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Yeah, I got clausty just reading some of the stuff in that book. Tiller reminds me of Dirk because of the way he gets shot, stabbed, bent, crushed through the run of the story but still manages to waste the bad guy. The difference is that at the end Dirk gets laid and Tiller gets pucking drunk... Jim On 11/8/98 3:16 PM Ken Sallot wrote: >Yeah, I read down to a sunless sea last year because a friend of mine >helped edit it (Jeff Carson). Most of the caves he talks about are >real (I especially liked the "fictional cave" which begins with a "W" >and has tunnel names like "A", "B", hmm, wonder what that's based >on). But the other stuff, "white room", "big room", "peacock", "black >abyss", all real (black abyss is in Leon Sinks however, and no 'tight >squeeze' restriction to get to it, and it is friggin' huge). > >I don't know if I'd caller "Tiller Galloway" a "Dirk Pitt" type >however, he's more of the "anti-hero"; bitch-slapping his girlfriend, >drinking like a fish, beating his son, etc.. A good novelization >of some of the more colorful mutants in the cave diving "community". >Hell, if he was a child molester or credit card thief I'd say >they really portrayed former cave-oriented dive shop owner well. >Good reading none-the-less.. > >Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix At http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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