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Raising Atlantis Description
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780743491914
ISBN: 0743491912
Label: Pocket Star
Manufacturer: Pocket Star
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2005-07-26
Publisher: Pocket Star
Studio: Pocket Star
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780743491914
ISBN: 0743491912
Label: Pocket Star
Manufacturer: Pocket Star
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2005-07-26
Publisher: Pocket Star
Studio: Pocket Star
Editorial Review of Raising Atlantis
In Antarctica, a glacial earthquake swallows up a team of scientists...and exposes a mysterious monument older than the Earth itself.
In Peru, archaeologist Dr. Conrad Yeats is apprehended by U.S. Special Forces...to unlock the final key to the origins of the human race.
In Rome, the pope summons environmental activist Dr. Serena Serghetti to the Vatican...and reveals a terrifying vision of apocalyptic disaster.
In space, a weather satellite reveals four massive storms forming around the South Pole...and three U.S. spy satellites disappear from orbit.
These are the end times, when the legends of a lost civilization and the prophecies of the world's great religions lead a man and a woman to a shattering discovery that will change the fate of humankind. This is the ultimate voyage, a journey to the center of time, as awe-inspiring as the dawn of man--and as inevitable as doomsday. This is RAISING ATLANTIS....
Customer Reviews of Raising Atlantis
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: What a story!
Review: I purchased this book, as I am a big fan of thrillers that probe the deeper mysteries of life & history - both recorded and pre-written records. I love exploring the possibilities of ancient cultures that may have been highly advanced, where clues are laid, and a path set out for us to follow. Raising Atlantis is just such a book and it does not disappoint. In fact, this book kept me guessing the whole way through.
The author, Thomas Greanias, has obviously put a ton of research into this book, both from an archaeological/anthropological perspective, as well as technological. It reminds me a lot of James Rollins' style of storytelling (I am a big James Rollins fan), with its unrelenting pace, technical details, techno know-how & complexities, coupled with Dan Brown's Deception Point (one of my favorite books) with respect to its two main characters, their relationship, the story's ice-bound setting and an amazing, yet threatening, mystery that lay below the frozen, unforgiving terrain.
The main thread of this story, the search for an ancient, possibly alien, Mother Culture is a fascinating one. There are many theories still debated today on the similarities amongst the incredible ancient monuments of culture around the world. It is one that I am interested in both personally and as an author. It is rich material for the imagination. Pairing that with the myth of Altantis and the forbidding territory of Antarctica, provides for a thrilling adventure. Thomas Greanias has an enjoyable writing style and a passion for his work. I also enjoyed "The Facts Behind Raising Atlantis" at the end of the book. The meeting ground of fact, fiction, and long-held myths that this book provides in a techno-thriller setting makes for an entertaining read. I will be wasting no time reading the follow-up book, The Atlantis Prophecy, which I already own. Well done!!
Rai Aren, co-author of Secret of the Sands
"A deep probing mystery riddled with prophecy and danger, Secret of the Sands uses Egypt and her mythology as a backdrop to delve into the meanings of life and religion." -McNally Robinson
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: INDIANA JONES, WITHOUT THE SNAKES AND SEX
Review: I refuse to see movies that are based on video games, but I had not considered that a book, especially one in my favorite genre, might also be a video game look-alike. Thomas Greanias' biography says he is CEO of an "entertainment company." Maybe that explains the ridiculous amount of action - guys running around pyramids with AK-47s, terrorists perishing in fiery helicopter crashes and ancient temples exploding - in this novel. I'll give the author credit for knowing his Atlantis lore. He worked in a lot of the mythology that's been building around theories that Atlantis was a real place and it was the mother culture, the answer to the mystery of human origins and human civilization.
The author based the story on one of the most intriguing theories about Atlantis - that it was in Antarctica! I first encountered this surprisingly credible idea in the book, When the Sky Fell by Rand and Rose Flem-Ath, and in Graham Hancock's wonderful book, Fingerprint of the Gods. But in Greanias' book, this Atlantis is loaded with Egyptian symbolism, and the Atlanteans have gone to absurd lengths to incorporate iconic symbols and gods into megalithic monuments that all seem to be giant machines that heat and whir and rotate and melt the Antarctic ice in which they were formerly encased.
