Carnosaur

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Summary: carnosaur = carnage!
Review: .... I just finished reading it and if your looking for decent story that has plenty of dinosaur chomping humans in a graphic manner then you've come to the right place. Its pretty straight forward read , interesting story line , decent characters , lotsa violence (beware kiddies!), and some sex (beware american kiddies!). The dinosaurs are depicted fairly well , Infact I was expecting them to be slighly more reptilian but the book describes them pretty well even thought the book was based on dino info from the 80's. Funnily enough this version seems like a slightly watered down version of micheal crichtons 'jurassic park' novel , except this book came first. it almost seems like mr crichton read this book and decided to elaborate some more on , borrowing the themes and *gasp* the dinosaurs species themselves from this book. Crichton made dinosaurs in his book sound better when it came to movements and he basically rewrote this book times 10 (instead on estate , he wrote about a park. He describes the method of cloning in more detail in his book , but its uncannily similar to whats in carnosaur). harry adam knight (not his real name!) treats the humans in his novel with contempt and a lot of monster cliches are used and but then again alot of them are broken. basically if life was fair it would be mr. knight rolling around in hollywood dino bucks not mr. crichton, because after reading carnosaur it becomes pretty obivious where crichton ripped his ideas from. once again if you wanna read where the original 'dinosaurs escaping and running amok story' this is the one to start with , pretenders beware (even if their really good pretenders!).

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Summary: Don't Be Fooled...
Review: ...by the adaptation to film, the book is nothing like the film. This is a book much like Jurassic Park (the Novel) - The dinosaurs *do* eat people, and in the most realistic way possible, lets be honest, there has to be blood, and from the first chapter to the last the blood flows. I first read this when I was 15, and keep coming back to it year after year, as the story never fails to keep the tension up. If you like Jurassic Park, give it a go, if you hate it - at least you'll know, if you like it, well, you will have expanded your author list!

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Summary: the original Jurassic Park
Review: Shame on Mr. Crichton for ripping off this much better novel (He seems to have done a similar job by adapting Burroughs's TARZAN AND THE LION MAN as CONGO-- see David Pringle's ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SCIENCE FICTION.). Characters, descriptions, and situations are much better than expected, making this novel far better than it has any right to be (even if the dino data is a little dated). Doesn't skimp on the thrills, either; like other reviewers have said: not for the kiddies. Chalk this one up as a guilty pleasure.