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I've learned one thing from this video. If you want to trigger people, lightly criticize dime-store novels you find at dentist's offices. Good thing you don't have a problem with Goofus and Gallant, else you would REALLY have upset comments!

It is called poetic licence Mr.Taylor and Clive has written over 80 novels and sold millions of books.What have YOU achieved? Zilch zero nothing !

I have a bookcase that contains EVERY book Clive has written and pre-ordered his next. Superb writing , hard to put down once started and Clive does not say his name in the books

Friday 13th of 2024 is today!!!! 🥲

It not uncommon for creators to put themselves in the story. Alfred Hitchcock made it a game with the audience to see where he would pop up.

I guess you didnt like Stan Lee in every marvel movie

The only thing about Clive Cussler books I fund infuriating is when people leaped and Sleeped and Dived instead of Leapt, Slept, and Dove! The rest of the stuff keeps me engaged. I've read every single book in the Oregon Files, Dirk Pitt, Numa Files, and Sam and Remi Fargo book. I haven't been able to get into the Issac Bell books, but I have them all, and I've read them all multiple times. Yes it cracks me up when he shows up in every book except the Oregon Files. But I will correct you. It is a rare occasion if he actually introduces himself until the end of their encounter, or they see his name on a placard, or a piece of paper. Yes, maybe it's corny. Tell that to Alfred Hitchcock, and Peter Jackson, who insist on being in their movies.

Give Deep Six a try. Absolute masterpiece and no he didn’t write himself in

Thank you so much for this review. You are saying everything that I’ve been thinking about this book for the past couple of month. Cheers to a very well articulated video

Just a god awful opinion 😂I haven’t read 1 of your books before? Noodle

The Oregon Files!!!!! End of story 👍

As we say in Russian: "Сколько людей, столько и мнений.", which means "opinions differ" or something like "the amount of points of views equal the amount of people". I, personally, love Mr.Cussler's books. They are masterpieces.

Who are you? I know Cussler.

The old retort comes to life; If you so smart, why aint you rich?

May be 3 years later but thought id say this. So you hate cameos guess you hate mcu or dc cause guess what cameos are in all of those. I have read you book no offense ment but it wasn't great definitely not the worst but not good a dective stumbles into a crime syndicate and has to solve it. 1000 upon 1000 of the same story just slightly different. So instead of hateing an authour who found his niche find yours kinda hopeing you will write another book that fits your niche.

Clive Custer was an interesting guy but a third rate writer. His non-fiction has to be better than his fiction which is cliched and formulaic. I like Ian Fleming much more. For one thing his Bond novels are not over-written.

Clive Cussler is one of the few authors in the world who can successfully write himself into one of his stories. He does that in all of his books.

Lol, so true....but I love it. RIP C-dawg

Every author writes what he knows best and writes himself into whatever he's writing, intentional or otherwise.

The guy found the Hunley and a lot more !!

Atlantis Found. That's the one. The driver of the snow mobile

as a writer lets hope you don't repeat yourself as much as you do here. or contradict yourself as much. or..well, this is just a dumb and pretty much inarticulate review.

What impresses me is Clancy’s ability to tie so many seemingly unrelated sub-plots together. Absolutely outstanding.

I have read and loved them all. Tuff you don't like them. Don't expect me to read.any of yours.

Really good review, thank you

Clive Cussler kinda lived the life he writes about, at least the explorer part. NUMA is a real organization because of Clive.

I just listened to the Audiobook and looked for reviews with yours popping up. I thought it was fine, but I do think it was too long. The audiobook was 20 hours or so and a lot could have been taken out. Slice of life and other info is fine, but do we have to always be reminded Lou is fat (or not so much). I didn't dislike Manx and Bing initially, but there were some hijinks later that seemed out of place with the overall tone.

15 and just got this for christmas :) so excited to read it. i really understand the want to read books that are already there and classic. awesome video! thanks

Ps: clive also used a lot of money to bring up shipwrecks and gives them to museums. He has 2 books that are non-fiction.

Clive doesn't always write himself into his books. As a clive fan , I absolutely loved it! Before you say you don't like clive, put down the dirk Pitt and pick up "oregon files." And to be a bit of a smart ass; clive wrote himself in his book, and you named your TH-cam channel with your name, and you announce yourself as an author. How's that different? 😀

I agree with some of what you said but the fact that there's some crossover between this book and Stephen King works is a unique aspect that worked for me. Stephen King himself includes characters and locations in his writing which is borrowed from other works of fiction and included in his "multiverse" I won't spoil anything but the idea of a multiverse is kind of integral to Stephen King's writing. Stephen King has even featured Joe Hill in one of his books as a kind of character on the periphery of the story so I think it works.

Fair assessment.

Great advice!

I like Clive writing himself in. He always assumes a small part and it’s more or less a running joke

What we need is to shift culture away from money for the sake of money. My “hobby” is my full time career now, but I wouldn’t be able to do this to the degree that I do if I WASN’T making money off of it. Structure breaks me down. What little energy I’d have left would be for getting physical activity in after work, and this TH-cam channel wouldn’t exist. Not because I don’t have fun, but because society demands we “pay the bills”.

