, the action sequences were nothing special, the characters were wooden stereotypes, the heroes were no better than the villains, etc. There really was nothing to hold my attention from chapter to chapter. Mercer (the hero) acts like a pubescent boy looking down the top of every blouse and up the slit of every skirt, and DuBrul can't seem to write a decent piece of dialogue between a man and a woman.Ultimately, I read both books, but it took the better part of a month to get through them (I usually read a Clive Cussler novel in about 2 days) because I kept putting them down and picking up other books that held more promise.I won't be buying any more DuBrul.
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