The Deep

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Lean and crisp and delightfully over-the-top. Think Tales From the Crypt, think early Crichton, think King on coke....Disquieting, disturbing, and it’s also great fun to read.” Luke brings his own burdens with him: His little boy disappeared one day when they were playing hide and seek in the woods. He has yet to be found. Not to mention his own childhood trauma that stems from a mother straight from hell and a brilliant yet troubled brother who conducts unsettling experiments in the basement.

As can be expected about the science station’s hood, it’s not much like the world as we know it. Light doesn’t exist. Nor do any of the marine world personalities we know and love. It’s also intent on killing stuff. Especially humans. The station’s makeup turns out to be a modest quandary as well. It seems to have a bit of a temper. Especially in the parts of it where the element at hand –that which is alleged to save mankind- seems to have acquired control beyond the physical laws of nature that we Earthlings take for granted. If you have any questions or want to know more, please shoot me a question. I'm pretty good about responding.

They are called "Fig Men" and are very old and ancient and have been trapped at the bottom of the ocean for a very long time. How long? Don't ask. Where did they come from? Don't ask. Why are they trapped? Just cuz. Are they extraterrestrial, gods, girl scouts? Don't ask because you won't find out. I loved how Cutter made the Trieste feel like a character in and of itself, which reminded me of how The Overlook Hotel feels in The Shining.

I almost couldn’t handle the body horror of THE TROOP but the stuff that really got to me was the deliberate cruelty toward some of the animals/insects (the lovingly depicted sensation of popping the eyeball, for example.) But mutations and decompression jelly, I can probably do. urn:lcp:deep0000cutt_j3i9:epub:1da290ea-4a8a-43ec-b7c3-6327f98130b8 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier deep0000cutt_j3i9 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t19m2h98x Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781476717739 Scientists are at the bottom of the ocean looking for a cure to a disease called the 'Gets (short for Forgets). Don't worry about knowing anymore since the Gets since it doesn't really matter and is never explained. The scientists are looking for a miracle substance called Ambrosia that can cure pretty much anything except boredom for the reader. What is Ambrosia exactly? Where does it come from? Don't ask because you won't find out except some vague allusions toward the end. and i would be perfectly willing to read a companion-book to this one that focused on what was happening on the surface either before or during this book, so if that was ever up for debate, know that i would heartily approve.Luke gets the message that his weirdo genius brother Clayton needs him. Clayton is 8 flipping miles under the sea at a lab called the Trieste. While a disease called The 'Gets ravages the surface world, a substance that may be the cure is being researched at an installation on the floor of the Marianas Trench. When one of the scientists requests his brother's help just before the communication system dies, Luke has no choice but to descend to the unknown depths and confront horrors he cannot imagine... Luke mostly just yammers on about how awful it is being eight miles under the surface of the ocean, how much pressure he feels, how he feels like he's losing his mind. Oh, and he dreams about this fat, evil mother. She's really, really fat by the way. This fact is pounded into the reader's brain. (He also hears his fat, evil mother in his mind, sort of a fat, evil Greek Chorus. It gets old. Fast.) Luke's defining characteristic is that his five year old son disappeared in a park years ago and Luke has never recovered from that. Davidson isn't done borrowing from other material, some of it beneath a writer of his talent. The setting has what could be called "Camp Crystal Lake Echo", where a character finds themselves alone in a remote setting and feels the urge to call out to a friend, thereby alerting the killer exactly where they are. I lost count how many times Luke called out, and this is a character who's seen horror movies like Alien. That annoyed me.

That is, there’s no cure in sight until one of the world’s most brilliant scientists, Clayton Nelson, makes an impossible discovery from the ocean’s depths. A mysterious substance called Ambrosia is found – a miracle substance of unknown origin that protects its host from death itself. In a multimillion dollar Hail Mary play for the future of the species, the US government builds an underwater habitat, the Trieste, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench’s deepest rift (8 miles underwater) and send three different scientists to find, harvest, and experiment on this Ambrosia. The second one is the prize-nominated book titled Cataract City. The story features two childhood friends turned foes, whose quest for survival amid social problems drives a wedge between their long-lasting close friendship. I hate the frigging ocean and deep water!! It's one of my biggest fears. My dumb ass just needs that scare factor so I read this book. Just a note: the Trieste in this novel is probably a reference to the Trieste bathyscaphe, which in 1960 reached the deepest part of the ocean (the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench). The bathyscaphe was largely contructed in the Italian city of Trieste, which is where it got its name. So, while it’s possible that the author was refering to the Spanish word for “sorrow”, it’s more likely that he was refering to the previous deep sea exploratory vehicle. This is fairly realistic – those who commission and build exploratory vessels have a tendency to name them after other exploratory vessels (all the things named after the original HMS Challenger, such as the Glomar Challenger scientific ship and the Challenger space shuttle, attest to this).During the story, each chapter is intercut with various reports and interviews surrounding the events that transpired on the island. Over the course of the book, it is revealed that a scientist of incredible skill but little restraint (Dr. Edgerton) was working on a modified tapeworm that could rapidly but safely cause weight loss. He was also secretly accepting grants from military weaponry agencies to modify it for use in warfare. Dr. Edgerton convinced a man to be part of a study, becoming injected with this worm. Through careful manipulation and planning, the patient was released into Falstaff Island, to allegedly test the virulence and military capabilities of the worm. Finally, certain aspects of the ending don’t really add up if you really stop and think about it. No spoilers here, but suffice it to say there were a couple things that didn’t fully work for me. Cutter throws all kinds of horror tropes at the reader - a pandemic, body horror, extradimensional gates, ancient evil/Lovecraftian creatures, The Thing-like creatures that pull themselves together after having limbs or heads cut off, self-mutilation, insane ramblings in diary entries, Stephen King-like horrible parents, scary boxes and crawling body parts, eeeeendless hallucinations that might not be hallucinations, an abducted child, wanting sex while terrified (that said, it's never actually done, which makes a change). With the plugs and fuel in the boat, the boys escape the island. Shortly after, they are halted by several military ships. In a state of infected delirium, Newt stands up, saying "I'm so very, very..." before being shot and killed by military personnel. Max, the only survivor of the Falstaff incident, finds he is unable to live life normally, with everyone, even his parents, treating him differently. The ending is somewhat up to interpretation, with the final passage remarking that Max is returning to the island on a stolen boat, with a deep "hunger" inside of him. There's no denying that Cutter has the ability to write some creepy-ass stuff. There were multiple times in this where 'monster' type entities gave me the complete heebie-jeebies.