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I enjoyed early Cussler books mainly because they were way over the top, like Raise the Titanic! and Vixen 03.
But Clive was never a good writer as such. His style and his grammar are clunky, and when he has any character explain something it is always in a sort of schoolteacher chalk and talk mode no matter who was explaining what.
I didn't really mind it when Cussler turned up doing cameos in his own books, a la Hitchcock. Corny, poorly done every time, but all of a piece with the books really.
I haven't read any of his recent ones. I think the last one I read, which I thought was awful, was set in Antarctica, involving some folderol about blasting the Antarctic ice shelf loose and causing the entire planet to turn upside down (as if).
I don't think there are any good pure adventure writers about any more.
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