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Title: Travesty
Review: Good Lord this was a stinker. Poorly conceived, clumsily executed, this book is stocked with the most generic group of explorers and aliens ever assembled. There's the Earnest Blonde, the Deep-Voiced Samuel Jackson Rip-Off, the Thuggish Navy Seals... And as for the Atlanteans, not since 'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians' has there been such an inept portrayal of an alien race. And on top of that, the dialogue is stilted, and the narration reads like it's been translated from a foreign language. But the saddest thing of all is that for all the fantastic setting and exotic background, the 'wonders' that await us in this undersea world are stunningly banal. It's all been done before with so much more ingenuity and class, that one is tempted to suspect that this Brand New Robin Cook Novel is actually a Very Very Old Robin Cook Novel; something he penned when 'The Man From Atlantis' was all the rage, and dusted off after watching Michael Crichton's 'Sphere.'
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