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A review by ketreads
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte
4.5
This book does everything it says on the tin!
The author sets out to give us an overview of millions of years of life, death, and extinction and managed to capture my attention throughout. I loved the authors choice to focus in on specific dinosaurs or facts surrounding dinosaurs. This gave him time to not only explain his conclusion but also the ways in which his peers managed to find this tid bit or information and the thought/studying processes that go into confirming these conclusions.
The only reason this isn't 5 stars is I felt there was a massive section at about 60% of the way through which focuses on just the T-rex. Don't get me wrong, a lot of what was explained was fascinating and tucked into my ''cool dinosaur facts'' part of my brain. I only wish this section was slightly shorter (It takes up a good chunk of the book) as it does give us less time overall to look at other dinosaurs in such detail.
Other than that, I'd highly recommend this book to someone even mildly interested in dinosaurs. It's well written and the science parts are dumbed down enough for even me to understand.
The author sets out to give us an overview of millions of years of life, death, and extinction and managed to capture my attention throughout. I loved the authors choice to focus in on specific dinosaurs or facts surrounding dinosaurs. This gave him time to not only explain his conclusion but also the ways in which his peers managed to find this tid bit or information and the thought/studying processes that go into confirming these conclusions.
The only reason this isn't 5 stars is I felt there was a massive section at about 60% of the way through which focuses on just the T-rex. Don't get me wrong, a lot of what was explained was fascinating and tucked into my ''cool dinosaur facts'' part of my brain. I only wish this section was slightly shorter (It takes up a good chunk of the book) as it does give us less time overall to look at other dinosaurs in such detail.
Other than that, I'd highly recommend this book to someone even mildly interested in dinosaurs. It's well written and the science parts are dumbed down enough for even me to understand.