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Disastrous introduction to James Rollins. I was looking forward to an adventure in Antarctica for a change instead of the usual adventures in jungles. That's why I picked this book. Subterranean is more suited to school kids. The writing was juvenile. Conversations between characters were so boring and clichéd. I couldn't bear this book and DNFed it.I am still willing to give James Rollins another shot in future. Heard good things about Amazonia and the Sigma force series. I forgive him as this
More like Fraggle Rock than a serious adventure bookI’m a big fan of Rollins, when the guy is good he is very good and the entertainment is grand, sadly for me this was not the case but reading the 1-3 star reviews was comforting ( and hilarious) enough to know that I’m not crazy and that this book was a dud to many other readers as well. Subterranean is one of his first early efforts and it has a shape of a story but personally I found it lackluster, confused and not very well planned out. The
Subterranean is an uninspired collection of clichés featuring dull, unlikable characters doing foolish things. Rollins is apparently incapable of writing women, mistaking shrill bitchiness for empowered and simpering helplessness for feminine. Ashley, his main character and "empowered" woman, is driven by the phoned-in motivation of motherhood. Her son exists as a character only to be put in danger so that tension can be artificially heightened, despite the fact that if she cared so much about
I grew up hating novels. Sad but true. As a child, the books I was introduced to (by school) were horribly boring and not relevant to my life at all. I grew up believing that all novels were boring, and by high school, I cringed at the sight of novels. I read comic books throughout high school and college, and it wasn’t until I came across Subterranean (on a flight) that I realized people wrote fun books. So, this is the book, and the author, who got me reading novels and opened my eyes to the p...
I made the mistake of asking my dad for a book recommendation and he recommended this. He has pretty terrible taste in books a lot of the time. Subterranean is a suspenseful book in some sense. But every event that happened was obviously setting up the next event. Every character was a stereotype. That makes for a very predictable suspense novel. You could see the ending of the book from page one. Oh, this person has claustrophobia ... I bet she gets stuck in a tight tunnel and has to overcome h...
I think my favorite part of this trainwreck (after the diamond-softening fungus and the Islamic jihadist who drinks) was Major Michaelson's magical morphing arsenal: every paragraph or so his weapons loadout somehow changes to SOMETHING HE DIDN'T HAVE A MINUTE AGO. Why is a US marine carrying an AK-47? And why on earth would he have sawed the barrel off, thereby ruining the gas tube and making it incapable of firing more than a single shot at a time? And why doesn't he have any 7.62 ammunition f...
So this is by my mum's favourite writer--she has all of his books and frequently tells me about them as she's reading them. When she knew I was looking to read more with an adventure flavour (specifically caves), she gave me some of his.I expected fun and I got it.The book's structure is sound, the pacing is quite good. There are some beautiful turns of phrase when it comes to describing the terrain and exploration. Indeed, when the protagonists feel wonder regarding their surroundings and disco...
This was my second James Rollins being Amazonia. And personally I found myself enjoying this book a lot more then Amazonia. Once again the adventure was great. And James Rollins does such a good job at crafting a really fun story that I really enjoyed reading. While this book was long it never really dragged. Being 530 pages the story really flows. In this book you follow a wide range of characters. The main characters being. Ben and Ashley who are the leaders of the team. You also follow not en...
Oh dear, where to start? I could go with witty remarks:It's Jurassic Park! It's a movie script! It's...SUBTERRANEAN!!!!Or I could liken it to a children's cartoon, in which case it's basically just Scooby Doo...underground. Fred and Daphne break off from the group and hump like cats while the remaining trio try to outsmart the old innkeeper who's dressed as a cave-trotting velociraptor to scare off the tourists. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for you pesky kids! Sad...
