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Loading... The Alexandria Link (2007)by Steve Berry, Steve Berry
None.  KatLowe | Apr 3, 2013 |  I struggled my way to page 196 of this Dan Brown wanna be. It's unnecessarily complex and contains a series of totally un-engaging and unbelievable characters. It's not enough to have a religiously inspired intrigue: you have to have a plot and some characters to care about if you want people to read 527 pages. (  ) bsquaredinoz | Mar 31, 2013 | I abandoned this book at about the 60% mark. As far as I can tell, there wasn't anything glaringly wrong with the book. Political intrigue just isn't my cuppa tea. At the latest twist in the twist that twisted the twist, I decided that I really didn't care if the Vice President was undermining the President and the Attorney General was (figuratively) in bed with both the "Zionists" and the Palestinians and was there a mole and apparently "good guys" don't have to sleep which is a good thing because someone's always trying to shoot them but maybe they aren't really the good guys after all. Yeah. That's about how much sense it made to me. The concept of finding the Library of Alexandria is something I could really sink my teeth into, but this book isn't the one that's going to get my imagination fired up. The reader of this audio book was okay, though I think his talents could have been better used. There are a LOT of accents to be read. He does most of them fairly well, but sometimes has problems maintaining them. At one point or another, whether the character is from Georgia USA or from Denmark, they're going to end up sounding like a Kiwi - even if it's for just one sentence. It's hard to maintain that many accents. Add to that the reader's attempt to differentiate characters by giving them a nasal or otherwise recognizable speech style - he gave it a good shot, but I would have preferred that he let me do the accents/speech styles in my head, rather than be jarred when they weren't consistent. (  ) FiberBabble | Mar 30, 2013 | I was initially enthralled with the book, but the writing unfortunately broke down. It became more Raiders of the Lost Ark and Dirk Pitt rather than the potential it started out with. I got lost and disinterested in the Washington DC storyline -- it really didn't lend to what I saw should have been the focus. Would have been much better if the government angle was kept to more of a minimum like in the Altman Code. There was in my mind a lot of cut and paste when it came to historical biblical personalities -- sort of like the author wanted to fit it in but really didn't want to write about it. (  ) skraft001 | Oct 21, 2012 | Good read! Lot's of plot twists. Lot's of interesting background and research. ( ) EctopicBrain | Jul 31, 2012 | no reviews | add a review
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1. Body count. (When will folks realize that the wages of a minion usually include a lethal dose of lead?)
2. Philosophy. (Except when they're being shot at, characters always have time to discuss the meaning of life.)
3. Travel. (Loved that the quest was to find the lost Library of Alexandria.)
Plus an added bonus in this one...revenge on the annoying ex-spouse. (Heh-heh. Come on, you know you wish you could do what Cotton does on p.354) (