- Taschenbuch: 400 Seiten
- Verlag: Aspect; Auflage: First THUS (1. Februar 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0446606669
- ISBN-13: 978-0446606660
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17 x 10,4 x 2,5 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 2.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (11 Kundenrezensionen)
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- Nr. 96 in Englische Bücher > Fantasy & Science Fiction > Fantasy > Alternative Weltgeschichte
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Remember Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, in which an expedition led by Professor George Edward Challenger discovered an Amazonian plateau where dinosaurs still roamed? In Dinosaur Summer, Greg Bear assumes that Challenger's expedition really took place, and that for nearly 50 years dinosaurs have been relatively commonplace in zoos and circuses throughout the world. But the beasts are not easily kept in captivity, and slowly but surely their numbers are dwindling. Now there is only one dinosaur circus left, and it's shutting down. The dinosaur trainer wants to return his animals to the wild, so an expedition is organised to return the dinos to their nearly inaccessible plateau. Accompanying the group (which includes special effects master Ray Harryhausen) is 15-year-old Peter Belzoni, the son of the National Geographic photographer covering the story. The boy is about to have the adventure of a lifetime.
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Remember Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, in which an expedition led by Professor George Edward Challenger discovered an Amazonian plateau where dinosaurs still roamed? In Dinosaur Summer, Greg Bear assumes that Challenger's expedition really took place, and that for nearly 50 years dinosaurs have been relatively commonplace in zoos and circuses throughout the world. But the beasts are not easily kept in captivity, and slowly but surely their numbers are dwindling. Now there is only one dinosaur circus left, and it's shutting down. The dinosaur trainer wants to return his animals to the wild, so an expedition is organized to return the dinos to their nearly inaccessible plateau. Accompanying the group (which includes special-effects master Ray Harryhausen) is 15-year-old Peter Belzoni, the son of the National Geographic photographer covering the story. The boy is about to have the adventure of a lifetime.
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Some readers think that this is the greatest book since sliced bread. I disagree. I have always liked dinosaurs, since small I liked reading about these big animals and all. I read Lost world, and I love it. When I saw this book from Greg Bear, I was excited. Especially knowing the writer was an award winning author. Well, now I read it, and I sure wouldnt read another book written by him. I'll tell you why. The book, first of all, is more dedicated to young children, apart from the death of one of the characters in the end. Not even a single romance. But I am not complaining. As some of the readers have said, its really nothing much untill more than half of the book. At least it could have shown more of the characters in those wasted space. But no, the first half of the book is a travel log. And a usual one at that, with dinosaur for a baggage. Nothing exciting, I think any experience in the airport nowadays would be about the same. Then comes the character. There are some funny comments alright, but it is mostly showing a bunch of guys feeling brave, making silly jokes in front of death staring at them. Like any other science fiction, bear tried to put the effect of indian beliefs inside the story, and have Peter the main character dream about some legends. There is problem to this, which is that there is no precedence of this in the Lost story. Second, I took the book for the dinosaurs.... third, seeing that he did put dreams after all, he could have told us the meaning. Instead of just making the character dream of changing body shape from maggot to jaguar to ants and all, and not letting us know what it meant. One of the indians was in a sidequest, and the way he talks didnt even get cleared. We never knew what or who odosha really was, was it a god, or a tree, or an animal? what the death door was , whether its a challenge, or anything? Then, in the story, the characters would see animals, and we'd be given some latin names. none of the character was a scientist of some sort, yet they seem to be naming the animals anyhow. not really realistic. Then the way Greg Bear writes his story. its all from one character's point of view, which is Peter. it would have been much nicer if when he got separated from his friends and dad, that the view changes from him to his dad's group. And to the producer who came at last to save the day. But no, its all from one point of view. the whole adventure was about peter, and then he'd meet back with his friends, and his friends would tell him their story in about a page or so. Then for the final blow, Greg Bear put a "What's real , and What's not" section in the end of the book. While it is being truthful to his readers, but it confirmed my suspicions while I was reading the book. Many , almost all the dino's was made up. I like made up things, I read science fictions a lot. Only when I prefer to have it made up. When I took a book about some dinosaur story, thats exactly what I wanted....a story of dinosaur. And there are more than enough dinosaurs to fill up a whole book for predators and all, and yet he had to made up his own. This disappoints me. I think Lost world's dinosaurs was real. Or was it? Now that I read Greg Bear's book, I got a little doubt.
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Definitely the weakest of all of Greg Bear's books. Not up to his usual standards of originality or depth. It'd be a good book for Jr. High kids interested in dinosaurs, and it'd make a great 'really bad B-movie'. But generally, you can feel free to skip this work.
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Greg Bear ist an sich ein Autor, den ich sehr schätze. Hier ist ihm allerdings ein literarischer Ausrutscher passiert. Das Buch fängt langweilig mit einem schier endlosen Vorgeplänkel an, in dem zu viele Charaktere kurz vorgestellt werden. Der eigentliche Hauptteil mit der Flucht über das Hochplateau hat zwar einen Hauch von Spannung, diese wird allerdings durch äußerst unglaubwürdige Handlungsabläufe sofort wieder zunichte gemacht. Schade Herr Bear, Buch mißglückt!
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A delight
I'm not surprised that this book has been underrated by many readers. It comes from another age, when Doyle and Burroughs were the hottest adventure writers around. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Juli 1999 von D. Thierry
Captivating premise, dragged out plot!
Greg Bears new book is a test! A test of one's patience, intelligence and SF devotion. The first half reads like a poorly written travel log and than the plot takes a very... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
I couldn't believe dinosaurs could be so boring!
I don't know about the Lost World that Bear refers to, but this is certainly a lost opportunity! To get to the 60 pages or so of reasonably exciting (if predictable) material, the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
Better than Jurassic Park!
As I read this book, I kept thinking what a fantastic movie it would make, and I hope someone takes up that challenge. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. März 1999 veröffentlicht
Grand old fashioned rollicking good time adventure!
This book picks you right up, puts you on its shoulders and strides strongly forth for a REAL adventure. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. Februar 1999 von J. Lundgren
My Least favorite Bear Novel
I was extremely dissapointed with this book. It lacked excitement and characters I could care about. This was a poor attempt at 50's juvenile science fiction, sorry Greg. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
One of Greb Bear's worst books
This book is one of Greg Bear's worst. You could rip the pages of the first half of the book out and you would not miss a thing. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 8. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
More dinosaur action would have been nice
I never thought Dinosaurs could be so boring. In this book the author set out to create a world where dinosaurs were mostly taken for granted. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
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