--- product_id: 179909879 title: "Meg" price: "₱3233" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/179909879-meg store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # Meg **Price:** ₱3233 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Meg - **How much does it cost?** ₱3233 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/179909879-meg) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description If Michael Crichton and Clive Cussler were to combine their talents to create the ultimate summer read, MEG would be the result--a jaw-dropping and terrifying page-turner of the deep. On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal kingdom. The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor is haunted by what he's sure he saw but still can't prove exists-- Carcharodon megalodon , the massive mother of the great white shark. The average prehistoric Meg weighs in at twenty tons and could tear apart a Tyrannosaurus rex in seconds. Written off as a crackpot suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Taylor refuses to forget the depths that nearly cost him his life. With a Ph.D. in paleontology under his belt, Taylor spends years theorizing, lecturing, and writing about the possibility that Meg still feeds at the deepest levels of the sea. But it takes an old friend in need to get him to return to the water, and a hotshot female submarine pilot to dare him back into a high-tech miniature sub. Diving deeper than he ever has before, Taylor will face terror like he's never imagined, and what he finds could turn the tides bloody red until the end of time. Steve Alten holds a master's degree in sports medicine and has a Ph.D. from Temple University. An avid amateur oceanographer, Alten has been studying Megalodons for over ten years. He lives with his wife and three children in South Florida. MEG is his first novel. Review: HE SAW HOW AWFUL BEAUTY WAS - The Mariana Trench, located in the Pacific, is the deepest part of the ocean and is seven miles deep and 1,550 miles long. You hear the quote that we know more about deep space than we do about our own oceans and it's true. You wouldn't think anything big would be alive down there in the cold dark...but underwater volcanoes have created somewhat of a greenhouse effect on the ocean's bottom. A layer of heated ash has formed a canopy deep below that allows a strata of undersea life, including giant cuttlefish, dinosaurs...and megalodons, huge sharks that grow up to 80 feet long! Two groups of people have converged on the Mariana Trench for different reasons. The Defense Department has sent a Navy ship along with scientists to retrieve mysterious manganese nodules. The pilot of the sub sent down to get the nodules is Jonas Taylor, a naval commander. There is also a research ship studying underwater volcanoes in the area. During the naval dive, Jonas has a run-in with a megalodon and lives are lost. Since Jonas is the only survivor of the dive, the Navy thinks he's crazy when he tells them his sub was attacked by a giant shark. They believe he is delusional and he is dishonorably discharged from the service. Jonas spends the next seven years going back to college to get his doctorate in marine paleontology, with a specialization in megalodons. When an old friend asks for his help in figuring out what is going wrong with an earthquake early detection system set up in the Trench, Jonas begins to find himself drawn back toward making another dive, and facing an old terror. This revised and expanded edition of Meg also includes the prequel ebook Meg: Origins so if you buy this edition, don't make the mistake of also buying that. I'll start this review by saying this is one of the most awful books I've ever read. But saying that, I couldn't help but also enjoy it. It was the horrible fascination of looking at a train wreck, a car wreck, and a plane crash all at the same time. What was my first inkling that it was going to be bad? When one of the characters studying the underwater volcanoes sees a blip on the boat's radar and his first statement is to say its a megaladon! Bear in mind, this is before ANYONE has seen a meg in the book or is even LOOKING for one, or even comprehending there are megs still alive in the trench. But for some reason, this character is just AUTOMATIC....ITS A MEGALADON!! It was so comical. At the beginning of the book, the author Steve Alten argues, and I would say a bit tongue in cheek, that megs could really be alive swimming somewhere down in the depths and offers flimsy scientific evidence for this....but then includes a scene where a T-Rex takes on a meg even though megs didn't exist in the same time period as the dinosaurs. It is fascinating to think that early humans might have actually glimpsed one of these behemoths though, or might even have had to fight against them. There are some other far-fetched components of the book, like dinosaurs evolving gills, but once you realize this is a pulp novel, reminiscent of the early 1930s with modern trappings, you start to relax and let the fact that Meg is the anti-Moby Dick wash over you and you begin to enjoy its horror much as you would an Ed Wood film. All the main male characters are good looking