Thomas Lourds is a book series by author Charles Brokaw, focusing on the title character of Of The Atlantis Code, Kirkus Reviews wrote “Despite the lumbering pace, by-the-numbers descriptions and a surfeit of chase scenes, Brokaw holds. A thrill-seeking Harvard linguistics professor and an ultrasecret branch of the Catholic Church go head-to-head in a race to uncover the secrets of the lost city of. Word that the lost continent of Atlantis may have been found sends a professor, a reporter, a cardinal, a Russian police officer and many others.
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A thrill-seeking Harvard linguistics professor and an ultrasecret branch of the Catholic Church go head-to-head in a race to uncover the secrets of the lost city of Atlantis. While world-famous linguist and archaeologist, Thomas Lourds, is shooting a film that dramatizes his flamboyant life talantis scientific achievements, satellites spot impossibly ancient ruins along the Spanish coast.
Lourds knows exactly what it means: The race is on, and Lourds’ challengers will do anything to get there first. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Brooaw to Read saving….
Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Chatles Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Whoever controls the Lost Continent will control the world. Hardcoverpages. Published November 10th xharles Forge books first published To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
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Lourds is a Harvard linguist who goes up against a secret Catholic church society that is trying to protect it’s knowledge. The church has professionals kill people to retrieve two artifacts, one of which Lourds was inspect and the other one of his Russian colleagues. Lourds goes after the artifacts. I personally didn’t enjoy this one because I felt it was cheesy with it’s church secrets where they’re out to kill people over preserving their knowledge from the public and the whole thing where Lo Lourds is a Harvard linguist who goes up against a secret Catholic church society that is trying to protect it’s knowledge.
I personally didn’t enjoy this one because I felt it was cheesy with it’s church secrets where they’re out to kill people over preserving their knowledge from the public and the whole thing where Lourds is a handsome charming Harvard professors who all the women want.
In the beginning view spoiler [ when the women 15 years younger is just basically mounting him??? I couldn’t buy anything that was happening in the book.
This book just wasn’t for me, but I’m sure someone else may enjoy it. View all 23 comments. Feb 12, James rated it liked it Shelves: At the airport, I checked a few novels out at the bookshop and stumbled across this one. I love treasure hunter stories. I am fascinated by the connections authors find between history, religion and missing things.
This time, it’s the lost continent and treasures of Atlantis. I had read another book with a similar theme and wanted to see how they compared. Bought it and boarded the plane shortly afterwards. I think I read about half on the flight out and finished it on the way home. Was a short 2 day trip and I couldn’t read for all 6 hours on the plane All in all, I liked the book.
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Coxe of great connections. Lots of suspicious behavior. It was your typical novel of this genre. Nothing bad, nothing fantastic. Just a basic good read.
And that’s a good thing You just need to be the right audience. There are a lot of books out there on this topic and in this genre. If you like Atlantis, read it. You’ll have a great time. If broaw don’t, maybe pick something else. It’s very dark when it comes to the religious aspects.
I liked it for that reason, but it does get overplayed a lot. Villains come wtlantis all shapes and sizes. I’d like to see something new in another book like this.
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May 26, Briar’s Reviews rated it really liked it Shelves: It’s definitely a great spin on this genre and was very intriguing. I’m really interested in seeing how this series continues if I ever get my hands on the books! If I could give this book a lower rating I would. I finished it because it was a free advance copy and I felt compelled to write a review.
The characters are one-dimensional, the dialog is trite, and the writing is poor. I did like the premise of this book, which is the discovery of a site in Spain that could be the ancient land of Atlantis.
What follows is a silly romp through through 5 or 6 countries to find an artifact that will lead to the secret. And of course the bad guy is a Cardinal in t If I could give this book a lower rating I would.
And of course the bad guy is a Cardinal in the Vatican who will stoop to evil including murder when he runs over a young priest with his car to obtain the ancient artifacts. Even after finishing the book I don’t understand why the Cardinal wanted to be first to get the “secret”. The website says the author is a scholar and he states that he did research for this book.
The research is pretty thin and could have been gained after an hour on Google. The story takes place in but the technology is basic.
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One character is using a Micro Flash Drive and another downloads pictures from the Internet to his camera. The author’s name might also be a trick to draw readers Brokaw. I need a brolaw more from a book. To sum up, don’t bother. Mar 21, Amy L. Campbell rated it did not like it Shelves: It’s nice to see that misogyny is still alive and well. And can apparently even get published.
Lourds is a fairly reprehensible character. I had no desire to see him triumph in any of his endeavors. And by the end of the book, if they had all died, the only one I would have lamented would have been Gary who was decidedly less of a character and more of an chharles tacked on for comic relief. Brokaw’s wet-dream written large might have been acceptable if the female characters hadn’t actuall It’s nice to see that misogyny is still alive and well.
Brokaw’s wet-dream written large might have been acceptable if the female characters hadn’t actually been worthy of loathing. Of the three three! And sadly I think the reason she’s so likable is that Lourds isn’t slavering over her because she is a Wife and a Mother, and therefore immune to his salacious view of women.
Oh, and apparently he respects her for her intellect, even though she is a “mere woman. I think this sentence sums atlantsi up pretty well, ” Lourds had to smile at the young woman’s naivete. For all that she was a ‘worldly’ television journalist – and probably well traveled in her own right – the world remain a big unimagined place for her. She hadn’t seen as much of it as she believed. We meet Natasha, that’s what.
Natasha is the antithesis of Leslie. Except she’s still willing to sleep with Lourds why, who knows, because she can and the author wants her to.
THE ATLANTIS CODE by Charles Brokaw | Kirkus Reviews
She’s calm and cool and competent and I still don’t like her. Mostly because she still thinks Lourds is hot shit, despite the fact that she could do way better, and it would be totally out of character for her to actually atalntis with someone while her life is in danger. WTF, you people can’t keep it in your pants while you’re being hunted down by assassins? I’m actually surprised that there wasn’t a knock down, epic catfight that turned into a lesbian sex scene between Leslie and Natasha.