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Summary: Hurry up already, Eric!
Review: Weekly, I check in to see when I can have some Casual Rex delivered to my doorstep. I'll gladly come cook dinner, wash dishes, walk the dog...what ever it takes to get Eric to write faster!Laughed out loud at the premise; loved the entire concept of the dinos in cheap human suits. If you devour detective/crime stories, yet still have a brain that appreciates the absurd, you'll chomp this book up. The end seemed to pop up a little fast; not uncommon in the genre. If you enjoy Christopher Moore or Bradley Denton, you might want to take a peek at this. Also, mystery fans that enjoy slightly twisted & humorous detectives, like those found in Janet Evanovich's fine series might try this dino sleuth on for size.
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Summary: Just The Facts, Please.
Review: A wonderfully oddball idea. But what's going on? Where's the origin chapter? Every comic book I ever read had an origin issue. Batman, Superman, The Flash, Hulk, Spiderman...all of them. And so I couldn't leave my disbelief at the door long enough to allow dinosaurs to don human costumes and speak language, etc., because I was never told how the whole dino thing came about. I couldn't even finish the book because I wasn't allowed access to the KEY. All I could do was riffle the pages looking for the origin chapter before giving up in disgust. Bah!
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Summary: Gotta Love Them Dinos
Review: So all my friends told me to read this book, but I had other things to do and I kept putting it off. Finally, my girlfriend read it and told me it was the best book she'd ever read, so I had to give it a whirl. Took me about thirty pages, but then I was hooked. Maybe not the best book I ever read, but probably in my top five. It was funny, sure, and I loved all the hardboiled satire, but the story was great, and the whole thing kept me rolling along. I did have a few questions about certain plot elements, and wrote an e-mail to the author but haven't heard back yet. Maybe he's slowing down now that the book is well known. But I can't rate the book on his e-mail response, just on the book alone, so I give it five stars!
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Summary: Entertaining enough
Review: I thought the idea of disguised dinosaurs still living amongst us was quite different. Part of the reason I started reading the book was to see if the author could successfully sell this premise to me as I am a tough customer. For the longest time whilst reading the book, I couldn't understand how dinosaurs as I know them, being creatures that are 10x the size of a human, could wear a human disguise and fit in society. It's not until you're practically halfway through does the author explain that dinos have shrunk to human size through millions of years of evolution. I know it's a small point but it plagued me the whole time until I read that part. I wish he had explained it a little earlier, then it wouldn't have been such a hard buy for me. Basic storytelling - nothing I haven't seen or read before (except for the dinosaur thing). The summation at the end came a little too fast and furious for me - everything being spelled out all at once - something like a Perry Mason or a Murder she Wrote epsiode. Not a very sophisticated storyline. For the most part it was an entertaining read, not hilariously funny as some describe it, though. It had a humourous, engaging tone that kept you reading until the end but it certainly did not make me laugh out loud. Cute idea, just not as enthralling or as funny as I think it could have been.
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Summary: Cliche with a twist.
Review: I found Anonymous Rex by Eric Garcia an amusing, but not terribly original book. Mind you it is different! The premise is that dinosaurs did not die off 65 million years ago but went underground. They now live among us disguised as humans.As would be expected with something like this the hero is a detective or more to the point a private eye. With all the attendant cliche of that genre. The idea is that all this is being played for laughs, the problem is I for did not really find it all that funny. There were a few moments that I chucked at but I did not find it any more amusing than a dozen forgettable paperback P.I. novels.The book is not even set up in an altered universe type setting. It's our world as it is, only one person out of every person you pass in the street is really a dinosaur in a rubber suit. Yep that big fellow over there is really a thirty foot long twenty ton brontosaurus, just pretending to be a big fellow.To say the least a lot could be done on the comedy front with a set up like that. But no, basically we are just lead to believe that they fit right in, and have from the start.In the end I found this a pedestrian P.I. story with an interesting, but poorly thought out & absurd overlay.A willing suspension of disbelief is one thing, but this abuses the privilege.
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Summary: A book you'll start proselytizing to your friends
Review: Good lord that was funny.
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Summary: Garcia gives great Rex
Review: This book is a delight from start to finish. Wonderfully written, clever, funny--he really pulled it off. You will believe dinosaurs walk amongst us, and you won't want to wait for the next installment.
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Summary: Excellent read
Review: I loved the concept of the story, uniquely different with likable characters. My only complaint is that I do not have alot of knowledge about the different spieces of dinosaur and wish there had been an index with pictures to refer back to when new charachters of different breeds were introduced. Other than that I loved the book and look forward to the sequel and movie!
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Summary: Good airplane reading.
Review: I loved this book! There is a new detective on the horizon, Vincent Rubio, a character with as many distinct habits as Phillip Marlowe and Chief Inspector Magret. They are all tough guys, they just didn't have to wear latex to work. Rubio smells like cuban cigars, has a serious habit of eating basil and always gets too close to the case. Great reading, looking forward to the next book. It was taken on a flight to Texas and in the round trip, I enjoyed the jokes and the dark side of the story. A great first work.
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Summary: The Not-So-Lost-World
Review: This book is stylish, unique, a monsterously entertaining. It's Men In Black meets Sam Spade meets 1,000,000 BC. Vincent Rubio is one of the most appealing characters I've ever encountered. He's like listening to Howard Stern, You want to hear what he'll say next. This book brilliantly mixes Comedy, Action, Drama, Mystery, with a dash of Science Fiction and Basil. I recommend this book to everyone. Especially if they're in the mood for a spot of interspecies mingling (Tee Hee)
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