- Hardcover: 357 pages
- Publisher: William Morrow & Co; First Edition edition (January 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 068808799X
- ISBN-13: 978-0688087999
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 16 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 590 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,213,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
From Publishers Weekly
This tepid eco-thriller comes as a disappointment after Grimwood's World Fantasy Award-winning Replay (1986). Though the author gives us several interesting characters-journalist Daniel Colter, dolphin researcher Sheila Roberts, tuna-boat captain Antonio Batera-and sketches convincing, often painful pasts for each, such subtleties are blurred by his soft-lensed focus on dolphin characters (with unwieldy names such as Ch*Tril and Ek*Tiq) and their cetacean point of view. The main plot develops in the dolphin sections, which explain that humans and dolphins were once in regular telepathic contact before our violent ways drove away the dolphins, who declared humanity off limits. Now, though, as human depredations in the sea are reaching critical levels, the dolphins have concluded that renewed contact may be the only way to end the slaughter. Colter, Roberts and Batera all felt the telepathic call of the dolphins when they were young, so they're the obvious choices for contact now. The narrative's early stages contain some drama, but it grows increasingly clogged with Grimwood's utopian vision of a dolphin-inspired paradise in which humanity's troubles are washed away by contact with the universally wise and kind cetaceans. The coda describing the eradication of most of the world's ills (AIDS, sexual repression, neurosis, "an effective end to war, to cruelty, to hunger") merely confirms this book's devolvement a muddle-headed, moralistic wish-fulfillment fantasy that substitutes airy preaching for real human feeling.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Making an incredible breakthrough in dolphin communications, a beautiful marine biologist learns from her oceanic friends that an environmental disaster of earth-shattering proportions is imminent. Reprint. PW.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
If you love dolphins, read this!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Into The Deep (Paperback)
Living near the ocean and seeing dolphins so often I am so entralled by them. This book gives a light at the end of the tunnel to what things could be like if we were to stop thinking of dolphins as an animal whos purpose is merely to entertain us at amusement parks. Anyone with a deep soal will appreciate this book. I highly recommend it.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A very good book! Definetly worth reading!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Into The Deep (Paperback)
After seeing the only one review, giving it a one star, I felt I had to respond. Even though this book is not 'perfect' (like 'Replay' is), this is a very very good book. It has a very unique perspective, since some of the heroes of the book are actually dolphins - and Mr. Grimwood has done a very good job telling the story from their eyes. You can actually feel how much Mr. Grimwood loves the sea, dolphins and other sea creatures.
1.0 out of 5 stars
a very bad book,
By A Customer
This review is from: Into The Deep (Paperback)
Having heard that Grimwood was a fantasy award winner, I thought I couldn't go wrong with this selection.Boy was I wrong!!! This is a really silly book written, it would seem, by the creators of Flipper! It is entirely unbelievable and scientifically flawed (lobsters, when they are alive and at the bottom of the ocean, are not red, Mr.Grimwood, they are dark green! They are only red when you cook them.) Worse book I have ever read. Don't waste your time on this one unless you enjoy chuckling at poor writing. I'd give it a "minus-one star," if could.
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