Greanias has swiped many ideas from actual researchers, the most important being that the earth has undergone crustal displacement in the past, and that accounts for why Antarctica was once ice free. The book cites Charles Hapgood (I highly recommend Hapgood's book, Path of the Poles, for the actual data behind this idea) and the Piri Riis map, so beloved of people interested in alternative history (like me). Hapgood made an excellent case, and he was no nut job hearing voices in his head, but a respected researcher and college professor. The Piri Riis map has been studied by scholars and appears to be genuine, a map based on unaccountably older maps, proving that sometime in the human past, parts of Antarctica were free of ice and someone accurately mapped the coast.
The author takes these known theories and wraps a silly story around them. His male character, Conrad Yeats, is a not very likable person of unknown parentage (but raised by a general, a former astronaut), but the book hints at his being an Atlantean, a seeming impossibility that is never explained. The female lead is a nun, also of strange parentage, but who somehow is proficient in all ancient languages, can expertly fly a helicopter in any weather conditions, is well-known for her defense of the environment and is a regular visitor to the Vatican for friendly chats with the Pope!. That she and Conrad have not had the predictable hot sex scene tells me the author plans a sequel. That might be how we'll learn how Conrad got unthawed after 12000 years "on ice."
I found the book fairly interesting through the landing at Antactica Ice Base Orion, but the author's vision of Atlantis, along with the idea that the Atlanteans had found a way to control crustal displacement and did so with the ridiculous array of temples cum machines, strains even my credulity. I reached a point where I didn't care where the Shrine of the First Sun was located or who had the scepter of Osiris, and just wanted the story to be over. Too much violence, too much silly action, and not enough explication of ideas. Good science fiction is about ideas, not guns and exploding temples.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Seriously silly
Review: The story is seriously silly and filled with clinches. It's pretty clear the author didn't plan out the plot or the story, and was making it up sloppily as he went.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Not all that great.
Review: In the hands of a James Rollins or a Matthew Reilly, the story could have been fantastic. In the hands of this author, it's just kind of "eh". The writing is rather generic and bland, with little feeling behind the action. In fact, it often feels like he's summarizing the action rather than actually showing it! Plus, the female lead character was a totally obnoxious bee-yotch. I hope the sequel is better!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Raising Atlantis - Thomas Greanias
Review: Greanias' novel started well for me, but stretched a bit too far by the end of the story. I liked the characters, but found the parentage plot twist (no specifics to avoid spoiling the book!) a bit hard to swallow. The descriptions of the city and Antarctic were great, and I would read another of his novels in the future, in hopes that he doesn't jump off the proverbial cliff with the plot! I gave it 2 out of 5 stars, as it isn't bad, but there are better novels out there with this type of plot.
Review Summary: What a story!
Review: I purchased this book, as I am a big fan of thrillers that probe the deeper mysteries of life & history - both recorded and pre-written records. I love exploring the possibilities of ancient cultures that may have been highly advanced, where clues are laid, and a path set out for us to follow. Raising Atlantis is just such a book and it does not disappoint. In fact, this book kept me guessing the whole way through.
The author, Thomas Greanias, has obviously put a ton of research into this book, both from an archaeological/anthropological perspective, as well as technological. It reminds me a lot of James Rollins' style of storytelling (I am a big James Rollins fan), with its unrelenting pace, technical details, techno know-how & complexities, coupled with Dan Brown's Deception Point (one of my favorite books) with respect to its two main characters, their relationship, the story's ice-bound setting and an amazing, yet threatening, mystery that lay below the frozen, unforgiving terrain.
The main thread of this story, the search for an ancient, possibly alien, Mother Culture is a fascinating one. There are many theories still debated today on the similarities amongst the incredible ancient monuments of culture around the world. It is one that I am interested in both personally and as an author. It is rich material for the imagination. Pairing that with the myth of Altantis and the forbidding territory of Antarctica, provides for a thrilling adventure. Thomas Greanias has an enjoyable writing style and a passion for his work. I also enjoyed "The Facts Behind Raising Atlantis" at the end of the book. The meeting ground of fact, fiction, and long-held myths that this book provides in a techno-thriller setting makes for an entertaining read. I will be wasting no time reading the follow-up book, The Atlantis Prophecy, which I already own. Well done!!
