Ice Station [Paperback]

Matthew Reilly (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Pan MacMillan (1999)
• ISBN-10: 0330360892
• ISBN-13: 978-0330360890
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (342 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,406,840 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Matthew Reilly is the international bestselling author of eight novels: The 6 Sacred Stones, 7 Deadly Wonders, Ice Station, Temple, Contest, Area 7, Scarecrow, and the children's book Hover Car Racer, and one novella, Hell Island. His books are published in more than eighteen languages in twenty countries, and he has sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide.

Customer Reviews

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49 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well, I really enjoyed the ride!, May 14, 2004

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This review is from: Ice Station (Mass Market Paperback)

The things that irked other reviewers didn't bother me a bit. Sure it was unbelievable...geez...why pick up an action thriller if you want a documentary? Ice Station was definitely action-packed, and the characters were well drawn, especially for a first novel. I won't recount the story, as that's been done over and over, but will rather point out what I found enjoyable. The main character was likeable. The setting was exciting--I love arctic adventures. I felt like reading this book was a brief vacation from day-to-day life. It held my interest from beginning to end. I did notice the grammatical errors, but my purpose in reading it was to have a good time, and that I did! I notice that readers of this book also read Rollins--I'm certainly one of those. If you can set reality aside and allow your imagination to roll with the book, you won't be disappointed.

38 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an action book not literature., February 4, 2005

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This review is from: Ice Station (Mass Market Paperback)

Usually, I like a book to challenge the way I think and feel. I like books to help me to be smarter or better. This is not one of those books. The author never pretends to be that kind of author. He is the kind of author you wish wrote the screenplays for action movies. He is a very young man, and writes the kind of stuff those appeals to him. Each of his books cover a very small period of time, usually less than a couple of days, because there is so much exciting action it would take a series of books to cover a week in one. Ice station is fun to read. The characters are really bad or really good the way people aren't, you always know who to hate and who to love. There are some great one liners that will make you laugh, and so much action you will finish this book in one reading. So if you want a fun action story that will not change your life, not tax your brain, but will keep you entertained... This is a book for you.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Reilly's Spoof, November 3, 2000

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This review is from: Ice Station (Hardcover)

I was on the floor laughing by the time I finished this comic book. Reilly has done an outstanding job of spoofing all the Die Hard, Ah-nold, 007, Indiana Jones movies all in one book. His hero Schofield survives bullets, knives, killer whales, falls off 300 foot cliffs, mutant seven ton seals and a nuclear blast. As a techno-thriller genre it deserves zero stars, but as a spoof it gets five. This will make a great movie. Stick to screen plays, Reilly--novels aren't your talent.