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	• Tyrannosaur Canyon Douglas Preston Forge Books, 2005 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 122 reviews view larger image
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We need more Tom Broadbent books!

What a great main character Tom Broadbent is, I enjoyed him and Sally in 'The Codex' and got the privilege to get to know them better in 'Tyrannosaur Canyon' just great D. Preston now I am hooked!
As I said the characters are likable and very easy to relate to, they just want peace and quiet and to be able to enjoy each other's company. The bad guys in no way gain our sympathies. In no way was this book similar to any other, I like the adventure and the twists and turns this delightful book had to offer. Keep em up!

ok but predictable

I guess this is a pretty good thriller though I found it to be a little predictable and cliche at times. Good guys win, bad guys lose type of story in the end.

Though it is obvious that a lot of research was put into the writing, some of the characters lacked realism and were a little silly: the ambitious grad. student, the conniving curator, the ex-CIA monk, the ex-con. I did like though how the author gives details about characters that don't necessarily relate to the plot. Oftentimes in a story, the twist hinges on a seemingly banal happening early on. Here we see the ex-con running a prison pen-pal service which does not develop the plot whatsoever. Sort of meaningless but entertaining too.

The monk character may have been the silliest with his non-descript spirituality. I think a monk character could bring a lot to a story but this one was not used well at all.

And would the curator really trust the specimen to somebody else? What an idiot. Just a little to fakey for a story that is desperately trying to be real.

Overall, an entertaining read still. Or better yet, book-on-tape-it which is what I did.

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Tyro Canyon

Great book. Great price. I had trouble putting the book down.
Douglas Preston is a great author.

A Good, but not Great Read

Others have detailed the plot of this novel in their reviews, so I will not go into that in mine. Rather, I would like to give potential readers the pros and cons of the book, the way I see them.

Overall, I think this book is a good, average to slightly above average thriller, with certain technical and genre issues that cause it to be a lower quality novel than it could have been. Here is why I say that...

On the Pro side...

1. The characters are engaging and you come to care about them. I found that the good characterization was what really brought me into the novel.
2. While there are a few slow spots, the overall pace of the book is good for a thriller.
3. The story is interesting and you want to find out what happens.

On the Con side...

1. This book is somewhat schizophrenic. In my opinion, it really doesn't know what it wants to be. It's basically a technothriller with elements of a political thriller and a woman in jeopardy thriller rolled in, and they don't seem to fit (at least to me). As I read the book, I felt like the author threw together these three genre without any thought to how they intermeshed. In some ways, it was like reading three different books in one, with their only connection being the dinosaur. While some authors weave differing stories together, they usually do so in such a way that the stories are interlinked and weaved together as the book progresses. I did not get that sense here. I think the author would have been better served to drop the political thriller part, which comes to the fore near the end of the book, and concentrate on the main story, with the New York piece as the "B" story line.
2. There are some technical errors in the book. Most people would never notice them, but for those of us who catch such things, they drive us nuts. For example, at one point, one of the characters notices that another has been looking at a fossile trilobite and mentions that it's a Cenozoic specimen. For the record, trilobites lived during almost all of (and died out at the end of) the Paleozoic era, some 185 million years before the Cenozoic era began.
3. There are some fairly subtle logical issues that tend to be disconcerting to those of use who catch them. I don't remember the specific examples, though there were several and they were rather disconcerting at the time I read them.

In conclusion, this is the kind of book I would read on the beach or in other situations where I wanted to read something, but didn't expect much other than some fairly fun distraction from what I was reading.

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What a treat!

I decided to pick up this book after reading Relic and its sequal Reliquary. I thought it was absolutely addicting. I flew through the pages! I felt that Preston did a fantastic job building suspense while keeping the sense of mystery through out the novel. It had a little more guns and shootings than what I usually like, but given the context of the book, it is appropriate. I do agree with other viewers though - the only way this book is AT ALL comparable to Jurassic Park is because it is about a dinosaur. The comparison stops there. Either way, I found this book to be highly entertaining. I would definitely recommend it for readers that want suspense and action over the fossil black market.

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A stunning new archaeological thriller by the New York Times bestselling co-author of Brimstone and Relic.
A moon rock missing for thirty years...
Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon...
A scientist with ambition enough to kill...
A monk who will redeem the world...
A dark agency with a deadly mission...
The greatest scientific discovery of all time...
What fire bolt from the galactic dark shattered the Earth eons ago, and now hides in that remote cleft in the southwest U.S. known as Tyrannosaur Canyon?
The stunning new novel from the acclaimed bestselling author, recently hailed by Publisher?s Weekly as ?better than Crichton.?

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