Comments on: Interview With Author/Screenwriter Steve Alten

By: Lynn

Lynn — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:23:30 +0000

I love the Meg series. I kinda feel sorry for the megs. Humans belong on land, just another example of sticking their noses where they dont belong. It’s all about money!!! You and James Patterson are my favorite authors-you keep writing and I’ll keep buying!! I’m retired and waiting for your next book. Good luck to you….

By: Dee

Dee — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:43:28 +0000

Please make a distinction between this book and Jurassic Park: the latter was a great book, the former not so much. The film, supposedly in development, really needs to be different from the book, or it will not work. Seriously, a lot could be done with such a movie that could be truly scary, but the liklihood of taking advantage of all that could be utilized is unlikely.

About the fourth book, all I can say is it is not as good as the third book, which is not saying much. Sorry, fans, but the best book was the first one, which could have used a few more edits. And the fourth book also really should have been proofread by a competent proofreader: the text is a mess.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:52:01 +0000

the loch should be made into a film no doubt about it.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:52:51 +0000

Mr. Alten is the nicest person. I am a special ed teacher and had a resource class this spring with 5th graders who were struggling with reading so I chose something I thought they might enjoy reading. I chose Meg. Everyday, I read to them and they were so involved. We did lessons to go with the book and Mr. Alten let them ask him questions over the phone. I will forever be in his debt for that. I still email him once in awhile. I love the Meg books and I have read LOCH and it is also good. I don’t understand why they are being such weinies abouth the Meg movie. I think it would be great to see on the big screen. I am reading The Swarm right now by an author named Angsten and it is realllly good if you dig sea monsters and the sea. I go through phases every summer where I want to read sea themed novesl. I have heard Kronos is good too by Jeremey Robinson.

By: Heath McKnight

Heath McKnight — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:38:29 +0000

@Brent E: You’ll love Hell’s Aquarium even more.

Btw, in the trailer some of the FX are from Scanline VFX, who did a demo when the MEG movie was at New Line Cinema:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTaFzeyHRgA

It’s pretty cool, so check it out!

Heath

By: Brent E

Brent E — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:20:49 +0000

I haven’t read Hell’s Aquarium yet, but I thought Primal Waters was the best Meg book yet, so I’m looking forward to this next installment. I’ve been getting into this author lately, so it’s great to see an interview with him here on the site.

By: Heath McKnight

Heath McKnight — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:39:37 +0000

Jurassic Shark. It isn’t corny, trust me. You’ll notice a huge difference in quality between the original MEG book and the version that he re-wrote in 2005/06. I recommend the revised version. Also here’s a contest:

http://www.variancepublishing.com/meg-hells-aquarium-contest.html

Heath

By: nowhereman

nowhereman — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:22:26 +0000

I’m a big admirer of Mr. Alten’s writing and the books mentioned above are all worth the time to escape into. Really well concieved and delivered. Just to mention…
I think followers of this site would also enjoy F. PAUL WILSON’s “Repairman Jack” series. It begins with a rather hard to find book entitled “The tomb” and follows Jack through his experiences as a “situational repairman” that gets sucked into the world of the supernatural. I can’t reccomend these books strongly enough. I believe there are 9 or 10 books to date as the story continues.

By: Andy S

Andy S — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:40:38 +0000

@Daniel F…

Think of them as Jurassic Park of the ocean. The one I read was very very good.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:15:06 +0000

That Grim Reaper story sounds intersting .

By: Daniel F

Daniel F — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:58:57 +0000

Alot of these sound like really cool story ideas, but I’m not so sure about the MEG series.

“follows the adventures of Jonas Taylor and his family, and a giant Carcharodon Megalodon (or MEG), a 70-foot long prehistoric great white shark that escapes from the deep.”

That sounds a little to corny to me, but I’m very in to Nessy. I’m Irish so to me anything about good ole nessy is just exciting and enjoyable. The others sound like fantastic stories as well. AI stories are usually pretty good and I enjoy a good political thriller every now and again. Maybe if I heard more about MEG, but it sounds just out of my realm of interest.

By: Heath McKnight

Heath McKnight — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:18:48 +0000

@Andy S You’ll absolutely love The Loch and the other MEG books. heck, Alten is just a great writer–check out all of his work.

heath

By: Andy S

Andy S — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:34:26 +0000

I read Primal Waters and I thought it was excellent. I will be sure to pick up his other novels, especially “The Loch.” I’m a big fan of the Loch Ness Monster story and used to love the episode of “In Search of…” when it was about Nessie.

If anyone likes really good action book reading with some science thrown in, check out James Rollins. He has some great stuff that blows Dan Brown away. “Map of Bones” is similar to “DaVinci” without ticking off the Catholics. LOL. Would probably be a great movie, too.