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Product details File Size 206 KB Print Length 124 pages Page Numbers Source ISBN 1976197325 Simultaneous Device Usage Unlimited Publication Date May 16, 2012 Language English ASIN B008479TGC

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Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers or the Secret of Phantom Mountain edition by Victor Appleton Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

• In the previous book Tom Swift met a fellow named Jenks on Earthquake island who claimed to be have knowledge of a method for making Diamond. As is often the case a small plot thread from a previous book becomes the central plot point for the current one. Mr. Jenks has returned looking for Tom Swift's help in locating the mysterious Phantom Mountain where he invested in some men who demonstrated the ability to make diamonds. After they took his money they sent Jenks on his way. It looks like a total scam except they left Jenks with several diamonds that Tom Swift had appraised for more than the value of the money they stole.
  
  This is easily the weakest of the Tom Swift books I've read. Despite being targeted towards kids the previous books have generally been surprising intelligent in plot and details about science but no so this time. Why in the world would the diamond makers involve Jenks in their scheme when all they were trying to do was take some money from him. They literally were capable of creating diamonds. They didn't need his money and they sure didn't need to be bringing him right to their mine. It made no sense. Not only were the diamonds real but apparently of extreme quality and jewelers were willing to pay a high premium.
  
  The bigger problem with the plot is that it drags. The search for Phantom Mountain takes awhile and then once they get there the author doesn't seem to know what to have Swift and crew do. Creating diamonds isn't illegal and although technically the ripped off Jenks they gave him diamonds which more than made up for the money they took (which goes even further to show that the plot makes no sense). Having nowhere to take the story the author just offers up a Deus Ex Machina ending blasting the entire mountain to rubble with an unbelievably convenient act of nature. The reader is then supposed to accept that Phantom Mountain was the ONLY place where diamonds could be created.
  
  Unfortunately, the series seems to have moved in a new direction that I don't love. We've had Earthquake Island, Phantom Mountain and the Valley of Gold coming up in Tom Swift and the Caves of Ice. I don't mind that Swift is becoming more of an adventurer than inventor but if the plots are as weak as the one here the series may lose me.
• great book
• As a young boy, I read my fathers collection (4 books) of Tom Swift by Victor Appleton, which lured me to reading the entire series of Tom Swift by Victor Appleton Jr. Reading them again brings me back to happier times of childhood when everything was much simpler, less confusing and you had to use your imagination. I enjoyed the time travel back to my youth.
• Somewhat predictable.but it was still enjoyable. Bless my love for old tim serials with happy endings. Good old tom swift
• very satisfied
• Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers is definitely one of the most interesting volumes in this 30 plus book series. It was originally copyrighted in 1911, and is well prepared for via a sub-plot in Tom Swift and his Wireless Message, the preceding volume.
  
  Why is this book any different than others in the series? Well, for one thing, it does not center around some invention, such as Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone. Most of the books keying some invention in the title tend to be very episodic, recounting a series of adventures unified only by the involvement of that invention. The "Diamond Makers" just tells a single, unified story. To my knowledge, there really are no keynoted inventions in the book.
  
  The story is a good one. Mr Jenks, from "Wireless Message," is a wealthy man who was cheated by a gang of crooks who have developed a method of making synthetic diamonds of good size and quality. Jenks paid a small fortune for the secret to the diamond making process, but after he paid he was drugged and abandoned in a local hotel. He enlists Tom Swift to assist him in returning to the far American West to find the diamond makers and bring them to account.
  
  One unusual aspect of this novel, also, is that Ned Newton does not accompany Tom. Instead, Tom goes with Mr. Jenks,whom I've previously mentioned, a Mr. Parker who is a respected scientist, and Mr. Wakefield Damon, a longtime friend of Tom's. Damon is an odd character for an adventure novel, since he is an eccentric millionaire who is middle aged, and with some humorous eccentricities. Parker and Damon make for some high comedy, and I not seldom laugh aloud as I read of their "three stooge" type confusion and antics.
  
  In my opinion, the story is just plain good. I stayed up late at night reading of Tom's hunt for the diamond makers, his encounters with them, their attempts to sabotage his airship, and a final confrontation high in caverns in the Rocky Mountains.
  
  Some people who buy the Tom Swift books -- at least, in their original volumes -- do not read them. They are just collectors. However, I not only collect them but thoroughly enjoy them. How many books published in 1911 are still fun to read? Well, how about the "Oz" books? So there are a few. I think the original Tom Swift series -- sometimes called "Tom Swift Senior" -- is in that category.
  
  Hope you enjoy them half as much as I do. And I am nearly 70 years of age! "Diamond Makers" is one of the very best!
• The cream of the 'Tom Swift' crop, 'Diamond Makers' revolves around a concept fascinating even among today's technology. Many of the other books depend on then-jaw-dropping inventions to keep the interest going [such as TV cameras, zeppelin-like contraptions, and others]. But this one is a standout. It tells the story of a secret laboratory hidden in a mountain, and the criminals who attempt to harness the diamond-making apparatus for themselves. Quicker to culminate than most Tom Swifts, 'Diamond Makers' only picks up momentum until the final, shattering climax. Tom Swift is at his best in this one, and you won't want to miss out on the action!