Re: Dinosaur mystery novel

[frank bliss <frank@blissnet.com>]

Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston was pretty good as an audiobook from 
Apple.   Lots of twists and turns, almost believable and reasonably good 
paleontologic facts/interpretations.  Not new though, don't know if it's been 
reviewed on the list but I give it a 3 out of 4 stars.

Frank Bliss
Weston, Wyoming 
On Mar 19, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Lee Hall wrote:

> Spoiler alert, next time?
> 
> 
> Lee Hall
> Paleontology Undergraduate
> Museum of the Rockies
> Montana State University
> Bozeman, MT
> lhall@montana.edu
> http://sites.google.com/site/leehallpaleo/Home
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 3:43 PM,  <MKIRKALDY@aol.com> wrote:
>> 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
>> ----------------
>> 
>> 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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