MEG: Primal Waters | Steve Alten | UNBELIEVABLE THOUGHT WENT INTO THIS!

MEG: Primal Waters | Steve Alten | Meg: Primal Waters

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MEG: Primal Waters

	MEG: Primal Waters Steve Alten, 2004 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 83 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

UNBELIEVABLE THOUGHT WENT INTO THIS!

well from the moment i opened this book to the moment i closed it, i was amazed. yes, we can't prove all these points but science knows that there was a meg, we also can't prove there aren't still some out there,,,the way this book is written, you might get a little shaky the next time you go in the ocean,,,, hehehe. better than jaws. this hits on actual reality and science that we all may be able to believe in. i asked steve how he did research on these theories and its incredible what he has done to write these books. top notch

Meg: Primal Waters

Three stories, Three Sharks, Four Stars
I read Meg Primal Waters before the other two and it didn't make a difference at all. It was still great, terrifing and a real page turner. The only problem is there's too much sex and every relationship is going down the drain. None the less it's still a great book. I'd recomend it to just about anyone who's looking for another Jaws. the only differince is this Shark's bigger.

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Totally over the top, but still a good read

Though a good and successful sequel to its 2 predecessors, MEG: Primal Waters definitely requires a greater suspension of disbelief. Granted, all of these books are fiction based on scraps of supposition and scant facts, but this book seems to really "jump the shark" (sorry, I couldn't resist) in some areas. Surprisingly, it wasn't the elaborate and years-in-the-making revenge plotted against Jonas or the crazy, unrealistic, over-the-top stunts of the Daredevils that made me think twice...it was some of the seemingly mundane things that gave me pause.

It may seem odd, but the extensive use/abuse and mistreatment of marine life depicted in this story that hurt the "believability" of this book for me. Certainly the aforementioned revenge plot and stunts were outrageous, but they were written to be that way. The poor treatment of the sharks, whales, seals, etc., however, was presented as if it were "all in a day's work." In the course of the story, the majority of these animal-related events were being taped for a TV show (think Survivor-meets-Fear Factor), meaning they would eventually be shown to the public at large. Nonetheless, there were only a few mentions made of any potential issues with this behavior and all of them were related to the treatment of the MEGs. No one ever really questioned what was happening to the other sea creatures and and that's where they lost me. All I could think was "There is NO way the animal rights groups, Greenpeace, etc., would ever let this happen." If you can get past that, it's a good story and, despite its flaws, it kept my interest throughout.

The close of the book promises the return of Jonas Taylor. As much as I enjoy this series, I do wonder how good a 4th book will be. I mean, what is left for Jonas and his family to do with these sharks? I hesitate to even imagine...

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Still a really entertaining Alten shark thriller, but not the best of the series

No spoilers.

Before reading this book I had already read the first two installments of the MEG series and I loved both of them. I have never been interested in sharks before, but I thought the first book was really entertaining and the second book was even better than that. Having finished Primal Waters, I still have the series ranked in that order: Trench as my absolute favorite, MEG, and now this one, Primal Waters.

There are only a few things about this book that I didn't like. First of all, it takes so much longer than the other two books to get started. It seems like Alten wanted to appease readers who are new to the MEG series by including everything that happened from the first two books in the first 100 pages of this book. While that's good for a first-timer, it definitely took away from the book for those of us who have read the first two and already know what's going on. I think a series like MEG is best enjoyed by reading all of the books in order (which isn't necessarily needed in other series,) so by doing this for new-comers, the book is a bit of a bore in the beginning. My other problem with the book involved the ending. After the slow beginning, the middle portion of the book was typical Alten excitement and I enjoyed just as much as I have in the others, but the ending is so anti-climatic based on the way the story was unfolding that it left me with a bad taste. I know Alten needed to leave a segway available for the fourth (and final apparently) book in the series, but I just didn't particularly enjoy the ending to this like I did in the others.

Having said all that, it was still another great book by Alten that had me entertained (once the action started) and kept me turning page after page while disregarding school work and is still worthy of four stars. Definitely don't skip this one if you've read the other books of the series and if you haven't, go back and start with the first book MEG: A Novel of Deep Terror because even if you're not into sharks, they're still thrilling reads.

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