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Trapped in Salt Lake City Airport this spring break on what turned out to be a 12 hour delay for my trip, I desperately scanned the limited offerings on the shelf and settled on this. Enigmalogist! Egypt! Treasure! Evil ghosts! Life after death! Preposterous, but vivid and engaging read.Best money I ever spent in an airport.
I cannot decide. I think I would rather rate this 2.5 stars. I am so disappointed by that ending I really don't know what to think of the entire novel.I, like many, am a Pendergast fan. That means I am a fan of the Lincoln Child AND Douglas Preston novels. I have enjoyed their individual works just fine (really liked The Codex but I may be alone there) although they're collaborative efforts and truly something else. The Third Gate felt like a Preston-Child novel at first. A misleading tone.Fans
Bad writing. Bad/boring plot. Characters that struggle to be even two dimensional. Surprise ending that wasn't. Basically nothing more than derivative crap. Could perhaps be considered a good summer read if you...no. There's no situation where this could be considered a "good" read.
I'm disappointed because The Third Gate ended up being a very different book than the one I was expecting, based on the summary. I expected to be reading about an archeological team plagued by curses after opening a pharaoh's tomb, and instead what I got was an archeological team being plagued by curses while searching for a pharaoh's tomb. At first blush, it's not a big difference, but when the tomb is opened after the halfway point instead of during the first couple of chapters as I expected,
A Lincoln Child book fills the hollow left by the X-Files - this book about Egyptian curses, NDAs and a remote scientific expedition in a deadly swamp is just what I needed 👌
To be honest, I have to read a bunch of books that take place all over the world, which really isn’t my think...or so I thought. I think if I take my time and pick the right books I won’t be as bored as I think I would be. This book really caught me by surprise. It was a mix of a new kind of Indiana Jones in the character of Porter Stone and his band of other archaeologists. They are looking for the tomb of King Narmer who was a mythical person known who joined Upper and Lower Egypt thousands an...
I’m not sure about this one. It had really great elements. I’m not sure they came together as nicely to make this as interesting. At least Logan was more apart of this story.Logan really contradicted himself a lot in this one. Fighting for his right to be there for the opening of the first gate, but he wasn’t there for the opening of other two after all the justifications he made.Rush’s wife begged for his help, yet he really didn’t make a huge effort to do so. A nurse leaving a patient alone to...
Barely 3 stars. I am a HUGE fan of Preston and Child. I read anything either one of these guys puts out (with the exception of the hideous Gideon series)This one held my attention and entertained me. I only wish Child would enlist a decent medical previewer to make these aspects of his writing more believable. I almost didn't make it through the first scene due to some pretty unforgivable errors. It was almost as bad as a line in one of the Pendergast novels when a character's eye was dangling f...
The Third Gate introduces Professor Jeremy Logan, an empathic medieval history professor who moonlights as a supernatural investigator (where does he find the time.)He is invited by Ethan Rush, a brilliant doctor a self-confessed expert in near-death experiences to look into an ancient tomb disovered in 'The Sudd' a horrible uninhabited swamp that forms part of The Nile that hides a deadly secret.Not too surprisingly the tomb is cursed, and its a particularly nasty scary curse. Child combines el...
Interesting but failed to surprise My first book by this author, it engaded my interest quickly. Paced well, it's characters were fascinating as was the premise. Momentum builds as the team makes their way through the three chambers of the tomb. And with each, fascinating discovery is made. The subplot is a bit contrived however and as it's theme is revealed, the ending becomes predictable which in my opinion, ruins the momentum. Regardless, it's well written and engaging.
The Third Gate is a cross between a Dan Brown novel and Raiders of the Lost Ark. A brilliant archaeologist is hot on the trail of the burial site of the first ruler of unified Egypt. The anticipated riches include the first crown of the Egyptian pharaohs, which would cement the archaeologist in the annals of archaeology. The problem is that the tomb is submerged in 50 feet of impenetrable water, muck and mire. The other problem is that the tomb is safeguarded by a curse. Hence, the archaeologist...
3.5 starsThis is not one of those adventures that plops you into a conspiracy or conundrum on the very first page, takes off at warp speed, and doesn't give you a moment's rest until the very last page. This is what is known as a 'slow-burner'. The plot gradually builds up, clues and hints are dropped at random points, and the picture develops chapter by chapter until we reach the final thrilling conclusion.I've read a few of the Pendergast novels Lincoln Child has written with Douglas Preston a...
Quick, fun, brainless read, but I wish Child had adapted his story to the facts, rather than changing the facts to suit his story. Egyptology is fascinating on its own; he doesn't need to have changed the historical rituals, dates, facts, and beliefs of ancient Egypt so *very* much (as he admits he did in the afterword.) Don't read this expecting to actually learn anything true about Egypt or archeological digs.Also the Sudd? In real life it's not a hell on earth. It's a very important, very won...
Disappointing. Felt contrived all along. Main character should have had better back story. The suspense of finding the third gate felt rushed. Very disappointing.
