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Review title: Promising story, but...
Product review: The Pleistocene Redemption is an interesting story, that would have been a good book in the hands of a better writer.The interesting, if unimaginative, premise is that, through genetic engineering, a theme park and preserve is created featuring an extinct Ice Age fauna (including Cro-Magnan and Neaderthals). As in Jurassic Park, things get out of control.Gallagher's writing is very poor, however. Cliches are everywhere. He has a very annoying habit of italicizing all the emphasized words in his dialouge. His characters are flat, and he never allows his characters actions to reveal anything about their feelings. Gallagher takes the lazy way out and just tells you how they feel.Not a very good book.
