Arlington Nuetzel
Autor de 2027, New Madrid, Missouri
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- Obras
- 1
- Miembros
- 4
- Popularidad
- #1,536,815
- Valoración
- 3.0
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 1
The author of 2027, New Madrid, Missouri takes us back in time to the winter of 1811-1812 and puts us down smack in the middle of the action. We get to meet several people who are living and/or working in the area and spend many anxious minutes with them as they fight for their lives in the middle of one of the major seismic events in known history. The action is tense and the book moves along quickly. At the end of the book, the author follows a descendent of one of those New Madrid pioneers into the year 2027 just when the New Madrid fault produces another great quake. We then get to see several predictions of what exactly could happen in the St. Louis area if an earthquake of the same intensity of the 1811-1812 earthquakes were to occur.
The author does a great job writing the action sequences while the earthquake is happening, however the dialog gets a bit stilted and his transitions are sometimes shaky. This one is another book that could have been helped by a decent editor.… (más)