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Summary: Thunder and Lightning
Review: D.L.Tanner weaves a wonderfully appealing story around characters that you can love, hate, pity, and understand.The interplay of characters, especially Ian, Alma, and the controlling powers of the mission, keeps your imagination soaring like the cryptid thunderbird.
Whether you are a believer, skeptic, or complete disbeliever in the legend of the thunderbird, you come away from the book with a warm feeling that Ian and Alma are two people you would really love to know better.
This is a book that, as a retired teacher ,I could recommend to students with the knowledge that it is exciting and that there would be no need to apologize for profanity and vulgarity.There is plenty of action and far-out technology, as well as a foundation well rooted in the ancient world.
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Summary: What a Ride!
Review: Finally an author who not only knows his subject, but who writes beautifully! This story takes you on an amazing journey of discovery. Not just of Thunderbirds or their possible exsistence, but of personal discovery. You watch as Ian the main character, stretches and grows. If you're looking for sex, violence or bad language, thankfully this book is not for you. It's about time someone wrote a story with real human characters, warts and all, to let us know not everyone is Rambo! I can't wait for the next story to come out.
WELL DONE D.L. Tanner!!
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Summary: I loved it!
Review: I can't remember having such a great time reading a book. The main character is humanly flawed, allowing the readers to identify with him. The humor is witty and on target. D.L Tanner has taken a Native American legend and turned it into a believable reality. The journey he takes you on is well thought out and wonderfully vivid in detail. I felt like I was making the trek right along side Ian and Alma. I was deeply moved by the ending and the characters I have grown to love.How refreshing to pick up a book that is not inundated with sex, violence and bad language. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a well-researched adventure. Kudos, D.L.Tanner!!
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Summary: A pleasent read!!
Review: I enjoyed this book and it's a pleasure to see an author writing on the subject of unknown animals and take this science seriously
the subject matter is very interesting and opens my mind to the possiblities of the existence of large thunderbirds still living today. I look foward to future novels written by D.L. Tanner.
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Summary: Cryptozoology Tour De' Force
Review: I have been a student of cryptozoology for over 35 years. My collection of books on this subject by diverse authors is quite extensive. The greatest challenge these writers face is to make what can be a daunting intellectual journey interesting and enjoyable to long time students as well as to those new to the field. D. L. Tanner has accomplished this in spades with "Shadow of The Thunderbird." In this book he has taken most all of the reliable reports of these creatures from years past and woven them into a novel. Since I have studied this subject in the past it was very nice to have so many disparate facts gathered in one place. Mr. Tanner could have obviously written a dry textbook or doctoral dissertation on this subject, but has done us a far greater service by putting forth his case in this book. I wholeheartedly recommend this fine work of cryptozoology research to anyone with an interest in the field. I also recommend it without reservation to anyone who is interested in an interesting and well written adventure novel. Finally, it is my hope that we see many more good things from Mr. Tanner over the years to come.
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Summary: Cryptozoology Tour De' Force
Review: I have been a student of cryptozoology for over 35 years. My collection of books on this subject by diverse authors is quite extensive. The greatest challenge these writers face is to make what can be a daunting intellectual journey interesting and enjoyable to long time students as well as to those new to the field. D. L. Tanner has accomplished this in spades with "Shadow of The Thunderbird." In this book he has taken most all of the reliable reports of these creatures from years past and woven them into a novel. Since I have studied this subject in the past it was very nice to have so many disparate facts gathered in one place. Mr. Tanner could have obviously written a dry textbook or doctoral dissertation on this subject, but has done us a far greater service by putting forth his case in this book. I wholeheartedly recommend this fine work of cryptozoology research to anyone with an interest in the field. I also recommend it without reservation to anyone who is interested in an interesting and well written adventure novel. Finally, it is my hope that we see many more good things from Mr. Tanner over the years to come.
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Summary: Really good read
Review: I read this book over a long weekend and couldn't put it down. This is a good read. It's an exciting story about an under-utilized area of fiction(?). The facts were detailed and obviously well researched. I now know more than I thought there was to know about thunderbirds. I've contacted Mr. Tanner and the minor editing problems he had will be fixed in the edition coming out this spring. I attended his SCCS Conference in November and was impressed with the width and breath of his knowledge. I look forward to his next book about bigfoot.
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Summary: Secrets even the gov't does have
Review: I shall begin my brief review with the statement that I enjoy cryptozoology, particularly regarding bigfoot/sasquatch, and feel that anyone with an interest in any of the subject matters of cryptozoology will findd this book a worthy read. Some people will enjoy it far more than others as you can see from the other reviews. For this particular book, I found it interesting but not captivatingly so. The author makes a concerted effort to employ your imagination with the legend of the thunderbirds and tries to get you to suspend your beliefs on secret research organizations.
In the case of the Chimera Foundation, I just wasn't buying the hole setup of it, I found it to be rather James Bond-ish with its secret accesses and gizmos. I felt no real connection with the characters of Ian or Alma but hope that will change with the next book. I did like the neurotic conspiracy theorist Myers and the security head Burroughs. The relationships between Ian, Alma, and Amelia (?) are weak and uninteresting. As for the inclusion of the thunderbirds, that draws enough interest to get me to read the book. With heavy influence from Native American lore, the author does an adequate job of getting you to believe in the thunderbirds and the adventure leading up to their 'discovery'. But to be honest, I only found this book readable, and I probably will not read it again in the future (this being a deciding factor on the 3 out of 5 star rating).
A detriment to the book, which is by no fault the author', is the shoddy job of editing and typos (at least in the copy I have). However, there were various points in the book when I felt that Mr. Tanner was getting a bit long-winded and was dragging out unimportant points or backstory to where I would lose interest and set the book aside for the night. I am truly hoping the next book is more enthralling as this one was just passable for me. As I mentioned earlier, other people will enjoy this book much more than I did and it is worth reading once.
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Summary: Poorly written
Review: I was very interested in reading this book, based on the other reviews written. However, I had a difficult time with it. The writing was very jarring. At one point, a manuscript has almost 300 pages, but a few paragraphs later the same manuscript is barely 200 pages. The heroine has curly hair, and a little later has straight hair. ... I found myself spending more time saying "Hey, wait a minute..." and going back to check facts that didn't jive. ...
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Summary: Cryptofiction at its best--D. L. Tanner's "Shadow".
Review: If you want everything an adventure novel can offer--fast-packed action, chilly suspense, a lovable hero you can identify with, beautiful, heartfelt prose, and a blockbuster ending, then "Shadow of the Thunderbird" is the literary adventure for you. Mr. Tanner's novel of the search for the Ultimate Big Bird fulfills all those criteria and more. But let me warn you: Once you start, you'll have extreme difficulty putting it down and it's not short! Give yourself an all-nighter and into the next day. I wouldn't advise starting it if you have to get up and go to work the next morning. You won't function well without any sleep. I'm already looking forward to the next book in the series which the author is working on as we speak. Hope it won't take him too long!
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