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Summary: Raptor Red is an amazing book
Review: Raptor Red is a female <i>Utahraptor ostrommaysi</i>. She loses her mate after migrating from Asia to Utah. This novel is beautiful. You will be sad when Raptor Red faces hard, saddening challenges. I was so enthraled with this book, I read it again.
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Summary: a failed attempt
Review: i know bakker is an authority on dinosaurs, and i'm sure his nonfiction books are excellent to read, but he is not a fiction writer. and it shows in this book. i know what he wanted to do, but he should have left that job up to those who make a living writing. the text jumps between a narrative account and a documentary. the language falls flat, and without human characters, bakker is unable to make raptor red interesting. it's a nice try, but instead of this book, pick up one of bakker's nonfiction pieces and one of crichton's novels.
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Summary: I was assigned to read Raptor Red
Review: For geology class we were assigned to read this book and I thought that it would be boring and like a text book. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it wasnt this way. I am not a big dino lover but this book was fairly entertaining and very readable. it gives you a vivid glimpse of what life might have been like for these animals. It wasnt the worst book I have had to read for school!
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Summary: best book if you want to be in the eyes of a raptor
Review: back when i was in like 8th grade, which was quite a long time ago i read this book, i couldnt understand it well at first and read it again, i liked it so much after reading it the second time and getting the full idea, there are some times were it gets off the subject of raptor red. but it somehow relates it to the full story. i find this book a little challanging and suggest reading it more than once.i read it quite a few times, and to this day, it is my favorite book.
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Summary: What's up with this!?
Review: What was up with this book! He finds some new dinosaur bones and writes a cheesy melodrama about its life. Loses her mate then spends her time finding a new one! Moves in with the sister, her kids, and her mate! All the story was was the terrible life and constant fear. Blood and guts everywhere. Always scavenging and then the mooch pteradatcyl. It was all nonsense on how a guy thinks dinosaurs are. "Raptor Red woke this morning. The air was warm as she sniffed. Red found some fresh meat. Red left a dung pile, the standard communication in this jungle life, to tell her pack that food is here. The meat looks meaty and fresh." Dung piles to talk, aye? Sounds like a pretty messy place.
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Summary: A dinosaur story which isn't boring.
Review: I read this book and I loved it. Raptor Red's story, although fiction, feels like it's real. I recommend it to everyone.
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Summary: Amazing!!!
Review: I think this is the best dinosaur book I've ever read so far. It's better than any nonfiction books. It really feasts our eyes and I felt like I was with dinosaurs back in time then. Utahraptors are my favorite dinos and I think this book gives us all informations about Utahraptors. The story is about a female Utahraptor who faces all dangers around the nature as she searches for a mate. I hope Robert Bakker would write another dinosaur fiction book soon!
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Summary: ausome
Review: i loved this book it is the story of a ferocious predator a caring mother a loving sister and a lover. i like how berk shows that even though she is a predator she is constantly hunted by other carnovors please write another 1
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Summary: Paleontology into fantasy
Review: Using fiction to expand the audience for a scientific idea is a novel ploy. Robert Bakker has given us one of the best examples of this technique. In The Dinosaur Heresies, Bakker presented a beautifully written, but highly detailed, account of the likely scenarios of dinosaur existence. The full range of dinosaur life was described with elegant care, overlaid with Bakker's fine wit. But the wealth of information in that book may have deterred some readers from delving into what was basically a serious description. Here, Bakker's simply dumped much of the scientific annotation to provide a similar depiction of dinosaur life. Raptor Red incorporates a recent find of a large predatory dinosaur. Having positioned the find with its cognomen, Utahraptor, Bakker weaves a highly plausible tale of likely events in this creature's life. Cleverly portraying Raptor Red as female, he gives the "character" a wider range of experiences. Most of these are fully credible based on the increased knowledge gained by teams of paleontologists and volunteers. For example, recent finds indicate dinosaurs, unlike most of today's reptiles, probably stayed with nestlings after the hatch. Bakker has done a credible job in working in this concept and other revisionist thinking about probable dinosaur behaviour. We must be careful in assessing whether Bakker has taken liberties with levels of dinosaur intelligence. Science has revealed unexpected mental capacity in the minute fruit fly [see Jonathan Weiner's Time, Love, Memory for a fascinating account]. Dinosaurs reigned over the planet for over 150 million years. That's a fine testimonial to their adaptability and capacity for survival. Bakker acknowledges this aptitude at the story's opening by introducing the raptor as a migratory species entering a new territory. From this beginning he goes on to give the raptor emotional capacity, environmental awareness, and almost love. While flirting lightly with anthropomorphism, Bakker deftly maintains the creature's reptilian identity. It's a fine line, but he manages it without granting the animal more intellect than it deserves. He must find a way to impart motivation and without some means of doing so, we wouldn't have had the story. And it's a fine story.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: After reading so many good reviews on this book I must say I expected more. I thought I'd be reading and objective, docudrama from the dinosaur era but it definitely has a Disneyesque style. To many heroic acts and dinosaurs in love??? While I find it very feasible that dinosaurs were intelligent I find it hard to beleive they have emotional traits we cannot apply to even the most advanced animals of today.Although well written and do I appreciate the use of some dramatic licence and perhaps this book is aimed at a younger audience (I'm 25)but to me it was like any other romantic drama with dinosaurs as the main characters.........Mills and Boon with Teeth!
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