- Hardcover: 450 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins (Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060188863
- ISBN-13: 978-0060188863
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.5 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,319,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the year 2007, scientists are accompanied by a team of Navy SEALs to position critical tectonic equipment on a deserted island in the Gal apagos and find themselves immersed in a world-shaping battle for survival.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
Started with Gregg's later work, so decide to read him from the beginning.
His 1st book The Tower was quite good, but the story line in this book is so ridiculous it just has to be made into a B movie.
Navy Seals loosing all their ammo????
Boxes and boxes of Dynamite and still 4 more die?
However, some of the characters are good, if obviously stereotypical.
Could have been so much better.
I gave it three stars because of the main character and and if you read it solely through her eyes, I suppose it's not a complete waste of time.
This book annoyed and frustrated me, perhaps that was the objective?
His 1st book The Tower was quite good, but the story line in this book is so ridiculous it just has to be made into a B movie.
Navy Seals loosing all their ammo????
Boxes and boxes of Dynamite and still 4 more die?
However, some of the characters are good, if obviously stereotypical.
Could have been so much better.
I gave it three stars because of the main character and and if you read it solely through her eyes, I suppose it's not a complete waste of time.
This book annoyed and frustrated me, perhaps that was the objective?
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A Refined Second Effort
26 July 2001
Format:Hardcover
Gregg Andrew Hurwitz's Minutes to Burn is a fantastic sophmore effort. From the first pages, he grabs you by the seat of the pants and takes you on a thrilling ride through the Galapagos Islands. With rounder and more complex characters than his debut effort The Tower, Minutes to Burn shows the maturing of a fantastic up and coming author. Each word hits like a body blow, leaving you gasping for air, but reaching to turn the next page.
Set a few years in the future, on the archipelego that Darwin made famous, Minutes to Burn details a story of hunters becoming hunted. Evoking a terror similar to The Most Dangerous Game, a crew of Navy SEALS and scientists encounter Jurassic Park type monsters caused by a runaway virus. Stripped of weapons, the teams are left to fend for themselves. The suspenseful finish proves Darwin right; only the fittest survive.
If you are a suspense/thriller fan, this is a book, and author, worth burning a few minutes on.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A thrilling page-turner!
25 July 2001
Format:Hardcover
Minutes to Burn is a fast-paced, intelligent glimpse into the near future. Somtimes frightening, sometimes humorous with a biting edge, Hurwitz clearly has a gift for spinning a good scientific adventure tale. From the opening description of a cow being killed by a mysterious creature, I was hooked. The group of Navy SEALS are well developed and even the women characters are well written. The book was obvioulsy thoroughly researched and covers a broad range of topics...making it appealing for a wide range of readers. The frenetic pace, set against the altered ecosystem makes for an exciting read. This work can be compared to that of Crichton, particularly to Jurassic Park. As in his last book, Hurwitz is a very visual writer, and you can just imagine the story unfolding on the big screen.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Is this gonna be a stand-up fight or 'nother bug hunt, sir?
5 Aug 2002
Format:Mass Market Paperback
In the near future our dreadful mismanagement of the planet has led to grim consequences. The ozone layer is all but gone and people can only go outside if they have SPF 100 sunblock and UV-proof contact lenses. Earthquakes have now begun to shake the ground with alarming regularity and economic crises and war are rampant.
In this grim future a very odd team of Navy SEALs has been ordered to escort a pair of scientists to a remote island to conduct tests and set up measuring instruments. The SEALs are sent because some of the villagers on the island have turned up dead or are missing. The locals are claiming that their animals and people have been the victims of... a monster!
This then sets the stage for what becomes a story that reads of like a literary stew, borrowing themes from other stories we have all come to know like Hot Zone, Predator, Aliens and so on, with a pinch of Tom Clancy for seasoning. But, like most stews, it has a tendency to be somewhat bland.
I wanted very much to like this book more than I did but it was tough at times. The book definitely has an eco-agenda; wagging its finger at us in stern warning of what will happen if we all don't stop mistreating Mother Earth. It is written well enough but not spectacularly so. I found the characters to be a bit thin in places and on the ragged edge of being too stereotypical. The plot was good -- if standard for this genre --and was presented in a way to be believable without relying on too many incredulous plot contrivances.
The author knows his science well enough to make the technical and medical parts seem genuine. I wasn't impressed with his vision of our Navy SEALs in the future. The team seemed to be more like a chain gang than a group of highly trained Special Forces professionals; their bickering, backbiting and personal issues seemed overplayed at times.
I also thought the book was about 100 pages too long. It started out fine but then it hit a flat spot in the middle that just kept going and going with nothing much happening other than speeches by the scientists about species protection and other eco-babble and the endless squabbling between the SEALs. Then it ramps up quickly, the body count rises and then it's over.
This book tries to be good and succeeds here and there, but all in all it is not a book that I would read again.
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