DEEP THROAT FATALITIES (Meg)

Member Name: indigojade

Product:	Meg
Date:	08/10/01 (179 review reads)
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Advantages: amazing story

Disadvantages: makes you scared of the sea

I actually picked this book up at my local car boot sale yesterday. Its not really my usual type of book anything along the ‘Jaws’ theme really puts me off, but once I had started reading it (last night) I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough until I had finished it (early hours of this morning)!

The story is about Megalodons, ancestors of the Great white shark. This 20 tonne, 60 foot killing machine was though to have become extinct along with the dinosaurs, there is a fantastic graphic account at the beginning of the book, of how the megalodon hunts and kills a T-rex, shaking and shredding it with its nine inch serrated teeth!

There is only one man that still believes in the existence of the megalodon, Professor Jonas Taylor – a forty two year old paleontologist and expert on Megalodons. After retiring from the hunting game, after a nasty experience, he hunted down on the lecture circuit to assist in the identification of the ‘creature’ that is attacking and destroying data collectors in the Marianna trench 7 miles beneath the Pacific Ocean.


Professor Taylor is the only man to have descended into and returned from the depths of the Marianna trench, his last expedition down there saw the demise of two of his colleagues, due to a fault Taylor made. He has always been held accountable for their deaths as his explanation of events leading up to the deaths, was thought to be too fantastical to be believed. With his reputation in tatters and his courage wavering, he is reluctant to descend once again into the horrors of the Marianna trench.


Taylor is persuaded by an old colleague to make the descent, that and the fact his wife is having an affair with his best friend. He accompanied on his mission by the son of his colleague, both in one man submarines. Once on the floor of the trench, 7 miles beneath the ocean and in complete darkness, the megalodon feels their presence. After a ferocious
and grisly battle the megalodon becomes ensnared in the steel cable attached to the surface boat and is hauled through the icy waters to astonish the people on the boat.

When Taylor surfaces his theories are believed and his reputation restored. However Taylor is not happy, what he saw as the megalodon was hauled to the surface was beyond belief and no one believes him. The gates of hell have been opened and a supreme killing machine has been unleashed in a most credible fashion.

There is only one man with the skill and the know how to stop the ensuing carnage……..

There is a lot of technical jargon in the book such as vivid description of how exactly the submersibles are made this doesn’t take anything away from the book and can easily be skipped if it gets too intense. The ending does seem to be a little far fetched in the cold light of day, but once you start to follow the story, you are entranced, horrified and delighted by it all. Anyone who reads Meg and is a little wary of the sea as I am will be absolutely terrified by the end of the book!

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