Atlantis code

A pleasant easy read difficult ,with some fun and incredible adventure.Difficult to review without spoilers. Recommend for those who like light reading on a popular mythical theme.

An excellent Dr Lourds adventure trying to uncover the secrets of Atlantis ahead of a murderous Cardinal. Another reviewer has pointed out some geographical confusion regarding Senegal.There are other errors p.34 "this writing should be in one of the Altaic languages.Turkic,Mongolic or Tungusic." "it's a family of languages that encompassed this area. It's where all language here(the Middle East sprang from. The language group stretches from Central Asia to Japan a thousand miles north and has absolutely no links to ancient Egypt,Anatolia,Iran or Mesopotamia.P.55 has the evil Cardinal and this henchman(both Italians)talking in Rome. "A cymbal.""A symbol of what?" The Italian words cimbalo and simbolo are not so easily confused as in English.P.227 "amusing to note how many land-locked South American countries hosted veritable navies"There are only two such countries in the Americas, Bolivia and Paraguay to choose from.Travelling in Yorubaland, Nigeria, p.385 "pointing out spider monkeys".P386 "spider monkeys leaped from treetop to treetop" and "the driver had to serve to avoid hitting a forest elephant."These encounters are even more remarkable than discovering Atlantis, as spider monkeys are native to the Americas and the last Nigerian elephant died in 2005,hundreds of miles away to the east.P.106"Russia,even these days,wasn't the hottest of destinations,the kind that had flights leaving every thirty minutes". I think this overstates the problem of travelling from Egypt to Moscow, which I believe has good connections. Lourds travels via London. Istanbul,Athens, Cyprus or Israel should have been quicker.Also on the flight p.114 "Lourds sipped the water" What water?The book also paints the Yoruba as being the equivalent of the Phoenicians. Their society did not coalesce until c1000 C.E and there is no evidence that they were ever seafarers.

I found the story enjoyable and nicely written , but not as gripping as the Dan Brown story I read before this ones

An adventure, treasure hunting tale for you to indulge yourself in.

Great story, I love reading anything to do about Atlantis and seeing how other people perceive the legend/myth. Perhaps one day we will find it. This book has a great plot with some amazing characters. Thomas Lourdes has now become one of my favourite linguistics.

Brokaw inhabits somewhat the shallower end of the pool in which writers like Kuzneski and Boyd Morrison swim. There's nothing wrong with the book. The underlying archaeological mystery is as inventive as any I've read and the key research has been well carried out. It just falls a little short of being unputdownable, gets a little turgid in parts and doesn't have a feel that you would want to re-read it at a future date. But it is certainly not wasted time and is definitely worth reading once.So what to say? The action scenes lack a bit of impact. The writer relies rather too much on verbal lecture mode to unfold the background information. Characterisation appears to be rather thin, with new ones introduced by name and a brief description before being slotted into place. They tend to adapt to the needs of the author rather than being driven by their own personalities. The sadistically vicious baddie does his sadistically vicious act once and thereafter reverts to being a fairly average black hat. The female lead displays some ninja qualities early on based upon contact with 'special forces' but then slips into dumb, self-destructive blonde mode for the rest of the book except when the occasional light-bulb moment is called for. Other characters appear only to fade into a role as extras.The sex has been mentioned and I didn't find that a problem. Other authors in the field seem to shy away from it like a nun in an orgy to avoid getting labelled sleazy, which is something of a failing in the way that the male and female leads in their books go to such lengths to avoid the inevitabvle. It isn't pervasive here either with one short but explicit scene and indications that it happened more often than the one time. But as has also been mentioned, the lead male seems to have to do little more than deliver lectures and stroke his beard to have every female within 100 yards ready to give her all. Frankly he isn't the type for whom we feel sympathetic enough towards to necessarily pat him on the back for his rather self-satisfied ease of conquest.And if the book has a significant failing, perhaps that is it. The main character doesn't inspire and we don't care that much if he gets beaten up or even killed along the way. He may be driven but he is also just a touch too arrogant and full of himself for us to want to 'be' him. It is somewhat disappointing that the strongest female character should be used as conquest number two, seemingly more because the author needed an extra woman to set up certain plot points than for any logical reason. So buy it and read it for its take on Atlantis but don't expect too much beyond that.Oh and his worst crime? He calls it 'soccer' instead of 'football' ;-)

I felt the author lost the plot in the end and you could predict the ending. The role of the female characters could be strengthened but tapered half way through the story.

Second time reading this as a change to my other genre love.If you like Dan Brown, this is another great read.Easy and fast flowing plot with twists and turns but not so far fetched to not believe there could be some elements of truth (for those who indulge in conspiracy novels)!Good characters that I look forward to meeting again in the sequels!