Raptor-Red

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Summary: raptor reds review
Review: I liked this book because it had lots of information of the utahraptor. it is a great book for all dinosaur lovers. i like to read it again and again because it was such a good book.

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Summary: Seeing through another's eyes.
Review: I first read this book right after I saw Jurrasic Park, and the raptors made me scream with delight and, I'll admit, a bit of fear. Raptor Red is the story of a young female Utahraptor, and it evolves the raptors from Jurassic Park into smart, intellegent creatures that care for their young and dream. An excellent book with very vivid prose, the author takes time to expand on little details, and thus this book is also educational, although you hardly notice. I hope we'll see another fiction book from Robert Bakker soon.

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Summary: An Exciting Read!
Review: This book is packed with action. Every couple of paragraphs there is more action. Anyone who is into dinosaurs should read this book. Robert Bakker portrays the dinosaurs as colorful, energetic animals. Not as the dull, monotone animals we think of now. Trust me you'll enjoy it!

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Summary: I LOVE This Book. It's my FAVORITE book!
Review: I Love This book. It was filled with action and it wasn't boring. It's the best. You should Totally read it. *Thais Teotonio

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Summary: Nice to read something from a dinosaur's point of view
Review: RAPTOR RED was very well portrayed, as not many novels are seen through a dinosaur's eyes. It was easy to feel her pain when she lost her mate, and then had to choose between her sister and her new 'boyfriend'. The ending was very triumphant :)

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Summary: Its good, but its description of some dinos lives is not
Review: Raptor Red has a lot of entertainment value. Each chapter had a new and interesting desciption of events that was all part of 1 big, interesting plot. However, there are a lot of things in this book which are questionable; too many to list here in fact. But I will list a few just for a general overview:

First off, Raptor Red and the raptors she lives with are all way too intelligent. I don't want to ruin the plot here; but there are 1 or 2 times in the book when a close member of Raptor Red's pack dies. Even an animal as intelligent as a mother bear will eat her cubs IF they die. Yet Raptor Red and her pack do not do this. Instead, they hang around for several hours feeling sad. Such strong emotion denotes great intelligence. But, while raptor red was the most intelligent predator of her time-and certainly more intelligent than any reptile living today-shestill only had the intelligence of an ostrich. The Raptors would have eaten their dead comrade, like most any animal does. The part where she spends so much time helping to look after her long lost sister's offspring is rather ridiculous. It is unlikely that any modern day mammilian predator would do this, so a Raptor doing so is certainly out of the question. Raptor Red figures out so many different ways to live at so many different places and sucessfully attack and kill so many different prey...its all very unlikely for a Raptor. Basically,she (and, to a lesser extent, her raptor pack ) is way to intelligent in this book.

Secondly, Bob Bakker (the author) makes a lot of highly questionable assumptions about the lifestyles of the dinosaurs in Raptor Red's ecosystem. He describes the Astrodons as being bigger than an elephant, when in reality,the only skelaton found was that of one that was about the size of a horse. He portrays the Utahraptors (the species that Raptor Red belongs to) as living in small packs, when in reality, they may just as likely have lived in large packs or were solitary. He makes one of the few primitive birds known from that era out to be a group living bird that specifically eats the parasites in other dinosaurs. He has segnosaurs living mainy just in caves. At one point, he even has Raptor Red walking around relatively comfortably in inch deep snow up in the mountains! Even if dinosaurs were warm blooded (which is a BIG if), it is very doubtful that they would have been comfortable in snowy climes, or even climes with a little frost.

I know a lot of dramatization is needed to make the book interesting, but in my opinion, there is a little TOO much in Raptor Red. This book can only be fully understood by those who know a lot about dinosaurs. Anyone who does not know a lot about dinosaurs will come away from reading this book with probably a very innacurate vision of what dinosaurs were like.

But still, its a pretty good book; certainly worth the price. But make sure you know a lot about the REAL scientific views on dinosaur lifestyles before you read it.

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Summary: A Great Book
Review: Wow! Life through the eyes of a dinosaur. Raptor Red was an wonderful book (I must have read it 6 times now), and it still amazes me more everytime I read it. Bakker is a very respected paleontologist, and his dino descriptions are top notch. This book comes highly recommended. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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Summary: Extremely exiting and interesting book!
Review: One of my friends let me borrow Raptor Red, saying it was her favorite book. Boy, when I read it, I could tell why she read it nine times over! I don't want to give it back now! This book is definitely one in a million. The whole book is seen through Rapror Red's opinion and veiws. I used to be totally into dinosaurs, and this book gave me a whole new outlook on how they think and act. The book lets you in on all of her thoughts and how her life is. I thoroughly enjoyed Raptor Red!

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Summary: Interesting...
Review: A maverick luminary in the paleontology field, Dr. Robert Bakker is probably best known to the layman as the uncredited dinosaur consultant on Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park." Among his peers, Bakker is considered somewhat of an erratic genius and, though his ideas concerning homeothermic biology for dinosaurs and the relationship of dinosaurs to present-day birds are largely accepted, he has hundreds of others that are still at the fringes of mainstream paleontological thought.

With RAPTOR RED, Bakker has tried his hand at dramatizing his theories, and as an exercise in speculative ecology, the book succeeds marvelously, creating the feel of a wildlife documentary snatched from the Cretaceous. When it fails, however, it fails because Bakker is not, primarily, a fiction writer, and his weaknesses concerning dynamic plot (not to mention his predilection for overly anthropomorphizing his animal characters) are sometimes all too obvious.

That said, RAPTOR RED is an engaging work that, despite a few potholes along the way, will keep the reader up late at least one night, flipping pages to find out what twist of ecological drama will crop up next.

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Summary: A Great Book For Anyone
Review: I love this book because Robert T. Bakker told the story from the dinosaurs POV. It tells about her life on the Utah Plains, her triles and tribulations, family, mates and its all in a story just like a person. (exept without alot of talking). I highly recomend this book to any reader board of the same writing pecies.