Rai Aren, co-author of Secret of the Sands
"A deep probing mystery riddled with prophecy and danger, Secret of the Sands uses Egypt and her mythology as a backdrop to delve into the meanings of life and religion." -McNally Robinson
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: INDIANA JONES, WITHOUT THE SNAKES AND SEX
Review: I refuse to see movies that are based on video games, but I had not considered that a book, especially one in my favorite genre, might also be a video game look-alike. Thomas Greanias' biography says he is CEO of an "entertainment company." Maybe that explains the ridiculous amount of action - guys running around pyramids with AK-47s, terrorists perishing in fiery helicopter crashes and ancient temples exploding - in this novel. I'll give the author credit for knowing his Atlantis lore. He worked in a lot of the mythology that's been building around theories that Atlantis was a real place and it was the mother culture, the answer to the mystery of human origins and human civilization.
The author based the story on one of the most intriguing theories about Atlantis - that it was in Antarctica! I first encountered this surprisingly credible idea in the book, When the Sky Fell by Rand and Rose Flem-Ath, and in Graham Hancock's wonderful book, Fingerprint of the Gods. But in Greanias' book, this Atlantis is loaded with Egyptian symbolism, and the Atlanteans have gone to absurd lengths to incorporate iconic symbols and gods into megalithic monuments that all seem to be giant machines that heat and whir and rotate and melt the Antarctic ice in which they were formerly encased.
Greanias has swiped many ideas from actual researchers, the most important being that the earth has undergone crustal displacement in the past, and that accounts for why Antarctica was once ice free. The book cites Charles Hapgood (I highly recommend Hapgood's book, Path of the Poles, for the actual data behind this idea) and the Piri Riis map, so beloved of people interested in alternative history (like me). Hapgood made an excellent case, and he was no nut job hearing voices in his head, but a respected researcher and college professor. The Piri Riis map has been studied by scholars and appears to be genuine, a map based on unaccountably older maps, proving that sometime in the human past, parts of Antarctica were free of ice and someone accurately mapped the coast.
The author takes these known theories and wraps a silly story around them. His male character, Conrad Yeats, is a not very likable person of unknown parentage (but raised by a general, a former astronaut), but the book hints at his being an Atlantean, a seeming impossibility that is never explained. The female lead is a nun, also of strange parentage, but who somehow is proficient in all ancient languages, can expertly fly a helicopter in any weather conditions, is well-known for her defense of the environment and is a regular visitor to the Vatican for friendly chats with the Pope!. That she and Conrad have not had the predictable hot sex scene tells me the author plans a sequel. That might be how we'll learn how Conrad got unthawed after 12000 years "on ice."
I found the book fairly interesting through the landing at Antactica Ice Base Orion, but the author's vision of Atlantis, along with the idea that the Atlanteans had found a way to control crustal displacement and did so with the ridiculous array of temples cum machines, strains even my credulity. I reached a point where I didn't care where the Shrine of the First Sun was located or who had the scepter of Osiris, and just wanted the story to be over. Too much violence, too much silly action, and not enough explication of ideas. Good science fiction is about ideas, not guns and exploding temples.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Seriously silly
Review: The story is seriously silly and filled with clinches. It's pretty clear the author didn't plan out the plot or the story, and was making it up sloppily as he went.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Not all that great.
Review: In the hands of a James Rollins or a Matthew Reilly, the story could have been fantastic. In the hands of this author, it's just kind of "eh". The writing is rather generic and bland, with little feeling behind the action. In fact, it often feels like he's summarizing the action rather than actually showing it! Plus, the female lead character was a totally obnoxious bee-yotch. I hope the sequel is better!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Raising Atlantis - Thomas Greanias
Review: Greanias' novel started well for me, but stretched a bit too far by the end of the story. I liked the characters, but found the parentage plot twist (no specifics to avoid spoiling the book!) a bit hard to swallow. The descriptions of the city and Antarctic were great, and I would read another of his novels in the future, in hopes that he doesn't jump off the proverbial cliff with the plot! I gave it 2 out of 5 stars, as it isn't bad, but there are better novels out there with this type of plot.