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Re: Dinosaur mystery novel
It's hard to believe that Homer Hickam spent much time on a real dig, as
there is more fiction here than paleontology. If a guy who says he is a
paleontologist shows up on your land and wants to dig for fossils, do you say
okay, especially when his credentials don't check out and his crew consists
of two young women to do the work? You don't Google him? And you buy the
utensils and supplies for him. Do you let him cut the top off the
fossil-bearing hill on your land? Do you and your ranch hand and family do
the
excavating? And you don't call in a university paleontologist for a second
opinion?
Irritating name too: Norman "Pick" Pickford. What are the chances of
that? SVP is said to stand for Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists. Dr.
Pickford sells fossils but is a member thereof.
Odd characters, with the Russian mob, ex-porn producers, and a
heavy-drinking vegetarian ex-detective who is now a cowhand all converging on a
ranch
in Montana. Everything isn't as it seems, and there is the obligatory
nutso scene at the end.
Unless you could somehow generate 3000 lbs. of force, could you stab and
kill someone with a T. rex tooth?
Mary
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In a message dated 1/9/2011 12:19:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
danchure@easilink.com writes:
A review of the new novel "The Dinosaur Hunter", a story involving a
retired homicide detective, paleontologists, ranchers cattle slayings,
federal land managers, and a "mother load of rare dinosaur fossils" can
be read at
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/7/book-review-the-dinosaur-hunt
er/
Dan
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