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Title: Amateur Writing (being charitable)
Review: MEG was a fast read, thankfully. The plotline has great potential that is never realized. The book is filled with characters that you never get to know, because the author never creates them in depth. It is filled with scientific and other errors of fact . . . errors not necessary to the story. The errors are very distracting and after awhile, you just read over them with an "oh well" attitude. It has been characterized by other reviewers as a good first book: I disagree. It is amateurish from page one, poorly researched, poorly peopled, --- well you get the idea. Compare this to Grisham's First Book and then say it is a good first effort. And it does not compare at all to Crichton (not even on the same scale with him) or Benchly. (If you really want to read a GOOD book about creatures from the past, read ESAU.) MEG is not worth your time unless there is nothing else. I have read worse, but I never finished them.
