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Date Posted: 17:22:52 10/11/02 Fri
Author: Mt. Healthy Mountaineer
Subject: ANHOW Review of Books: "Monster a Tale of Loch Ness" by Jeffrey Konvitz

Published: 1982 by Ballantine Books
Genre: Sci-Fi

The premise of this book is simple - oil explorers discover that there is a giant pool of oil directly under Loch Ness and it can only be reached by using an ocean-style oil rig. Of course, the rig disturbs the monster and there is much mayhem and destruction.

I was hoping this book was a lot more than it was. Its characters were very shallow and one-dimensional. There is the prerequisite forbidden love story between an oil executive and a local that wants the drilling to stop (very Romeo and Juliet). There are the insane corporate leaders opposed by one man with a conscience. Blech! The only reason I kept reading is to get a glimpse of what this author thought the monster was like. So here - save yourself a lot of trouble - he thinks its a plesiasaur with claws that uses the loch as a spawning area as if it were a giant Salmon and returns to the sea by way of a four mile long tunnel. That's why it doesn't show up when scientists use radar and sonar to look for it -its in the ocean. Interesting theory, crappy book.

I give this book a "D-".

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