Books

"The Swarm" by Frank Schätzing.

The plot:

The world begins to suffer an escalating and sensational series of natural disasters, and two marine biologists begin to develop a theory that the cause lies in the oceans, where an entity know as the Yrr has developed a massive network of single-cell organisms. It is wreaking havoc in order to prevent humankind from destroying the earth's ecological balance forever.

The Americans, under the ruthless General Judith Lee, take a more pragmatic approach than the scientists, seeking to wipe out the being of the deep.

The scene is set for a massive confrontation...

Sounds pretty exciting, right? It's even a bestseller! Well, I'll be brutally honest...I've never hated a book like I hate this one.

I found it to be sooooo boring that I'd rather clean public toilets instead of reading this again. It had so many different complicated characters that I couldn't even remember who was who without rifling back through the book to refresh myself.

Also, the scientific jargon used could only be understood if you were a huge science buff or worked in that field. I'm not one who complains about a little bit of science, I do really like "Jurassic Park" or "Congo", but the lay person would struggle to follow "The Swarm."

I don't know if it just got translated poorly over from German, but it wasn't my cup of tea at all.