Zeke Chase's Reviews > Treasure of Khan

Personal Rating: 1.3 / 10

Abandoned.
The prologue began with some promise, but quickly descended from there. The authors chose to blather on endlessly instead of telling an orderly story. The characters were flat, and the prose was nearly unreadable.
To be fair to the Cusslers, I did ‘read’ the audiobook version, read by voice actor Scott Brick. Mr. Brick has precisely one emotion in his voice: ominous. It gets quite tedious quite quickly.
However, father and son Cussler do share much of the blame for my abandonment of this novel. Case and point, Clive Cussler, being one of the most successful authors of all time, chose to sell out on the art in order to get there. One doesn’t become a king of pulp without the approval of whom I call the MFCC: The Midwestern Fuckwad Censorship Caucus. As soon as Giordino said “What the heck?”, I knew I was in for some bad prose that accents characters so contrived they may as well have been plastic. Real people don’t talk like that.
Although I find the Khan Dynasty fascinating and the history surrounding it was well done, the incredibly tedious detour to Lake Baikal and the Cusslers’ inability to write intriguing characters or anything with more anatomical correctness than a Ken doll, I abandoned the book about a third of the way through.