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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
informative
lighthearted
slow-paced
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Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
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⅔A thoroughly enjoyable novel spanning millennia. Following the escapades of a mammoth, from his early days leading his herd through to being sold as a fossil at a natural history auction this novel is filled with dry wit and humour.
Inspired by the history of an actual Mammoth fossil, this story takes you on a journey filled with heart. A big history, this novel takes aim at humanity taking digs at our excess and failings. An absolute gem, and totally unique, this novel is for any with the slightest interest in natural history.
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Inspired by the history of an actual Mammoth fossil, this story takes you on a journey filled with heart. A big history, this novel takes aim at humanity taking digs at our excess and failings. An absolute gem, and totally unique, this novel is for any with the slightest interest in natural history.
For interest sake, the below article gives an interesting story about how Leonardo Di Caprio and Nicolas Cage tie into the novel https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/10/nicolas-cage-leonardo-dicaprio-dinosaur-skull
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Imagine Night at the Museum, except your protagonist is a 13000 year old Mammoth skeleton, a tyrannosaurus fossil, a mummified Egyptian queens hand, a pterodactyl and a fossilised penguin. And the adventures are somewhat more adult and adventurous but no less zany.
adventurous
emotional
funny
informative
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
An epic, sweeping, and hilarious cautionary tale of the troubling history and journey of humankind told through the perspective of a fossilised Mammoth! Our Mammoth is about to be sold at auction in New York City and shares a temporary warehouse space with the skull of an asteroid-obsessed cousin of the T.Rex , a prehistoric fossilised penguin with an attitude, a mummified hand that is convinced she is Egyptian royalty, and lastly by a Pterodactyl skeleton - the only one it seems which is content to listen to the long and winding narrative from our verbose mastodon. Throughout the narrative we hear each artifact's take on how they died and humanity's role to play in their demise, also how the Earth prospered within their particular lifetimes. Always alongside is the impact of humans (Clovis, as dubbed by the Mammoth) and the wanton destruction and exploitation of every resource at their hands. At the centre is the story of the mammoth; it's life, death, interment, and the adventurous journey after its release from the earth, a treasure to be stolen repeatedly and traversing continents. A great new literary take on eco and historical fiction and a must read for our times.
adventurous
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Fabulously strange.