Word: cussler
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...Raise the Titanic!, Cussler...
...Raise the Titanic! Cussler...
Except it isn't floundering. Week after week, the book is right up there at number two on the Times list, raking in boatloads of cash and sending eager film producers to Cussler's door clutching lucrative contracts for movie rights. Raise the Titanic! is the epitome of what publishers are feeding the American reading public, and that sorry fact says a great deal about the state of today's popular fiction...
...that the public does not want quality fiction. The familiar "Charlie's Angels" formula of writing--fast cars and faster women wrapped around a couple of gimmicks and out-dated cliches--now enjoys unprecedented popularity in most publishing houses, and so the public must regularly deal with works like Cussler's. Faced with no other choice, it buys them...
...iceberg was made of ("Ice," replied the ship's Fifth Officer) to the chances of salvage. Another crew member answered that question with the choking reply, "No, no, she went down like a rock and now she's gone--they'll never raise her." The advice is well taken. Cussler's book, like the famous event it recalls, is a singularly memorable disaster. And if the American reading public isn't content to let it sink slowly out of sight, it may be in store for even more unpleasant times in the future...