RE: The Dinosaur Feather

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>]

Have a copy of it on my pile at home, which I hope to get to in my elusive 
Copious Free Time.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Email: tholtz@umd.edu   Phone: 301-405-4084
Office: Centreville 1216                        
Senior Lecturer, Vertebrate Paleontology
Dept. of Geology, University of Maryland
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/
Fax: 301-314-9661               

Faculty Director, Science & Global Change Program, College Park Scholars
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Mailing Address:        Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] On Behalf Of 
> GSP1954@aol.com
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 10:01 AM
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: The Dinosaur Feather
> 
> According to a review of the English translation in today's Wash Post (I 
> actually get the print edition), it seems that a S J
Gazen murder
> mystery The Dinosaur Feather has been a big hit in Denmark for a few years. 
> The title is not merely allegorical, the book is about
the
> hellish murder of a Danish paleontologist who works on bird origins (the 
> reviewer correctly describes the current state of the
science).
> Most paleos being a weird and insular bunch (this writer obviously excepted) 
> we are of course prone to liquiditating one another
by
> ingenius means -- we lose one or two each SVP meeting. I admit I did not know 
> that Copenhagen is a hotbed of dinopaleo.
> 
> The review is very positive.
> 
> GSPaul</HTML>