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The Last Gospel (Hardcover)

by David Gibbins (Author)
2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
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  • Hardcover: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Headline; First Edition edition (21 Feb 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0755335147
  • ISBN-13: 978-0755335145
  • Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16.2 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
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History is full of secrets. Secrets that have remained hidden for thousands of years. And we have no idea what many of them are. We know they're there, under the ground, at the bottom of the ocean, hidden away, just waiting for someone to unlock them.

 

Enter Jack Howard, one of the greatest archaeologists of his day, a man who never stops believing, never gives up hope that out there might be the next big discovery. But when he and his best friend Costas are interrupted during a dive off the coast of Sicily that might possibly reveal the final journey of St. Paul, Jack has no idea what lies in store...

 

Their journey takes them to one of the great lost libraries of antiquity, destroyed by the eruption of Pompeii, into the heart of ancient Rome and the holiest sites of Jerusalem. Their quest? So earthshattering that there are men who would kill anyone and anything in their path to conceal this secret... the secret of the origins of Christianity itself, and of THE LAST GOSPEL.



About the Author

David Gibbins has worked in underwater archaeology all his professional life. After taking a PhD from Cambridge University he taught archaeology in Britain and abroad, and is a world authority on ancient shipwrecks and sunken cities. He has led numerous expeditions to investigate underwater sites in the Mediterranean and around the world. He currently divides his time between fieldwork, England and Canada.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Annoying archeologist and even more annoying side kick make improbable discoveries but refuse to make it adventurous, 10 Nov 2008
By Charlie Mount (West Yorkshire, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Last Gospel (Paperback)
Firstly let me nail my colours to the mast - I rather enjoyed David Gibbins earlier works, in fact this is the 3rd that I have bought. I've always been clear that they are somewhat limited, with incredibly annoying characters more than reminiscent of the Dirk Pitt adventures (I'm no fan of his either) The stories rely on the central protagonist having an in depth knowledge of every archeological dig / find ever, but you can forgive all of these short comings because when the adventure starts they really are good fun.
Now, I'm no best selling novelist, but I would imagine that when you come to your 3rd book you would look at what has worked in the previous 2 books and what hasn't worked, so in your 3rd book you add more of the former and remove some of the latter. In this way Gibbins has thrown us a curve ball - he has virtually removed all of the adventure and added page after page of tedious pseudo historical waffling.

I find it hard to understand how some of my fellow reviewers have stylised this as a page turner - I found myself on page 200 waiting for something to happen and ultimately made it to the final page with very little going on in between.

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Our hero is an all around good egg with ex girl friends working in every archeological dig in the world.
His side kick is very resourceful, tough and dependable, but fun.
Riddles that have lasted millennia can be deciphered in the course of less than a week, but only by the protagonist
A simple clue such as finding a coin minted in the time of the emperor Claudius will lead to an absolute deduction (correctly - surprise surprise) that the house we are in belonged to Claudius (I certainly have my limited edition stash of Charlie Mount coins ready for future generations to identify my home)
There will be absolutely no adventure - no sir - no way no how!
Despite the fact that the cover promises it and the protagonists remind us regularly there will be no menace, the bad guys will flit (very briefly) in and out of the prose, but will be about as menacing as my dogs favourite chew.

OK, you may have got the gist that I didn't enjoy this book, and joking aside it really is a shame. As I have already mentioned Gibbins earlier works were limited, but great fun and, so long as you don't want a historically accurate tale the they are to be recommended, but it seems that Mr Gibbins has run out of steam. His earlier books will make me try his next offering, but I sincerely hope that he has dropped the long prose, found another mechanism other than our hero's all around good guy ability to progress the plot and he has re embraced the rattling good passages of action that really hit me.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Very Disappointing, 8 Nov 2008
I love this genre of modern novels, solving puzzles, finding treasure, unearthing ancient secrets, mysteries that will shock the world when they are revealed - theres lots of them around and I thought this was what I was getting .

It was truly awful - great chunks of it were virtually unreadable historical diatribe , and seem more aimed to demonstrate the authors undoubted expertise in the field, than to add any credibility to the daft storyline. The great leaps towards solving the mystery, are dredged from the unbelievably encyclopaedic memory of the lead character, aided by paper thin characters dropping in and out of the story willy nilly. The dialogue between the lead characters was just completely unbelievable and dull to read. After flying half way round the world, climbing into an underground chamber and getting dressed up in diving suits for no explained reason , one character would say to the other " So why are we here ?" and this would be the cue for the other to launch into a 3 page description of some tenuous historical connection he had pieced together from memory. This happened over and over again.

There were a couple of tense moments as the leads blundered their way into various priceless historical sites ( think Team America go tombraiding ), but it very rapidly becomes repetitive and boring,

I stuck with it to the last page, in order to find out what would be unveiled - take my advice and dont bother - the dumb thing you might have imagined it being after reading the first few chapters - thats it !

Yawn.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars A 550 page history lecture with no charisma, 29 April 2009
By Venus (London) - See all my reviews
A complete yawnfest. This book (I'm reluctant to call it a novel) should have been called "look how much research I've done." The characters did not endear themselves to me, there is no action whatsoever, the big secret is a total anticlimax, and I felt like I was back in school tuning out while a personality-less teacher droned on and on. Utter toilet.

And did anyone else notice that the characters are always mumbling? By far the most annoying thing about this book. "Costas mumbled....Jack mumbled...." Go on, get a copy and flick to any page - I bet someone's mumbling!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Yawn
As a fan of religious & historically themed thrillers I was quite intrigued with the subject matter on offer. I then discovered I may as well have read a Roman history book. Read more
Published 7 days ago by A. Mehmet

2.0 out of 5 stars Marmite!
I read a lot of historical novels and books which delve back into history, and this is not one I would recommend. Read more
Published 1 month ago by DJW

2.0 out of 5 stars Early promise but soon runs out of steam
I was actually thoroughly enjoying this adventure story, well at least until around chapter 12 or so. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. A. Whiteside

1.0 out of 5 stars Yawn can I be bothered to read the whole thing
How can they compare the style of author to Indianna Jones I am on chapter 11 and have fallen asleep many times nothing much has happened and dont really care if anything does it... Read more
Published 2 months ago by D. Newstead

1.0 out of 5 stars Dog latin
I am only halfway through the book, but one thing is very clear - like Shakespeare, Gibbins has "small Latin and less Greek". Read more
Published 3 months ago by Pandemonic

5.0 out of 5 stars Great story very exicting
Better than Atlantis this a more exiting and facinating read. Will suit `boys' of any age from teenagers to men who love great adventure stories and tales of lost treasures
Published 4 months ago by Mr. Hugh Allen

2.0 out of 5 stars Ruled by the Ideas, not Story
Without giving too much away this is basically a treasure hunt for a special Gospel in much the same vein as The Da Vinci code in genre: action taking places in the present day... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Hagrid's Umbrella

2.0 out of 5 stars Gibbins' third is not first rate
I enjoyed Gibbins' first two adventure novels, enough to look forward to reading this one, his third. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mrs. A. F. Rhodes

1.0 out of 5 stars A turkey of genetically-modified proportions
Others have reviewed this absolute dog but I feel I owe any potential readers a duty to warn them off. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Ian Phillips

3.0 out of 5 stars More Eco than Dan Brown or Indiana Jones, slow, gripping late

But lacking Eco's finesse.

The prologue is great and full of promise. Than, as also the other reviewer pointed out, there was an overload of... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Elise (the polyglot )

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