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The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs and Fate in the Gilded Age

4 reviews
David Rains Wallace

Mariner Books, 2000

Comprehensive history of America's greatest scientific feud
This marvelous volume by David Rains Wallace is a balanced, thorough, and insightful recounting of the greatest, most needless, and most tragic scientific conflict in American history: the Cope-Marsh feud. I say "balanced" because most writers, especially those with an environmentalist/naturalist bent like Wallace, have tended to side with Othniel C. Marsh over Edward D. Cope. The reason isn't ...

The Bonehunter

1 review
Tom Holland

Little, Brown, 2001

Probably the worst book I have ever read
I respect books and I have a large collection. In my opinion the worst that can be done to a book is to burn it. I struggled to the end of this poorly-written, inane, boring, pathetic nonsense and went into my garden and set it down. I placed two fire lighters on the cover and lit it. Astonishingly it only took a few minutes for it to turn to ashes.

In Search of Lost Civilizations: Adventures in Archeology (The Bonehunter Series)

5 reviews
Thom Tansey

Rainbow Books, 2000

An intellectual's view of ancient civilizations
Thom Tansey's "In Search of Lost Civilizations: Adventures in Archeology" is a fascinating book. This is an account by the author of his travels to the sites of different ancient civilizations in Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States. Tansey is our guide through these many ancient civilizations, and what an interesting guide he is. As the reader is led through these ancient sites ...

Bonehunters

18 reviews
Steven Erikson

BANTAM PRESS (TWLD), 2006

Current Master of Fantasy
I've almost stopped reading fantasy because after a while it all turns into an endless smudge. Things blend. Characters all come to resemble eachother. Relationships mirror those of previous fantasy generations. Worlds are simulcrum and ready for uploading to the euphoria machine and character power on the whole is not controlled and goes insipid usually killing the novel in its last gasps. ...

The Bonehunters: Book Six of The Malazan Book of the Fallen
Steven Erikson

Tor Books, 2007

The Bonehunters (Malazan Book of the Fallen, Book 6)

19 reviews
Steven Erikson

Bantam, 2007

A truly epic and colorful world...
I am utterly amazed at how well Erikson pulled this book off. It has many avenues to lose focus and to make it hard for the reader, such as the multiple plot lines and huge cast of characters. Despite all this Erikson pulls it off amazingly. He was able to keep the story flowing and there was a ton of stuff going on as the plot lines are slowly converging, just as the God's and their mortal ...

The Bonehunters: Book Six of The Malazan Book of the Fallen
Steven Erikson

Tor Fantasy, 2008

The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Sha'ik is dead. One last rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y'Ghatan and under the fanatical command of Leoman of the Flails. The prospect of laying siege to this ancient fortress makes the battle-weary Malaz 14th Army uneasy. For it was here that the Empire's greatest champion Dassem Ultor was slain and a tide of Malazan blood spilled. A place of foreboding, its smell is of death. But ...