This major novel, written with sophistication and wonderful wit, has some of the flavor of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, as it tells the story of a group of people who meet at a drug-and-alcohol rehabilitation clinic.
I have a real soft-spot for all things Peter Benchley. This was the man that kicked off the massive JAWS hit and his ending – unlike the film – is still one of the most brilliant that I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading… Clever man!I had high hopes for The Deep. I’d started it a few times since...
”Duuun dun duuun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun BOM BOM dun dun dun dun dun dun doo dedoo doo dedoo dede doo dede doo dededoo.” Has there ever been theme music used in a film more effectively than for the 1975 blockbuster movie Jaws? A movie so powerful that there are legions of people that have re...
Maynard is a frustrated journalist who gave up on writing anything important and settled into his life as a magazine writer, churning out assignments but enjoying some freelance work. One day, he stumbles across an amazing statistic: boats are disappearing in the Caicos Islands area of the Cari...
This all starts back when the Nazi's were still in command and they were just being stopped from doing the evil things that they did. It all starts one a German U-boat picks up Ernst Kruger a German scientist. They had loaded his creation on the submarine not knowing what was inside of the box. D...
I'm officially half way through this book and I thought maybe it was just a slow starter. No it just flat sucks. It's about a presidential speech writer and what happens at work no action or intrique. The only thing that's happened so far is his wife left him and even though he had the house he's...
At a small marine institute off the coast of Connecticut, only marine biologist Simon Chase realizes that a sixteen-foot pregnant Great White is feeding in the area. But even Simon doesn't know that a far deadlier creature is about to come out of the deep and threaten everything he cares for. A c...
And there’s no better example of the financial value of manta encounters to a local economy than the success of Kona, Hawaii.There, the reef manta rays have been studied for more than a decade. Each individual within the resident population has been identified by its characteristic markings and c...
He stepped in a puddle and felt icy water slop over his shoe tops and seep between his toes. It might as well be winter. The only difference between summer and winter in Nova Scotia was that by winter all the leaves had been blown away. He crossed the quadrangle, stopped at Commons to pick up his...
Blinded by blood, nauseated by the taste of fish guts, whale oil, and putrid horse flesh, I gripped the aluminum bars of the shark cage to steady myself against the violent, erratic jolts as the cage was tossed by the choppy sea. A couple of feet above, the surface was a prism that scattered rays...