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Taken
Taken
Author: Thomas H. Cook
ISBN-13: 9780739440476
ISBN-10: 0739440470
Publication Date: 2002
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2.9 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: Dell
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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reviewed Taken on + 18 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Novelization of the TV series by the same name. Never saw the series, so I can't compare it to the book. If you dig alien conspiracy theory stuff, you will probably enjoy this as a light read.
reviewed Taken on + 17 more book reviews
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MUCH more detailed than the mini series. Good Read!
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Unusual but very interesting.
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Not one of the best books I have ever read....never watched the TV show so have no idea if that is any better than the book!
reviewed Taken on
I've only just started this book, barely 50 pages into it, and already I feel "taken"... by the author and publisher who made it.

First, they can't even get the names straight. On the back of the book they give a brief blurb about the story, and they name three of the characters, Randall Keys, Owen Jones, and Sally Marsh. Unfortunately, those character names aren't actually in the story. Instead we have Russell Keys (not Randall), Owen Crawford (not Jones) and Sally Clarke (not Marsh). Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy!

Also, I've already found a couple of anachronisms in the story, such as plastic car models supposedly built from kits in the 1930's (not invented yet) and a reference to White Sands as an air base by a pair of nuns (it was top secret at the time, and was never used as an air base, it's a missile and rocket test range)and one character who, in very early July of 1947 recounts how he's been told stories about "flying saucers" all his life, a term that wasn't even coined until the week before that.

I'm simply not impressed with this book and I'm going to just repost it without finishing it.