This book was very informative about the New Madrid Earthquake. It had great detail about the earthquake and is a great resource for term papers. I would highly recommend this book to students who are doing papers for Earthscience courses with there main interest of the New Madrid Earthquake.

Gives a chilling account of the most powerful series of earthquakes to rattle North America and warns they will come again. Told in the context of how the temblors effected contemporay people, places and events, but also offers an excellent historical perspective. Contains startling information that more people should know. A text book that reads like a good novel.

If this book doesn't shake you up, nothing will - except maybe a real earthquake, and it would have to be a strong one at that. Here is a book that has everything. History, adventure, inventions, folk lore, scientific revelations, and earthquakes of course. All of it told very well.

You would like to know about the largest U. S. earthquake in modern history, of course, or you wouldn't be looking at this review. But would you also like to know of the connection between a Roosevelt and the first river steamer? Would you like to know about the overall relationship and some particular relationships between American Indians and the settlers? Or a lot more about Thomas Jefferson? Would you like to know what life was like on the western frontier near the Mississippi? Or a lot more about the Richter scale? Or probably more about geography than you might know now? And of course more about geology? I could continue this inquiry for much longer. But why should I? Just get the book and read it to take a delightful journey through Americana while learning about earthquakes (as well as what you can do about them).

carson really spent his time well on this one. the witness accounts were riviting; as well as the photos and various illustrations. This book is a must read for anyone intrested in sizmec events.

I found this book to be quite interesting and easy to read. It gives a detailed eye-witness account to the destruction caused by the series of earthquakes in the early 1800's. If you are looking for a technical book about the Rift Zone, this book is not for you because it does not go into much detail about the fault itself. However, it does tell of the relation of the current geology and how it was effected by the earthquakes. Generally, I found this book very enjoyable and I suggest it for anyone who is interested in the learning more about the potential hazards that lie below the Mississippi Valley.

This book does an excellent job of describing the recent history of the New Madrid fault, and the impact of recorded earthquakes in that area.

The book also serves as an effective planning guide for government agencies, businesses, and indiviuals. Proper preparation is critical if this now highly developed region is to survive another earthquake or series of earthquakes such as those that occured in 1811-12.

The New Madrid Run

The post-apocalypse genre of novels has always been one of my guilty pleasures. (My wife kids me that it's a "sure sign of a sick mind.") While this novel doesn't rank with "Lucifer's Hammer," "The Stand," "Alas, Babylon," or "Warday," I enjoyed it nevertheless.

I noted in some previous reviews that some readers found cause to savage Mr. Reisig's writing abilities. To a degree, I concur with some of them. (Although certainly not to the extent that I'd agree with one reviewer that his writing is "amateurish.") The sentence structure is awkward at times, the dialog doesn't always flow so well, and character development is a little sketchy.

However, those limitations notwithstanding, the story line of this novel has loads of punch, and Mr. Reisig's spare, direct, journalist's style fairly careens the reader through the plot. The author seems much less infatuated with the thesaurus than most new novelists, and that's refreshing in itself.

All in all, I found "The New Madrid Run" pretty doggone engrossing, and for readers who enjoy this genre, that's recommendation enough. HJ

This novel is based on the theory by Richard Noone that an alignment of the planets on 5-5-2000 will shift the earth's rotating axis and possibly cause massive earthquakes and tsunamis. Well, obviously that has not happened (yet), but who knows what disasters await us in the future, man-made or not.

Nevertheless, this story is a fascinating account, how the survivors meet, and how they managed in a hostile world after the loss of civilization. One of them, Carlos, will have you laughing a lot. Travis Christian is the principle character, and with him as with the others character development is excellent. Travis was an owner of a charter air service in the Florida Keys before the catastrophe, and attempts to lead a group of survivors out of harms way. At times (most of the book) the story will have you turning the pages to see what happens, as I found myself caring for these characters. If you like action, there is plenty of it here.

This is a high adventure story that could (and may) happen! A story of a castastrophic occurance that is plausable and even predicted by some scientists due to an alignment of the planets in the near future, this book details with amazing clarity the struggle of survival by a small group of people who banded together to travel to a safe haven where they can start their lives over. The book will hold your interest. In fact, you may find, like me, that you will probably lose some sleep because you just can't put it down! The story had me envisioning every situation as it unfolded and I constantly had to " find out what happened" before I could put it down. This is a "must read" book that screams to be made into a movie...

That book is the worst book I have ever read. It is full of violence and killing. It is THE worst mystery book ever made. I think that Grady should be taken off the market.

I enjoyed this book. I am a huge fan of mysteries, especially mysteries like this one. P.J. Grady is a fine story teller, and he captures the multicultural aspects of the American southwest perfectly. Deadly Sin is an excellent book.

There were so many things wrong about this book that I don't really know where to start. I guess I'll start with the fact that it seemed odd that the author chose to make her main character, Laurel, fifteen years old when the book was written at an upper elementary school reading level and is suggested for grades four and up. Covering the same topic is the fact that there is a romance in the story. It didn't really seem like a storyline that would interest the age level this book is targeted to. Not only that, but the romance happened much to quickly and had absolutley no feel to it. In fact, I didn't care much about anything in this book. The characters were all poorly developed and one-dimensional. Laurel had a bit more development than the others, but that was probably only because she was the main character. When I read a book, I usually become immersed in the story and care about what happens to the characters. Not so in this book. In fact, the only thing I cared about was that the book end quickly. Which it did at around 85 pages. It's a shame this novel was so poorly written, since it was based around an intresting historical event - the Missouri earthquakes in 1811 and 1812 - that few books have been written about.