Daniel da Cruz (1921–1991)
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- Gangbare naam
- da Cruz, Daniel
- Officiële naam
- da Cruz, Daniel, Jr.
- Geboortedatum
- 1921-11-17
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1991-01-05
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Oxford, Ohio, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Falls Church, Virginia, USA
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The Grotto of Formigans door Daniel Da Cruz
As I sink more & more into senility (no longer precociously so), I might just read more & more bks like this. Actually, I enjoyed it just fine. I have a deep affection for stories like this, the stories written by authors who'll probably never be popular like Michael Crichton is b/c their plots are just a little too silly.. or cheesy.. or ridiculous. The plots that're based more in imagination & fancy than they are on the latest technological blah-blah. A helicopter containing a stolen army payroll crashes near a jungle & some underground insectoid/humanoid creatures swarm over it, people get taken into their queendom, there's fighting, spicy dialog, love interest. It's all good-natured fun.… (meer)
I liked the first couple of books in the series, but did not care for this one much.
There was some good cloak & dagger stuff, although it was not as interesting to me as the straight-forward "down with the Russkies" adventure of the first in the series, but I didn't like the principle characters, and thought the McGuffin unwieldy.
The science foundation was intriguing but iffy.
There was some good cloak & dagger stuff, although it was not as interesting to me as the straight-forward "down with the Russkies" adventure of the first in the series, but I didn't like the principle characters, and thought the McGuffin unwieldy.
The science foundation was intriguing but iffy.
I read Boot coming from the vantage point of a mom sending her son off to the Marine Corps. I found it very interesting and enlightening for me as I followed along on my son's journey. (Yeah, I'm that kinda mom, I'm afraid, rfmagui.) I haven't read Making the Corps by Ricks, but know his work from coverage of the military since that time for the media and he seems to have an excellent understanding of it all. I'll have to check out Making the Corps.
Agree with Schmerguls that Making the Corps is a better book. I'm partial to Boot because I was the Assistant Series Commander of one of the Series that he covers and am mentioned in the acknowledgments.
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