and physically fit and all the women are beautiful and have big boobs. They engage in infantile Me Tarzan You Jane relationships right out of early Clive Cussler or bad 1970s paperback adventure series. Ok, it's not quite THAT bad, but it's on the level of high school boyfriend/girlfriend. There was also rampant drug abuse of prescription medications all through the book. I was kind of amazed how many tranquilizers the pilots and crew of the deep sea subs took when they were operating equipment worth millions and millions of dollars. And the fact that the main character who was supposed to be the best sub pilot had problems with claustrophobia! Doesn't seem like that would be your best line of work! Something else that created a lot of drag on the narrative, at least at the beginning of the book, were these abrupt info dumps of "non-fiction" material that just suddenly appear right out of Wikipedia. You'll be following the plot with the main character Jonas going down into the trench and then out of the blue, you'll have an encyclopedia entry about the trench or megs etc. It was quite jarring and thankfully they ended after the first 20-30% of the book. This book was so bad that it actually opened up its own space time continuum where it is the pinnacle of literature. Once I understood this, I realized that for what it was, Meg is a masterpiece, the Spinal Tap of monster novels. It's all tongue in cheek and is quite fun once you get into the spirit of it. One scene in the novel pretty much sums up the whole volume and it's the subject of the cover art of the edition I read. A surfing contest is going on (have no idea WHY it wouldn't be cancelled with a megalodon on the loose). The meg appears to chomp on the contestants but one surfer is able to juke and jive around the attacking shark, makes it to the beach on his board, WINS the contest, AND asks a pretty girl spectator to go out with him! If you can read the preceding paragraph and laugh, then you'll get some enjoyment out of this book. If you roll your eyes in disgust, then skip it. Review: Awesome Action & One Huge Shark - I devoured this book as quick as a megalodon snacking on a surfer because it's just plain good. It's also a pretty quick read, a fast adrenaline ride across the Pacific in under 300 pages. Though it lacks the intricacies and depth of a Crichton novel, I think the LA Times summed it up nicely with "Jurassic Shark." Jonas Taylor's career as a submersible pilot ended abruptly one day in the Mariana Trench when he panicked and shot his sub to the surface, killing two crewmen. Nobody believed Jonas saw a prehistoric carcharadon megalodon coming at the sub because megalodons have been extinct for over 100,000 years. Or have they? In the intervening years, Jonas obsessively researched the ancestor to the great white shark, still privately believing he saw an attacking megalodon in the warm waters on the bottom of the ocean. Meanwhile, his ambitious reporter wife Maggie has drifted from him, now having an affair with his "friend" Bud. Jonas sets aside his fears when entrepreneur Masao Tanaka approaches him about descending to the depths of the Challenger Deep one more time in order to find out what's been causing high-tech earthquake detecting equipment to malfunction. Jonas and Tanaka's son DJ descend to the deepest part of the ocean when all of Jonas's worst fears materialize in the form of a hungry megalodon. Jonas barely makes it back to the surface, but he soon learns a pregnant female meg came out of the depths as well. Whales are beaching themselves all over the South Pacific, and when the shark turns to human prey, the US Navy decides to send a submarine after her. Masao Tanaka and Jonas Taylor have a better idea: capture the shark and keep her in captivity at Tanaka's lagoon near Monterey. Between the navy, Greenpeace, gawkers, the media, and Jonas Taylor's gang, just about everybody is following the meg as she eats her way across the Pacific. Naturally, capturing a 60-foot predator with 7-inch serrated teeth is no easy task, and lots of people get eaten up until the final showdown between Jonas and the shark. Alten's characters are pretty one-dimensional, and I wouldn't exactly call Jonas an alpha male, but this book isn't about characters. It's about a 60-foot, pure white prehistoric eating machine that raises havoc and devours lots of people. If there's a character you don't like, don't worry, they'll likely wind up as fish food. Some adventure writers today are trying this format of lots of action and sparse character development, but nobody pulls it off with Alten's finesse. He's written one heck of a lean monster book that kept me turning the pages and wouldn't let me put it down. The best thing of all is that this is just the first book in a trilogy, and the other two are just as good. Steve Alten knows how to write a darned good monster book. