The Grail (Area 51, Bk. 5)

I actually started reading the series with Area 51, and went right back for the remaining books that were available. Read all 5 in a two month period and now have to wait for the next episode. This book left us with a more open end than some of the others. The way he has pulled in all myths, legonds, actual earth sites, deadly diseases and the like is wonderful. Mr Doherty has drawn lines that would crumble most old beliefs. I also like the way enemies are working together as humans of Earth to hopefully save all of humanity. It's still difficult to know who is good and who is not. I believe you can read his books starting at any one of the series and want to know what came before and what comes after.

Another good book in the on-going series. Once again the story is clarified but still leaves many, many unanswered questions. The pace of this book is a little quicker than the others with a little less detail but overall provides a page-turning experience. Like many of you I'm almost ready for all the answers!

Just finished a three hour reading session to complete The Grail and this series is a non-stop ride. The incorporation of places, events, historical characters, legend, religious references, and even Sir Richard Francis Burton is truly making for an exceptional ride. I love the fast pace and non-stop cliffhangers and the constant forward movement of the entire series.

The Grail definitely changes your perspective on history. I really doubt that is the authors intent. The book is pure fiction, but it sure does make you think about life, god, satan, heaven, hell, life, death, .... the meaning of it all. A great read. I picked it up and could not put the book down until I finsished reading it.

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Great read. Interesting historical details.

Good Book.

This novel answered a lot of the questions of the previous installments and the concept of the Grail made it one of the easiest to follow because the story it explains itself as it advances. On the other hand, the poor characters that have prevailed since the first book seem somewhat childish in "Grail". The dialogues between characters, especially the ones where the villain "Al-Iblis" takes part of (Duncan & Al-Iblis about Duncan needing water), sound like 5 year olds talking. Al-Iblis sounded like the villain from an innocent cartoon like the Smurfs.

Again, the only thing that saved this novel was the history of the Grail and how it connects all the historic facts given in the previous novels.

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I have read all the books of area 51 except for the one that speaks about the humans on the other planet, (the one from where dunkan came).

An what I am going to write goes for all of them.

I would say that in this volume things started getting better, I mean Robert and in the previous ones shows his extrem love for the technical terms (turcote used the NSA linked to his GPS to get the ABC rader signal to talk to the FBIA using the KJH in the UYR after reciving a phone call via the HBS satalite from the MIDC team . . . . .) really it was too much in the books before this one. And also he is welling to spend two or three pages to explain how a techincal device work even if it was a night vision device, or explain all the parts of the special uranium gun used by the TASK force that was going to infiltrate the Peramid. While as a reader I do not care about these things. But it seems that robert could no get off his militray history and that he feels the urg to explain those technical stuff (the vibrating arm and the spring and the retraction) to every one so they can apprciate the technology although those details are not so important in such novels.

now althoug sometimes these things help to build a visual understanding of what is happening however in general it is a waste of pages.

Doherty also has this habbit of iterating and repeating the same stuff alot. For example in most of the time that he mentions the name of the chines professor he has to say that she was the one who opened Artad sleeping place (EVERY TIME), Think about it how many times did the writer say the Artad's people are called the ones who wait and aspsia's people are called the mission, I am sure at lest 1 thousand time. Another example is about turcote bombing the mother ship and killing aspasia (again hundereds of times repeated) It is as if the writer is assuming that with each new paragraph a new person will be reading and not the same person. I say this because I started reading the grail and then excalibur first (the first ones I got) so when I Was reading the mission and the reply and area 51 in general I had the feeling that I know most of what is going to be written because robert kept touching on the same events in all the books. Thus taking out the suspention and the fun out of it.

Another point I noticed is the contradictory of some facts.

For example when the mother ship was nuked, I was under the impression that Aspisa saw the bomb before it went on, However in another place it shows that Artad found Aspasia attached to the command seat of that mother ship, so how it happened.

however the idea is geniun and for that I give 3 starts