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Summary: The Absolute BEST!!!
Review: This book is better than Jurrasic Park, The Lost World, it's better than every other book in the world. It is ingenuisly imaginative, and every time I read it, I can actually imagine myself as Raptor Red. Robert T. Bakker describes the dinos very well considering the amount of info we have on their behavior. After I read this book, I had a new respect for dinosaurs. I highly suggest Raptor Red to everyone from Sci-Fi readers to Romance readers.
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Summary: EVEN BETTER THAN JURASSIC PARK!
Review: Raptor Red was an outstanding novel! It had a great amount of suspense, action, adventure, and dramatics. This is a must read, especially if you like dinosaurs! If you thought Jurassic Park blew you out of your seat, Raptor Red will blow you out of town! -Derrick Davis age,12
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Summary: I just read it for the fifth time...and it's still great!
Review: Yes, even at the fifth read, it still had all the magic of the first read. I still dream about being a Utahraptor. The best vision of a dinousaur's life I've ever read. (Or seen)
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Summary: Raptor Red takes you inside the 'brain' of a Dinosaur!
Review: As a first cousin of Dr. Bob Bakker, I bought his best-selling book, Raptor Red with happiness. I was excited to read it after reading and seeing Jurassic Park (and knowing that he had imput into the movie). I thought the book was good, with a good plot. I am NOT a Dinosaur maniac, but it really helped me to understand certain things about them. I have students at school (Jr. Hi.) who are 'into' Dinosaurs, and they are enthusiastically reading this book! I hope that Dr. Bob will write another one soon!
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Summary: An insight of Utahraptor's life
Review: Raptor Red is an emotional book. Even though it took place 120 million years ago, it is told as though it was happening right now. Robert Bakker really gets into the personal lifestyle of a dinosaurian predator, and other prehistoric animals as well. Raptor Red (the main character) lives a wonderfully colorful life, filled with emotion and real-life cicumstances. Each raptor has its own personality, creating different moods at different points in the story. The story even teaches morals, if you look for them. I'm only 13, and I first read this book at 12. Although it is an adult book, Robert Bakker wrote this book in a way I could easily understand. I highly recommend this story to anyone who loves dinosaurs, and to anyone who is weighed down by life.
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Summary: A book you can really sink your teeth into!
Review: Robert Bakker (a.k.a. Jurassic Bob) is one of the world's formost paliontoligists, and in this book he's used that considerable talent to make a story that is both humorous and exciting. I won't bore you with the details, but the various species interact in situation that are both original and belevable. All though some species are featured in areas that they've never been found in (such as the Astrodon) it is entirely possible that they may have lived there, and we just never found any fossils. After all, fossils only form under very specific situations. Aside from a little bit of anthropromorphising, this is an extremely well written book. Personally, I'd like to see a Bakker/Crichton teamup. Now that should be interesting.
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Summary: This is an authoritive look into a the past,good to.
Review: The book is exciting with great illustrations. Even though it's realistic-fiction, I'd except it as a source of true information any time. It has great discriptive qualities and really thrilling.
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Summary: A very entertaining, innovative and realistic book!
Review: Simply outstanding. I buy only a few books in hardcover for my library, and Raptor Red is a prized possession. I rarely re-read a book, but every 6-18 months or so I read it again! it's that captivating. Please, Mr. Bakker, do it again!
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Summary: A great action packed book.
Review: Rater Red was a great book about a pack of raptors in the pre-historic era. Robert Bakker, the author, wrote many other books, like the "Dinosaur Heresies". Robert Bakker is also the author of a famous theory that dinosaurs were not evil creatures who left their young for dead, but were in fact social beings. In the preface, paleontologist Robert Bakker was talking to a friend who had just discovered a new type of raptor in Utah. This new raptor was almost triple the size of theraptor we were used to knowing. They decided to name this breed of raptor the Utahrapter. Then Robert wrote about a phone call he got earlier that day. It was Steven Spielberg's special effects crew asking about a giant raptor. They asked what would it look like, and other questions about its appearance. They wanted to make a better version of the raptor for the movie Jurassic Park. This was before the big discovery. Then Robert described the standard life of a Utahrapter. Raptor Red is a great book which follows the life of a young female Utahrapter. It is about the animals' primary functions as well as about Charles Darwin who discovered evolution. I think Raptor Red was a really good book. Anyone who likes science fiction books or action ones should love this book. This book was action packed. Its amazing how hard it must have been to stay alive in that time.
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Summary: A gripping and suspensful novel.
Review: This has been the first book I have read that uses the dinosaur's view instead of the human being's view. This book was a heart pounding adventure that was gripping and suspenseful. I would recommend this book for serious readers or if you only read one book. This is well written and very well thought up. It is something you will not want to put down once you start. This is a "must read" if you liked Jurasic Park one or two or even if you just like dinosuars. To captor the suspense and drama the writter uses a Utah Raptor to tell the book like it was a life story. One of the best aspects of the book was how it was written. It is very original and captivating novel. It also does a great job at telling a lot of information and it is put in so that it goes along with the plot and it is hard to pick out the facts because of how they are blended in. I think that the best aspect of the story is that you never know what will happen next and that there are hundreds of characters all with different personalities. There are 5 to 7 different main characters through out the story. There were a few spots in it that didn't fit in. He didn't do the best job of changing over where these dinosuars were. Because the main plot of the book is these dinosuars trying to migrate without getting killed. He would just change the setting of where they were insted of tell what they went through to get there or the journey to that spot. The story starts out with a Utah Raptor family that end up splitting and going different ways. Raptor Red goes one way and the other sister and brother go another, but they latter find each other because they leave sents on trees to find mates and they track eachother down by these. After they all meet up the start to migrate to the California coast from northeast Russia (remember that the world was much different 150 million years ago and they didn't have to cross water during the whole trip), but there is a lot of work required to get there. This story is written by a Paleontologist and so some is fact and some is fiction. I hope you like this book because I sure did.
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