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #875,444 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4,282 in Suspense Thrillers #5,293 in Action & Adventure Fiction (Books) #39,410 in American Literature (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 4,343 Reviews | ## Images ![Meg - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81L6KI2Ux9L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HE SAW HOW AWFUL BEAUTY WAS *by S***O on July 18, 2018* The Mariana Trench, located in the Pacific, is the deepest part of the ocean and is seven miles deep and 1,550 miles long. You hear the quote that we know more about deep space than we do about our own oceans and it's true. You wouldn't think anything big would be alive down there in the cold dark...but underwater volcanoes have created somewhat of a greenhouse effect on the ocean's bottom. A layer of heated ash has formed a canopy deep below that allows a strata of undersea life, including giant cuttlefish, dinosaurs...and megalodons, huge sharks that grow up to 80 feet long! Two groups of people have converged on the Mariana Trench for different reasons. The Defense Department has sent a Navy ship along with scientists to retrieve mysterious manganese nodules. The pilot of the sub sent down to get the nodules is Jonas Taylor, a naval commander. There is also a research ship studying underwater volcanoes in the area. During the naval dive, Jonas has a run-in with a megalodon and lives are lost. Since Jonas is the only survivor of the dive, the Navy thinks he's crazy when he tells them his sub was attacked by a giant shark. They believe he is delusional and he is dishonorably discharged from the service. Jonas spends the next seven years going back to college to get his doctorate in marine paleontology, with a specialization in megalodons. When an old friend asks for his help in figuring out what is going wrong with an earthquake early detection system set up in the Trench, Jonas begins to find himself drawn back toward making another dive, and facing an old terror. This revised and expanded edition of Meg also includes the prequel ebook Meg: Origins so if you buy this edition, don't make the mistake of also buying that. I'll start this review by saying this is one of the most awful books I've ever read. But saying that, I couldn't help but also enjoy it. It was the horrible fascination of looking at a train wreck, a car wreck, and a plane crash all at the same time. What was my first inkling that it was going to be bad? When one of the characters studying the underwater volcanoes sees a blip on the boat's radar and his first statement is to say its a megaladon! Bear in mind, this is before ANYONE has seen a meg in the book or is even LOOKING for one, or even comprehending there are megs still alive in the trench. But for some reason, this character is just AUTOMATIC....ITS A MEGALADON!! It was so comical. At the beginning of the book, the author Steve Alten argues, and I would say a bit tongue in cheek, that megs could really be alive swimming somewhere down in the depths and offers flimsy scientific evidence for this....but then includes a scene where a T-Rex takes on a meg even though megs didn't exist in the same time period as the dinosaurs. It is fascinating to think that early humans might have actually glimpsed one of these behemoths though, or might even have had to fight against them. There are some other far-fetched components of the book, like dinosaurs evolving gills, but once you realize this is a pulp novel, reminiscent of the early 1930s with modern trappings, you start to relax and let the fact that Meg is the anti-Moby Dick wash over you and you begin to enjoy its horror much as you would an Ed Wood film. All the main male characters are good looking and physically fit and all the women are beautiful and have big boobs. They engage in infantile Me Tarzan You Jane relationships right out of early Clive Cussler or bad 1970s paperback adventure series. Ok, it's not quite THAT bad, but it's on the level of high school boyfriend/girlfriend. There was also rampant drug abuse of prescription medications all through the book. I was kind of amazed how many tranquilizers the pilots and crew of the deep sea subs took when they were operating equipment worth millions and millions of dollars. And the fact that the main character who was supposed to be the best sub pilot had problems with claustrophobia! Doesn't seem like that would be your best line of work! Something else that created a lot of drag on the narrative, at least at the beginning of the book, were these abrupt info dumps of "non-fiction" material that just suddenly appear right out of Wikipedia. You'll be following the plot with the main character Jonas going down into the trench and then out of the blue, you'll have an encyclopedia entry about the trench or megs etc. It was quite jarring and thankfully they ended after the first 20-30% of the book. This book was so bad that it actually opened up its own space time continuum where it is the pinnacle of literature. Once I understood this, I realized that for what it was, Meg is a masterpiece, the Spinal Tap of monster novels. It's all tongue in cheek and is quite fun once you get into the spirit of it. One scene in the novel pretty much sums up the whole volume and it's the subject of the cover art of the edition I read. A surfing contest is going on (have no idea WHY it wouldn't be cancelled with a megalodon on the loose). The meg appears to chomp on the contestants but one surfer is able to