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Title: Enjoyable, Light Reading
Review: This is my first Douglas Preston book, and I certainly wasn't expecting fine literature. I saw it on sale at half-price at the supermarket, and thought it might be a good adventure story in the Jurassic Park mold. Well, this story completely delivered in its ability to keep me reading it - it had a lot of adventure, some interesting dinosaur theories, and was kind of fun in that implausible, unrealistic way that adventure stories often have. I loved the book, maybe I loved it precisely because it was not very believable - I mean seriously, who keeps his word to a dying man (and a stranger, no less) when it could mean going to jail for the rest of your life or getting killed?The book was fast-paced, the characters wonderfully one-dimensional, in all, maybe it was a little hard to take seriously at times, but if I wanted to read literature, I'd stick to Dostoevsky. Tyrannosaur Canyon is a good, light, summer book.
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