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THE END OF THE WORLD IS HERE

Unlocking the secret of the Seven Ancient Wonders was only the beginning...

After their thrilling exploits in Matthew Reilly's rampaging New York Times bestseller, 7 Deadly Wonders, supersoldier Jack West Jr. and his loyal team of adventurers are back, and now they face an all-but-impossible challenge.

A mysterious ceremony in an unknown location has unraveled their work and triggered a catastrophic countdown that will climax in no less than the end of all life on Earth.

But there is one last hope.

If Jack and his team can find and rebuild a legendary ancient device known only as the "Machine," they might be able to ward off the coming armageddon. The only clues to locating this Machine, however, are held within the fabled Six Sacred Stones, long lost in the fog of history.

And so the hunt begins for the Six Sacred Stones and the all-important knowledge they possess, but in the course of this wild adventure Jack and his team will discover that they are not the only ones seeking the Stones and that there might just be other players out there who don't want to see the world saved at all.

From Stonehenge in England to the deserts of Egypt to the spectacular Three Gorges region of China, The 6 Sacred Stones will take you on a nonstop roller-coaster ride through ancient history, modern military hardware, and some of the fastest and most mind-blowing action you will ever read.

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4 out of 5 stars

STOP THE PRESSES! Armageddon is near! January 5, 2008
22 out of 24 found this review helpful

This was my first Matt Reilly book and I must say it is the most absurd, silly book I have ever read. He makes up ancient history as he goes along, forming it to whatever will fit his plot line (which is pretty thin!). All that being said, I could not put the dang thing down once I started. The Six Sacred Stones is a high octane thrill ride that never lets up. The key to enjoying this book is think comic book, if you are expecting a thriller based on the possible, and having some shred of actual fact behind it, do not look here. But if you like non-stop action and adventure with thrilling cliff hanging suspense you can't miss here! I now have to go back and try Reilly's other books: Temple, Ice Station, andScarecrow

5 out of 5 stars

Unbelievable but in a good way January 23, 2008
15 out of 17 found this review helpful

This is for those who have not read Matthew Reilly. This is your typical sifi-occult-dungeon and dragons-ancient history-techno-thriller. And I am not joking about that. Remember the old movie SPEED? It had three action scenes in it, enough for three movies. Well this is like that but more and bigger. Your jaw drops with each action scene. You wonder how he can top that one and quess what? He does. Reilly is Australian and that plays an important part in his writings. For you see, he has found the new enemy, the new bad guy, the new villian-us the US. As a matter of fact the Arabs are one of the good guys. YOu need to read 7 Deadly Wonders before you read this one because Reilly refers back to it often. I have read all of his books and they are all except for one deal with old world lengends. It is like sitting through a lecture by Indiana Jones. Clive Clusser use to be the leader in this type of lituratue, but he has grown old and soft. Reilly is the new leader is non stop action. I know it is over the top but boy is it fun to read. I don't think we will see a Reilly novel made into a movie anytime soon. The cost of the action scenes would be extremely high and to costly for studios. Give this a try, you won't be sorry.

5 out of 5 stars

great adventure January 17, 2008
13 out of 17 found this review helpful

I just finished reading this book not ten minutes ago, and wanted to give my opinion of it. I enjoyed it immensely. I know there are a lot of critics of Matthew Reilly's writing style, and I've rendered my opinion on that matter in another review for his book The Seven Deadly Wonders, so I won't repeat myself here. I will say that this book was so much fun and very exciting from start to finish, and I did enjoy the cliffhanger ending, which makes me all the more excited to see how it turns out. I love a good adventure story, and as I tell everyone who inquires, Matthew Reilly is the best pure action writer out there. I have all of his books at home and have thoroughly enjoyed reading his style of escapist storytelling. I enjoy Mr. Reilly's books for what they are: pure adrenaline. And please keep it coming.

4 out of 5 stars

Pure Escapism January 4, 2008
11 out of 20 found this review helpful

Matthew Reilly was born in Sydney in 1974. He studied Law at the University of New South Wales. He has written both screenplays and magazine articles. His second and third novels, Ice Station and Temple, became No. 1 bestsellers in his native Australia, and went on to enjoy huge success internationally. The author lives in Sydney.

