Re: Cheap Dino Book(s)

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/21/00 1:36:28 AM EST, edels@email.msn.com writes:

<< About a week ago, someone was asking about inexpensive Dino books. I came
 across this bargain at Borders.  "The Handy Dinosaur Answer Book" by Thomas
 E. Svarney & Patricia Barnes-Swarney. [copyright 1999 - Visible Ink Press].
 List price: $19.99.  Borders price: $4.99, 50% off sale => $2.49.
 
    The book is a nice overview of dinosaurs, and some other prehistoric life
 as well.  It doesn't seem to talk-down to the reader, and covers most
 questions fairly well. >>

It's a gold mine of misinformation. For $2.49 it's good for a few laffs. For 
example, the first color plate in the special color section in the middle of 
the book informs us that the AMNH saurischian skeletons are located in the 
Museum of Modern Art. Scarcely a page goes by without a similar howler. And 
the sad fact is that this >could< have been a marvelous, useful little book.