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About one year ago to the day, I read to my kids Clive Cussler’s first-ever book for kids, The Adventures of Vin Fiz (2006). We didn’t know what we were getting into, but I’d long been a Clive Cussler fan, … Continue reading
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True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks It’s been a long while since I read a book by Clive Cussler—nearly 18 months, in fact, since I gave up on the last novel I tried, Odessa Sea. I did read The Adventures of … Continue reading
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This book has been a long time in coming. Back when I first began my Clive Cussler phase, I had just left the Army, my wife was pregnant, and both of us were in grad school. When the baby came … Continue reading
Dirk Pitt Adventures #24 It has been about 9 months since I tried reading something from one of my long-time favorite authors, Clive Cussler, who died in early 2020. Cussler holds a special place in my heart, because while I … Continue reading
The Oregon Files #14 It has been a few years since I read and reviewed a book from one of my favorite adventure novelists, Clive Cussler. He died four months after this book was published (and about one month before … Continue reading
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For the 13th installment to The Oregon Files, Clive Cussler and co-author Boyd Morrison take Juan Cabrillo and the crew of The Oregon to an island in the Indian Ocean, India itself, Africa, and the Suez Canal. As a faithful … Continue reading
It’s been a while since I’ve tried to tackle another Isaac Bell Adventure. I find that for this series in particular, I’ve really got to be in the mood for the turn-of-the-century style of story-telling. That’s my average daily mood! … Continue reading
Like others in The NUMA Files series, this is the second time I’ve returned to this book. It’s not so much that I dislike Kurt Austin and Joe Zavalla, but that (as copycats of Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino) they’re … Continue reading
As I plow my way through Clive Cussler‘s entire bibliography, I inevitably must come across some easily-forgotten stories from The NUMA Files series for a second time. White Death, the story of inbred Eskimos who crave to ruin world fisheries … Continue reading
The second installment to Cussler’s pretty-much-Dirk-Pitt-but-not-Dirk-Pitt series, The NUMA Files, is Blue Gold, a story with a normalish plot that’s just bedazzled with weirdness. I agree with King Solomon that “there’s nothing new under the sun,” yet at the same … Continue reading
