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| Seven Ancient Wonders | 
 enlarge | Author: Matthew Reilly
Publisher: Pan Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  108 reviews
Sales Rank: 6663
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.4 x 1.4
ISBN: 0330426575
EAN: 9780330426572
ASIN: 0330426575
Publication Date: August 4, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: light cover wear
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 Remember this is 'fiction'! September 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this book and wondered if I had read the same book as some of the previous reviews. What this book is is a tongue in cheek, fast paced adventure. So Reilly may have taken a few liberties with historical facts, specially adapted weapons and 747's but this is 'fiction' not real life. I couldn't put the book down and my 13 year old son has already started reading it. Don't take it too seriously, don't analyse every fact, don't wonder if things that happen are even possible, just read and enjoy it!
 How Do Books Like This Get Published? August 28, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have to say that I am dumbfounded that this book managed to get published as an adult book! If the characters had been from a fantasy world or even a Sci-Fi angle it may have worked from a story point of view, although this wouldn't have excused the appalling writing.
Basically a group of elite soldiers from the 'smaller' countries in the world run around the world finding the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World with the aid of an archaeologist come mad professor/inventor - who seems able to invent an appropriate gadget for each required situation, including a perfectly working bionic arm for the main hero who loses his by sticking it, heroically, into molten lava - and a small mystic girl who can decipher dead languages. They are only missing a cute heroic dog and they would be complete!
It's a truly dreadful book that I only finished out of morbid curiosity, and was left open mouthed at the end but not in a good way. Kids of 5 would be offended by the lack of depth in this book.
And as a final point - the heroic Captain West is described as once being part of the best elite force in the world, the Australian SAS - WHAT?? Nothing against the Aussie SAS, by the way - damned fine chaps and superb soldiers one and all I suspect - but I don't know many people who would put them at the very top of the SF tree? I think the SAS and Delta Force (amongst others) might disagree!!
Truly awful book, don't buy it!
Utter tosh August 5, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
If this book has to be marketed it should be in the childrens' section.
Got to about page 100 then threw it in the bin.
Utter tosh.
Just goes to show that "No1 best seller" means nothing.
DO NOT be sucked in by the marketing hype.
Worst. Book. Ever August 2, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This could possibly be the worst book I've ever read, and I've read "The Last Templar." The story is so stupid that you want to gauge your eyes out; the writing style is worse than that of a twelve-year-old; he uses exclamation marks like there's no tomorrow; and the characters are so flat you could build a card house out of them...
Avoid at all costs. You have been warned.
Read James Rollins instead.
Woeful July 25, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The basic ingredients of any thriller is cohesion and pace of narrative. In 'Seven Ancient Wonders' cohesion is lacking. This is a 'novel' constructed using a patchwork of events where the seams are always showing. What the author puts down to style (with his little diagrams throughout the 'novel'), is in fact a means of trying to disguise his shortcomings as a writer. Nice research, nice premis but Mr Reilly should stick to being a trusty researcher and let a real writer construct the thriller.
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