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Loading... Deeper: A Novel (2007)by Jeff Long (Author)
None.   AdorableArlene | Jul 16, 2011 |  I was very excited about this book as I really loved The Descent but I found this book to lack the depth and intrigue that I found in the original. Similar to the original "The Descent" this story jumped around to different groups and areas but I found this one much harder to follow. All the added paper clippings and news reports I found somewhat unnecessary as they didn't add to the plot. The story had some good twists and turns and some favorite characters as well as new ones that really had you wondering with each turn of the page what the outcome would be but as I got closer to the end I found I didn't like the ending as much as I was hoping to. Overall a good read but not very fluid with the previous in the series. (  )1  chemegirl | Mar 18, 2011 | Sequel to Long's 1999 novel, The Descent, which I also loved, this strange novel concerns the subterranean "hadals," creatures who live in tunnels and caverns deep below the surface of the earth. Long ago, the hadals captured and enslaved humans, but now they're believed to be destroyed, and humans are beginning to encroach on the subterranean territory, with often violent and grotesque results. (  ) codyne | Nov 19, 2009 | I HIGHLY recommend this book---if you want a "rip-roaring good read" (Jon Krakauer, author of Under the Banner of Heaven---a brilliant book also)). This blows the amateur bad writing of Dan Brown out of the universe! Smart, lyrical, compelling, and: scary! I haven't been freaked out by a horror novel for a thousand years. This is the one. The first book is The Descent---the book I hoped had been made into a movie (The Descent wasn't it; neither was The Cave) and it should be. Deeper is the sequel. You don't really need to read the first to enjoy the second but you should. The first is even more epic and amazing. Seriously. BUY BORROW or BURN? BUY! (  ) spacegod | Mar 27, 2009 | The story continues from [The Descent]. (  ) xavierroy | Dec 17, 2008 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0743284542, Hardcover)Widely and enthusiastically acclaimed, The Descent marked the debut of a powerful imagination and earned Jeff Long comparisons to Stephen King. Now, after three more suspenseful blockbusters, he returns to the captivating creatures he conjured in that first incredible novel, unleashing a story that will hook his fans and never let go. In The Descent, we discovered a world beneath our feet - a tubular nightmare of tunnels and subterranean rivers and seas inhabited by a savage race of hominids. Our search was to locate their leader, the so-called historical Satan. In Deeper, mankind once again confronts its cruel subterranean relatives, and we must descend even further. Searching for the hadal god, we reach down to our very genesis. With terrorism boiling up from the depths, we find ourselves drawn into a clash of civilizations - one primal, one modern - that forces us to confront our demons all over again. Mesmerizing, concussive, this darkly brilliant work of imagination galvanizes Jeff Long's reputation as a prodigious talent.(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:28:07 -0500) "A decade has passed since doomed explorers unveiled a nightmare of tunnels and rivers honeycombing the earth's depths. After millennia of suffering terror and predation, humanity's armies descended to destroy the ancient hordes. Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, a doomed science expedition killed the subterranean's fabled leader, and suddenly it seemed that evil was dead and all was right with the world again." "Now Deeper arrives to explode that complacency and plunge us back into the sunless abyss. Hell boils up through America's subways and basements to take its revenge and steal our children. Against the backdrop of a looming war with China, a crusade of volunteers races to find the vestiges of a lost race. But a lone explorer, the linguist Ali von Schade, learns that a far greater menace lies in the unexplored heart of the planet. The real Satan can't be killed, and he has been waiting since the beginning of time to gain his freedom. Man and his pitiless enemies are mere pawns in the greatest escape ever devised."--BOOK JACKET.… (more) |
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I understand the political memorandums and their undertones, I just didn't think they had much bearing on the storyline. But then the political memorandum at the end, where is that going? Was it a tease of another book?
Conversations with the Angel interludes, that all knowing, all powerful super being, please be done with it. Enough of semantics.
The Artifacts Reports distracting, but at least it was a rest from the gore.
I thought I could see some of the Memorandums and Artifacts Reports had an underlying tone of "Corporate/Political/People Greed", but other than that I just thought of them as page fillers.
If there is a sequel to Deeper it's not on my list to read. I guess I found the whole book a confused compendium of more than one story, with no definitive ending. I gave it the one star because I finished it. (