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Title: Entertaining, but Flimsy
Review: This book will make a fun read for Godzilla fans, but as a compendium for a monster who has appeared in over twenty films, a TV cartoon, novels, comics, and so forth, 145 pages is pretty darned flimsy. Adding to it is the fact that pages which could have been used to publish more information on the character are soaked up by silly chapters like "Godzilla as a Parenting Tool", and a chapter where paleontologist Kenneth Carpenter studies the beast as a dinosaur. Pretty pointless since the big G is a guy in a rubber suit that only vaguely resembles any creature that ever walked the planet. The synopsis of all of the films is good, but the behind the scenes sections are too short. Artwork by acclaimed artist Art Adams and others compliment the book, but there's too much visual in this and not enough factual information. In the end, this book comes off as more of a big fannish magazine than an exaustive source of information. And that's a shame.
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