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    Domain

    By Steve Alten

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    A beautiful psychologist must help the son of an infamous archaeologist escape a mental asylum in order to resolve the 2,000 year old Mayan Calendar's prophesy of Doom and save humanity.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2010
    ISBN9781429910200
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    Steve Alten

    Steve Alten is the best-selling author of the MEG series - which was the basis for the feature film The Meg, starring Jason Statham - The Domain Trilogy, and standalone supernatural thrillers such as The Omega Project and Goliath. A native of Philadelphia, he earned a Bachelor’s degree from Penn State, a Masters from the University of Delaware, and a Doctorate from Temple University. He is the founder and director of Adopt-An-Author, a free nationwide teen reading program used in thousands of secondary school classrooms across the country to excite reluctant readers.

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    • 2/5
      I love Steve Alten's Meg series. I can't say the same about most of his "stand alone" books except for The Loch. The idea of the story line was good but it was very long winded in many places. Sorry Steve.
    • 2/5
      I started reading this book years ago when i was on a long distance bike trip and staying at a friends house for a few nights. I had never heard of the mayan doomsday prophecy or even of many of the ancient places in this book like the nazca plateau. I was horrified, i was intrigued. Unfortunately i had to leave before i could finish the book. It had ignited in me an intense curiosity of the mayans and their prophecy and i started learning all i could about both which led me to learning much more about the ancient world and its amazing structures. For that i'm very grateful that i came across this book. I finally tracked down the book again (i had forgotten both the title and authors name) and determined i would finish it. Of course i couldnt remember most of the story line so i had to read it all over again and what a disappointment it was. The characters are, each and every one of them, completely unbelievable and actually quite unlikeable, especially the main character Dominique. What a sniveling, whining, unimaginative, gullible excuse for a phycologist who could always be counted on to do the wrong thing, be the annoying screamer, and trust the wrong person. The writing was boring, too bogged down by wordy descriptions and excerpts from too many different peoples perspective that had little to nothing to do with the rest of the story. I found myself skipping or quickly skimming whole sections of the book, mostly the political scenes and the scenes where i could tell, following the previous pattern, that the person whose perspective it was written in was about to die. I read it, i managed to finish it, i'm relieved to be done with it. Finishing this book took a serious act of willpower, ugg.
    • 3/5
      Another book from my Dad's stack. This is a super fast read. I was very entertained by the story, but it's certainly no great piece of literature. I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the trilogy.
    • 4/5
      This book, for what it lacks in character development, keeps you interested in the story of ancient times impacting with the present. A mix of pseudo-archaeology, myth, love, and fantasy, this book may not change the way you think, but you will certainly enjoy your time reading it, as it is entertaining.
    • 4/5
      Well, I'm not a fan of "aliens built the pyramids " stories, but despite that, I'm impressed that Alten managed to A. interest me even though I'm not into his basic plot, and B. break out of the Peter Benchley mode. I liked it enough that I'll get the next one.
    • 5/5
      Sixty-five million years ago an a;steroid impacts the Earth, destroying the dinosaurs, forever changing the evolution of life on our planet. For thirty-to years archaeologist Julius Gabriel has investigated the Mayan calender, a 2500-year-old enigma of time and space that predicts humanity will perish at the winter solstice of 2012. Julius believes the Great Pyramid of Giza, Stonehenge, the desert drawings of Nazca, the sites of Angor Wat, Teotihuacan, and the Kukulcan Pyramid in the Yucatan Peninsula the site of the ancient asteroid impact, all represent ancient pieces of a global puzzle linked to the salvation of our species. Ridiculed by his peers, Julius dies before he can solve the doomsday prophecy. Now, only one person can prevent our annihilation, Julius's son, Michael, a patient locked up in a Miami mental asylum. Psychiatry major Dominique Vazquez reports to the Miami asylum to complete her graduate internship. The new director assigns her to a special patient, Mick Gabriel, a paranoid schizophrenic with a high IQ who attempts to charm her into believing his father's theory of the Apocalypse so he can escape. What Dominique doesn't realize is that she represents Mick's last hope of saving humanity. As it has done for a thousand years, a serpent's shadow appears on the northern balustrade of the Kukulcan Pyramid, then as a rare galactic alignment occurs, a deep space radio transmission reaches Earth, activating the remnants of an object buried in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the beginning of the end........