Raising Atlantis

By: Thomas Greanias

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hrs

Publisher's summary

The truth is down there. A secret U.S. military dig has uncovered ancient ruins two miles beneath the ice of Antarctica and activated the ultimate weapon. Now rogue American archaeologist Conrad Yeats and beautiful Vatican linguist Serena Serghetti must team up to unlock the secret origins of human civilization before a global cataclysm ends it.

Thomas Greanias builds excitement and suspense every step of the way in this daringly original, thought-provoking adventure that moves with electrifying force. This is the ultimate voyage, a journey to the center of time, as awe-inspiring as the dawn of man...and as inevitable as doomsday. This is Raising Atlantis.

©2005 Thomas Greanias (P)2005 AtlantisAudio, a division of Atlantis Interactive, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Raising Atlantis is a wonderfully honed cliffhanger, an outrageous adventure with a wild dose of the supernatural. A thrill ride from start to finish." (Clive Cussler)
"A gripping page-turner....I think it's a lot like The DaVinci Code, but I like the ending on this one better." (CBS News)
"A remarkable first novel. Raising Atlantis grabs hold of you from the first page and pulls you into an astonishing world of scientific fact and fiction, suspense and good old-fashioned adventure. Thomas Greanias is a superb writer who knows how to tell a tale with style and substance. Thoroughly entertaining." (Nelson DeMille)
"It's not hard to see why this techno-thriller has already been such a success: a gripping plot about the discovery of an island believed to be Atlantis, not in the Aegean but buried under the ice of the South Pole; some colorful characters, including a father-and-son team of archeologists; and some clean, no-nonsense writing that adds to the reading speed and suspense." (Chicago Tribune)

Jack of all trades, master of none

I felt that this book tried to dabble in way to many different areas (philosophy, religion, astronomy, symbology) but didn't excel in any of them. Some of the ideas would sound interesting and then the author would take it too far to where it was just totally implausible.

For cheese factor, I would give it a 5 out of 5. Maybe it was just the tone of the reading but I could totally envision Ahhhnold delivering some of these cheeseballs.

The idea of finding Atlantis is pretty novel and interesting but this story wasn't.

What a Disappointment

I selected this book based on the reviews above by Cussler, DeMille and the Chicago Tribune AND because Scott Brick was the narrator. Today after an hour into part II, I had to put it down I was so irritated. Rather than "clean, no-nonsense writing," I found it simplistic and unbelieveable even as a fantasy. To its credit, it offered an interesting combination of facts and visual images, so it could become a (heavily edited)action movie.

Great reading of horrid story

Scott Brick could make the McGuffie Reader exciting. Even though Raising Atlantis makes less sense than the McGuffie Reader, he kept me engaged enough, even through the disappointing and inconclusive ending.
The story is bogus science fiction that would be better off set 10 centuries in the future than 20 centuries in the past. Sorry, Author, but I am just not buying the suspension of the laws of nature in a contemporary setting.

An absolutely appalling book

A preposterous story strung together with cliches and characters who are uniformly arrogant, angry, and sarcastic. I stopped listening when I realized that I wanted each of them to meet a bad end.

Whew

High hopes for a decent adventure are dashed very quickly. While Scott Brick does a great job, he can only read what is written. While obviously a great premise, and not a bad story concept, the writer seems to rush through each scene as if impatient to get to the next chapter. Details are lacking, and characters are shallow, inconsitent, and make illogical and out-of-character decisions throughout the story. The author constantly adds props "on-th-fly" to the story, to brace up the flimsy structure of the story. I was surprized how poorly written the story turned out to be, particularly after reading the initial peer reviews by other authors I enjoy. I listenend to the entire story, hoping for redemption, but it never materialized. Whew.....

Raising Atlantis - More like Raising my hackles..

In a word - boring. I believe this is a new book, one that seems to have lifted heavily from the pacy scene - setting and creativity of Dan Brown's work, but here the threads go rumbling on to...nowhere much. The arctic action has been done before, and better - in 'Deception Point', and there more old ground covered in the many Indiana Jones - like set-pieces (as mentioned by another reviewer). The runeology and mysticism/astrological stuff (or whatever it was later in the book) bored me almost to tears,and the villians of the piece seem to have been ordered from from rent - a - stereotypicalterrorist.com.
This is the first time I have fallen asleep more times than I can remember to an audio book. I wanted to give it half a star for the okay start. My advice - don't bother.

Yuck

Even the gifted narrator Scott Brick could not save this. What was it? Science Fiction? I'm really not sure... but it was dreadful.

Increasingly silly

Starts off well enough, and sets things up rather well. Sadly after that it deteriorates into poor characterisation and an increasing implausible plot. By the last hour the book took a plot twist too many and I turned it off. I won't listen to the end, that probably says it all.

Missed the mark

Can’t decide which is worse: the writing or the reader. The premise is fine, but the main characters are poorly drawn, shallow and not likeable. They’re so stereotypical that you don’t even care. The reader sounds like he’s reading to kindergarteners. Often he drops his voice so low you miss what’s being said. The ending alludes to a sequel...no way I’m going for another round.
Additionally, the editing is terrible and needs redoing. The last word of each chapter is practically clipped off by the announcement of the next chapter. Very aggravating.