Can't wait for your books to see if you are any good

I agree with your take on Neuromancer. A glossary would've helped when I read it as a teen, haha. Thanks to playing games like Shadowrun and such later on tho, the 2nd time I read it in my 20s it was an easier read. Now as I am reading it again in my 40s I get a clearer picture of the themes and such. Very confusing tho to just be dropped in to that world when you first read it. 100% spot on take.

Have you read any Matthew Reilly. Ice Station? I have read James Rollins Ice Hunt book your reviewing. James is one of my favorite authors. But Matthew Reillys Scarecrow is very entertaining for a story about a marine and his team. Definatley 5 stars. Let me know.

Im listening to Shockwave and Dirk does have a moment thinking of the twins mum and it states they had a short affair but both had different life loves and knew it wouldnt last when hes also thinking of Maeve. I love that CC turned up in his books. The books are fun to read. I love the old cars that Dirk owns or finds. Why do you Americans call it the Artic? Its Arctic. And its not Anartic but Antarctic! We all have people we love to read. I adore Clive Cussler and have for 20+ years. First book I red was Flood Tide. The thing I like about CC is the things in the books can easily be reality like White Death about geneticly modified salmon and he mentions a sheep created in New Zealand at Lincold university. Dolly the sheep was cloned. I love the different character groups. Dirk and Al, Juan and The Coperation, Issac Bell and Van Dorn, Sam and Remny and Curt and Joe. Fun books.

I heard somewhere that men are described in lit by their emotions, women by their hair color. Clive Cussler was the first author I read that illustrated that 💀💀💀

Keep mowing yards. That’s your financial future.

I recently stumbled upon your video and all I can say is… THANK YOU! I’ve never given Clive Cussler or his family a single penny of my own money nor have I given him a moment of my free time reading any of his books. I have, however, given him a moment at the public libraries checking out his audiobooks. I listened to them, while driving, in order of publication. Though I don’t remember which book he first wrote himself into, I do remember my initial reaction to it. I thought it was vain albeit interesting. Until his appearance in the next book, then the next, and so on… it became eye rolling dribble. I felt quite let down and balked at the idea. The stories were fun(ish) and held my attention. Though I didn’t run any red lights or stop signs. I also was pretty put off by his characterization and representation of women. How they dressed, how they acted, how they reacted… And to my final point, [spoiler alert] the Twins. The twins, a boy and a girl. Of course when Dirk meets them they are in their early twenties. The boy, Dirk Pitt Jr. bearing an identical appearance to that of his father, and the girl, Summer Pitt, bearing a striking resemblance to their “late” mother. A mother whom I might add, was NEVER in a situation where the baby making process with Dirk Pitt would have ever occurred! They were together briefly, in no romantic way whatsoever, and then she “died” at the end of the book. Clive Cussler laughed his way to the grave knowing full well that he duped many of his loyal, paying readers. I read as many of the earlier comments as I could and one struck a cord with me regarding speaking ill of the deceased. And I have this to say: If you sucked in life, that’s not going to change in death.

I still struggle to understand why someone would create a 15 minute video ranting about how much better another writer is than them….. never heard of you, wont be finishing this video, (got to 5 minutes) and wont be looking for any of your books cos you’ve already admitted your plots are not very good. On a constructive note, many writers are writing themselves into their movies too. Wasn’t Hitchcock the first one?

Well, of course people with low intelligence are incapable of enjoying Clive Cussler books. Don't worry little buddy. Go grab yourself a copy of the Berenstain Bears. That might be more to your speed.

The defensive Cussler fans here are hilarious. Yes something can be fun and thrilling while also being well written. The reason Indiana Jones is great is because it’s fun and thrilling but also because it elevates a pulpy genre to something genuinely well-made and cinematic. I’ve liked a couple of Clive Cussler novels but he isn’t a good writer. Ian Fleming wrote pulp but it felt classy, he never needed to put himself in the story to get James Bond out of a tough situation. Having a couple of generic formulaic stories is ok but after dozens of books you have to be truly sycophantic to keep reading a rich old man’s trashy power fantasies. I have to wonder if readers who accept bad writing because it’s “fun” realize that there’s plenty of fun adventure stories that are well written.

I so agree with you !! How can someone be so vain to put himself in as this “ hero / saviour” like really ? It’s so cringy ! Lol !

Good review!👍👍👍📚🤖🚀

It's not in every book 😂 I've read the first 4 or 5 Dirk Pitt books and this did not happen.

Nah, "Joe Hill" is definitely riding daddy's coattails. Also, I just didn't care for the book at all. Feel asleep during the audiobook.

Cussler wrote the first cameo of himself for his 10th Dirk Pitt novel (Dragon) as a joke for his editor, and expected it to be removed. It wasn't, and that was the start of that particular running gag. The first few were simple cameos, but later they became more contrived with him actually saving the characters or giving them vital information in some improbable way. I don't particularly like it, but since I read the series in order of appearance, it didn't bother me that much. However, I can imagine it breaking immersion if you jump in later in the series, when it had become more of a literal deus ex machina moment. I think he'd gotten a bit carried away with the cameo gag at that point.