juke and jive around the attacking shark, makes it to the beach on his board, WINS the contest, AND asks a pretty girl spectator to go out with him! If you can read the preceding paragraph and laugh, then you'll get some enjoyment out of this book. If you roll your eyes in disgust, then skip it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Awesome Action & One Huge Shark *by K***S on October 26, 2006* I devoured this book as quick as a megalodon snacking on a surfer because it's just plain good. It's also a pretty quick read, a fast adrenaline ride across the Pacific in under 300 pages. Though it lacks the intricacies and depth of a Crichton novel, I think the LA Times summed it up nicely with "Jurassic Shark." Jonas Taylor's career as a submersible pilot ended abruptly one day in the Mariana Trench when he panicked and shot his sub to the surface, killing two crewmen. Nobody believed Jonas saw a prehistoric carcharadon megalodon coming at the sub because megalodons have been extinct for over 100,000 years. Or have they? In the intervening years, Jonas obsessively researched the ancestor to the great white shark, still privately believing he saw an attacking megalodon in the warm waters on the bottom of the ocean. Meanwhile, his ambitious reporter wife Maggie has drifted from him, now having an affair with his "friend" Bud. Jonas sets aside his fears when entrepreneur Masao Tanaka approaches him about descending to the depths of the Challenger Deep one more time in order to find out what's been causing high-tech earthquake detecting equipment to malfunction. Jonas and Tanaka's son DJ descend to the deepest part of the ocean when all of Jonas's worst fears materialize in the form of a hungry megalodon. Jonas barely makes it back to the surface, but he soon learns a pregnant female meg came out of the depths as well. Whales are beaching themselves all over the South Pacific, and when the shark turns to human prey, the US Navy decides to send a submarine after her. Masao Tanaka and Jonas Taylor have a better idea: capture the shark and keep her in captivity at Tanaka's lagoon near Monterey. Between the navy, Greenpeace, gawkers, the media, and Jonas Taylor's gang, just about everybody is following the meg as she eats her way across the Pacific. Naturally, capturing a 60-foot predator with 7-inch serrated teeth is no easy task, and lots of people get eaten up until the final showdown between Jonas and the shark. Alten's characters are pretty one-dimensional, and I wouldn't exactly call Jonas an alpha male, but this book isn't about characters. It's about a 60-foot, pure white prehistoric eating machine that raises havoc and devours lots of people. If there's a character you don't like, don't worry, they'll likely wind up as fish food. Some adventure writers today are trying this format of lots of action and sparse character development, but nobody pulls it off with Alten's finesse. He's written one heck of a lean monster book that kept me turning the pages and wouldn't let me put it down. The best thing of all is that this is just the first book in a trilogy, and the other two are just as good. Steve Alten knows how to write a darned good monster book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Perfect Fix for Shark Lovers! *by S***R on August 7, 2017* (as posted on my Goodreads account) Far-fetched....AND GLORIOUS! From the very first page, this book captures and drags its reader down into the dark depths of terror and intrigue that Alten has successfully managed to create in this amazing world of science and fiction. "JURASSIC SHARK" is the most perfect description of this novel - melding together a perfect combination of Jaws and Jurassic Park in a way that makes the reader question just how probable the chances are of the Earth's watery depths actually concealing a prehistoric, aquatic horror. If you have a love for all things shark, then "MEG" is the read for you. Alten definitely did some research for this masterpiece; it shows throughout the book and literally had me questioning the next time I dare venture into the ocean. "MEG" is a brilliant correlation of action, drama, and suspense. You won't want to put it down - in fact, there is so much action taking place throughout the course of the pages, that it's almost as if you CAN'T! Steve Alten really knows how to lay out science, intrigue, and terror in a single novel; each of these feeding into one another to birth a read greater than you could have originally imagined. I can say for a fact that I am beyond ready to begin the sequel in this series, "THE TRENCH". While I have read mixed reviews on the sequel, "MEG" has done such a good job luring me in with the first book, that I am positive I will HAVE to purchase every continuation novel from this point on. The world of Meg is much bigger than any of its characters could have imagined, and somehow MEG leaves the reader feeling the same way: You have to learn more. While it does seem that the romantic shift in the story kind of bolted out of nowhere, it really didn't bother me too much. I was too busy hoping no one else died (and by that I mean, "Wondering who was going to die NEXT?") 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