A review by kingfan30
The Day of the Dolphin by Robert Merle

3.0

I had no idea what this book was about when I picked up and after reading a few pages and realising it was dolphins in captivity I wondered if I could carry on - its something I don't agree with. But I decided to stick with it for a bit before closing it up for good. As it turned out there is something about this book that made me want to carry on reading. I liked the fact there were the different formats, the letters, recoded conversation and the main story, it helped to break things up a bit. On a negative, the main story was huge paragraphs with very little punctuation and no speech marks to indicate when people were speaking, you had to keep your with a out you to stay on track of who was saying what. I also found some of the reports a bit long winded to. Overall not a bad read though and I believe there's a film which I may have to track down for a watch.