The book was written to entertain and excite the reader and it certainly did that for me. If the author bends the rules a little and does not stick rigidly to ancient history as it has been written down by the scholars, then so what. For those who have an interest in Ancient History, myself included it may offend a little. But speaking personally I don't see why it should. After all the book is a novel and does not purport to be anything else.

This book follows the Seven Ancient Wonders and continues in the same vein. A team of adventurers led by jack West junior face a number of challenges in an attempt to save the world from imminent disaster. These books are pure escapism and you either like them or you don't. I am not ashamed to admit that I do like this kind of book if it is reasonably well written and this author is among a small group which includes James Rollins and Dan Brown, among others, who usually make a pretty good stab at it.

In this story Jack and his team have to rebuild an ancient device, that will of course save the world. The trouble is before they can start they need to find the long lost Six Sacred Stones. Of course they are not the only ones looking for the stones . . . The Hunt for the stones takes the team from Stonehenge in England, to the sands of Egypt and on to China.

Yes I know, it's so tried and tested that you almost know what is going to come next but this just seems to make the book more readable, don't ask me why. I certainly would not want to read this type of book all the time but the odd one now and again is a light relief from the every day chores of life.

1 out of 5 stars

Little more than a Bargain Bin page-turner January 16, 2008
10 out of 16 found this review helpful

The 6 Sacred Stones is a Bargain Bin page-turner,
and little more.

For all it's outlandish contrivances, overblown prose
and techno-military fetishism, The 6 Sacred Stones is
a pretty ordinary read. It has barely any beginning or
middle, and certainly no worthwhile end.

As in any of his books, Reilly's idiosyncratic use of
punctuation is noticeable after only a few pages, and
then becomes downright irritating.

Italics, when used appropriately, can apply emphasis
to certain words. Reilly employs italics so often that
they become glaringly obvious, and distract from the
actual prose. Italics may be integral to his style of
writing, but I do not think they can make mediocre
writing any better.

And exclamation marks! Oh, yes! They're everywhere!
You might expect to see fewer exclamation marks in
a Marvel comic!!!

Reilly has yet to learn that sometimes less really
is more.

It seems that Reilly loads up his word processor
like a scattergun, and peppers each page with as
many superlatives and as much hyperbole as possible.
And he's not shy from coining superlatives of his own,
when others just won't suffice. In just a few pages
the reader will encounter "superlong", "superhigh"
and "superthin", and many similar efforts repeated
throughout the whole book.

Reilly can write detailed descriptions of events
and places. He just doesn't know when to stop. Yes,
we can be impressed that he has done his homework,
until one meticulosly planned set piece blurs into
another, with stacks of needlessly-detailed exposition
bogging down the flow of the story.

The maps and diagrams are useful when following the
action, and yet they are usually quite badly drawn.
Does Reilly draw them himself? I don't know, but I
wonder why these sub-standard efforts would otherwise
find their way into print. Whoever the artist might be,
they're certainly no Alfred Wainwright.

Reilly does know how to write action scenes, I'll grant
him that. It's a shame that such scenes form part of
such lame stories. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief
to enjoy a book, but in the end, the effort had better
be worth it. Reilly sets up an intriguing premise, and
then the plot invariably veers from the Intriguing to
the Implausible to the Preposterous, and ends up in the
realm of the Ridiculous. Even well-written actions scenes
can become tedious if used to excess.
And Reilly loves excess.

For a successful author, he still has a lot to learn.
One thing he could learn right away, is to give up those
awful, self-indulgent "interviews" with himself at the
end of his books. If countless other authors don't feel
the need for such pretentious ego-stroking, you have to
wonder why Reilly thinks he is worthy of them. Although,
in his defence, I have to admit that these "interviews"
are not nearly as embarrassing as the self-pandering
you'll find on his website.

If you need to be reminded of a how a master can craft
an action story, read Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household.
It's a far, far more rewarding experience. And it has
a proper ending too.

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