tunnels under earth book
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FROM: Laurel Haywood <[removed]@tnrdlib.bc.ca>
REC'D: 1/24/04, 5:32 PM
FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/24/04, 5:59 PM
From Kirkus Reviews
The aptly surnamed authors long, long melodrama
about a sub-planet sub-culture. Unlucky
mountaineer Ike Crockett stumbles into absolutely
the wrong cave one night. Spiraling downward
faster than Alice did, he finds his own,
terrifying kind of Wonderland plus lots of grief
at the hands of the inhabitants, the horrible
haddies (Homo hadalis is the technical term).
Though the haddies, a lost species, come in a
variety of sizes and shapes, usually they can be
relied on for a vestigial tail, red or green
eyes, and a rack of horns. Long (The Ascent,
1992, etc.) depicts them as big, strong, and
resolutely opposed to any kind of accommodation
with Homo sapiens. Also, as Ike painfully
discovers, theyve refined their torture and
mutilation skills during eons of underground
existence. Cut to Ali, a beautiful almost-nun
laboring contentedly in a leper colony in South
Africa's Kalahari Desert, who is about to have
her own unsettling haddie experience.
Ever-interested in an infusion of well-built
breeders, since their home-grown types havent
been keeping pace and the species faces
extinction, the haddies come that close to making
Ali a kidnap victim. Eventually, she hooks up
with Ike on an expedition exploring the stretch
of haddie-land that extends beneath the Pacific.
Ike, having escaped their clutches, is now a
leading enemy expert and famous scout. Ali,
passionate about philology, hopes the expedition
will lead her to the origin of language. C.C.
Cooper, head of the multinational corporation
Helios and financial backer of the expedition,
wants to colonize the sub-planet. Along the way,
treachery, love, death, and a smattering of
high-tech wizardry all get stuffed in as the
group confronts haddies and other baddies while
wending its uncertain way across the perilous,
uncharted sea floor. Decent enough prose and
interesting characters, but, once again, Long
buries them under an avalanche of plotting. --
Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP
--- Laurel Haywood <[removed]@tnrdlib.bc.ca>
wrote:
> I have a patron looking for a book written 3-4
> years ago about a present
> day crew of archeologists that are searching
> mass grave(s?) that lead to
> tunnels under the earth. In these tunnels evil
> (demons?) start coming
> out. Any guesses?
> Laurel Haywood-Farmer
> Readers' Advisor
> TNRD Library System
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FROM: Laurel Haywood <[removed]@tnrdlib.bc.ca>
REC'D: 1/24/04, 6:27 PM
David Wright wrote:
> Sounds like 'The Descent,' by Jeff Long.
>
> >From Kirkus Reviews
> The aptly surnamed authors long, long melodrama
> about a sub-planet sub-culture. Unlucky
> mountaineer Ike Crockett stumbles into absolutely
> the wrong cave one night. Spiraling downward
> faster than Alice did, he finds his own,
> terrifying kind of Wonderland plus lots of grief
> at the hands of the inhabitants, the horrible
> haddies (Homo hadalis is the technical term).
> Though the haddies, a lost species, come in a
> variety of sizes and shapes, usually they can be
> relied on for a vestigial tail, red or green
> eyes, and a rack of horns. Long (The Ascent,
> 1992, etc.) depicts them as big, strong, and
> resolutely opposed to any kind of accommodation
> with Homo sapiens. Also, as Ike painfully
> discovers, theyve refined their torture and
> mutilation skills during eons of underground
> existence. Cut to Ali, a beautiful almost-nun
> laboring contentedly in a leper colony in South
> Africa's Kalahari Desert, who is about to have
> her own unsettling haddie experience.
> Ever-interested in an infusion of well-built
> breeders, since their home-grown types havent
> been keeping pace and the species faces
> extinction, the haddies come that close to making
> Ali a kidnap victim. Eventually, she hooks up
> with Ike on an expedition exploring the stretch
> of haddie-land that extends beneath the Pacific.
> Ike, having escaped their clutches, is now a
> leading enemy expert and famous scout. Ali,
> passionate about philology, hopes the expedition
> will lead her to the origin of language. C.C.
> Cooper, head of the multinational corporation
> Helios and financial backer of the expedition,
> wants to colonize the sub-planet. Along the way,
> treachery, love, death, and a smattering of
> high-tech wizardry all get stuffed in as the
> group confronts haddies and other baddies while
> wending its uncertain way across the perilous,
> uncharted sea floor. Decent enough prose and
> interesting characters, but, once again, Long
> buries them under an avalanche of plotting. --
> Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP
>
> --- Laurel Haywood <[removed]@tnrdlib.bc.ca>
> wrote:
> > I have a patron looking for a book written 3-4
> > years ago about a present
> > day crew of archeologists that are searching
> > mass grave(s?) that lead to
> > tunnels under the earth. In these tunnels evil
> > (demons?) start coming
> > out. Any guesses?
> > Laurel Haywood-Farmer
> > Readers' Advisor
> > TNRD Library System
> >
> >
> >
> >
> ......................................................................
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> > archives?
> > Everything Fiction_L:
> http://fictionl.webrary.org
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> Their tastes may not be the same.”
>
> -George Bernard Shaw
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REC'D: 1/27/04, 10:06 AM
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>I have a patron looking for a book written 3-4 years ago about a present
>day crew of archeologists that are searching mass grave(s?) that lead to
>tunnels under the earth. In these tunnels evil (demons?) start coming
>out. Any guesses?
>Laurel Haywood-Farmer
>Readers' Advisor
>TNRD Library System
>
>
>
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>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
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