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Interesting concept, and clearly the author was well-read on the scientific aspects of the story, but perhaps too much. The characters devolved into so much explanation throughout the book, it felt the author was padding the pages with things he paraphrased from the articles he'd read.

Also, the character dialogue felt too contrived, particularly at parts of the action where imminent danger was upon them, the dialogue felt out of place and the "humor" too forced.

The final scene dragged on for so long, I heard myself tell the author out loud to "get it over with already"!


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Decipher Stel Pavlou 9780312366964 Books Reviews

Are you kidding me? This is the greatest book and should be made into a movie!! It has everything, ancients, pyramids, archeology, deep sea oil drilling, the arctic, the arctic treaty - I could go on. The author is a genius.
An amazing story, well written
My second time reading this book it's preimise and excitement know no bounds! Why this book has not been put to screenplay and movie are beyond me? For all you can handle in mystery,suspense,science, this is the book for all ages!
Decipher is a definite page turner. The book is really well researched. It is amazing how the author managed to bring all of the different subject areas together with technical data that made the story sound very believable and at the same time still easy to understand. I love reading books that authors have taken the time to do actual research on the subject they are writing about. There are pages in the back for a bibliography of books that he used and I will be buying some of the books because the subject matter was so interesting. I look forward to reading his next book. A definite read for anyone who loves a well researched and action packed book.
I do not understand the negative reviews. Everything always takes place in it's own "Earth" It's as real and true as it needs to be.... SO, that taken care of... I carried this book with me till I finished it - it kept me riveted.
I truly wanted to like this book. I am a sucker for pseudo-science/action adventures. Michael Crichton had the craft down pat (though his last books were unfortunately phoned in...). Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child were doing OK until they decided to kill the goose laying the golden eggs.
This writer needs a looong runway to take off - and then has only predictable destinations to take us to...

Stel Pavlou, apparently, could not write dialogue to save his life! The fact that he is a Hollywood screenwriter comes to no surprise - given the quality of features coming out of that industry.
His core ideas are not that bad. I did not have high expectations, I realize this to be a pulp airport novel. However, his prose and dialogs are just amateurish! Wooden, unnatural conversations leading nowhere. Just like the plot lines. Constant (and unnecessary) location changes and characters alternations made me to want to quit on it. Yet, I have never quit on a book before so I kept on digging. One needs to take notes in order to keep up with all the back-and-forth; if only he would care!

I do not agree with the other reviewers his science is well researched and not that off, whereas his heretical approach to organized religion is not unoriginal - but his characters are one-dimensional cartoons no one can care about.

Let's hope he learns some things from this one.
I read 'The Atlantis Gene' and was gravely disappointed.
Someone on reddit suggested I pick this up instead. There are some major similarities end of the world, atlantis buried under the ice of antarctica, throw in an evil corporation and some action...

Make no mistake this is a thriller, not really a thinking kind of scifi. And oftentimes I don't want a thinking kind of novel (I just did that for 8 hours at work). But it isn't stupid, and the technobabble is master class. The characters are fairly well developed, even the cliche of the haughty and self-centered genius develops some dimensions as the book continues.

The action is steady, not frenzied (like it was with atlantis gene),
there are some very good workable ideas (atlantis gene had this stupid bell thing that made NO sense)-- the harmonic states were a pretty cool and unexpected solution. I don't think that gave away very much without context you don't get until the end anyway.

And the ending was positive, rewarding, and hopeful. I'm sorry to keep comparing the two books but they're most recent in my memory, having read them back to back In atlantis gene you end on a cliffhanger-- wait for the sequel that hasn't come out yet! And when the characters GET to atlantis, it's flat and unrewarding. Some rooms, and some immense hallways filled with stasis tubes... Okaaay....
In this book Atlantis is done justice as the mythical wonder that it's supposed to be. And good reason is given for its fall. I hate tv shows and serial books that just tease you along to the next installment, never granting the lure they've strung you along for.
Decipher delivered.
Interesting concept, and clearly the author was well-read on the scientific aspects of the story, but perhaps too much. The characters devolved into so much explanation throughout the book, it felt the author was padding the pages with things he paraphrased from the articles he'd read.

Also, the character dialogue felt too contrived, particularly at parts of the action where imminent danger was upon them, the dialogue felt out of place and the "humor" too forced.

The final scene dragged on for so long, I heard myself tell the author out loud to "get it over with already"!