Meg

Book Details

Library

Author

Steve Alten

Category

Thriller

Editor

Reference #

Contributor

Location

Translator

Status

Publisher

Owner

Country

Personal

Language

Read it

Yes

Year Published

Date Read

12/02/2006

ISBN

0747219931

Personal Rating

 2/10

LCCN

Purchase

Edition

Purchase Date

10/02/2006

Printing

Acquired from 

Marlborough Library

Binding

Hardcover

Price

$1.00

Pages

308

Value

$0.00

Overview

Seven miles beneath an isolated section of the Pacific Ocean, where hydrothermal vents spew 700 degree mineral-rich steam into the sea, a prehistoric predator thrives. In that pitch black, hellish abyss the largest and most ferocious killer in the history of the animal kingdom has survived for one hundred million years. The sixty-foot, twenty-ton ancestor of the Great White shark is called Megalodon - and she haunts just one man.

Professor Jonas Taylor, palaeontologist and former deep-sea submarine pilot, has spent years lecturing and writing about Meg, trying to forget the mission that convinced him of her existence. On a top-secret diver into the ocean's deepest canyons, Jonas was the only man to escape the teen-foot jaws of an ancient monster so vicious that she kept Tyrannosaurus Rex out of the water.

Traumatised by the experience and dismissed by most as mentally unstable, even Jonas himself has begun to doubt his own eyes. But now, new evidence has come to light to suggest that Meg may indeed have survived the cooling of the world's oceans by migrating to the warm layer at the bottom of the ocean abyss.

Meg is about to surface. When she does, nothing and no one is going to safe, and Jonas must face his greatest fear once again.

Comment

This book reads like a made-for-tv movie. There are highly emotional parts, with no real background to them, and there are extremely unsettling graphical parts (being a person who likes whales in general, parts of this book actually made me feel sick, as the giant shark went off on a feeding frenzy of humpback).

I read this book because I thought it would be a quick read for the weekend. The storyline had promise, but failed to deliver.