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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
These sound very cartoonish. If so, I might enjoy them.
Well, I've gone all these years encountering his name in airports, in used bookstores, garage sales, and yet never read a word.
But...if ridiculous and cartoonish (although, unlike Austin Powers, unintentionally so), it might still be a fun read just to see the changing sexual politics of the era.
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From what I remember of my brother's description of the book he read, cartoonish would be accurate. Dirk Pitt appears to be a classic Mary Sue (Larry Stu?) character who spends the novel saving countless people and at one point is rescued by Clive Cussler himself. Luxury passenger submarines and a biplane duel. It made James Bond seem grounded in gritty realism by comparison.