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David McK (3405 KP) rated The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World in Books

May 8, 2022  
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
Stephen Brusatte | 2018 | Education, History & Politics, Natural World
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I picked this up on sale for something like 99p on Kindle.

I have to say, I'm glad I didn't pay full price for it.

I mean no disrespect, but I did find this quite hard to get through, and really not at all what I was expecting from the blurb/description on the link I followed to purchase it - I'm not sure why, but it just didn't gel with me.

Oh, some of the bits actually *about* the dinosaurs were interesting enough, but I did - generally - find them to be wheat amongst the chaff, rather than the 'main course' (which, I felt, was more about the contemporary exploits of the author).

Oh, there's no doubt he knows his stuff; maybe this was simply a case where expectation did not meet reality and maybe, if I had known pre-purchase that this was more about the state of palaeontology today than about the age of the dinosaurs my view may have been different?

Anyway, it's read cover to cover now. Doubt it is one I will be heading back to anytime soon.