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The Great African Spur-Thighed or Sulcata Tortoise

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I hesitate to dignify this title as a "book". It is badly written, full of racial and sexist insults, details of crime in Miami, the author's right-wing rantings - and precious little of genuine relevance to tortoises. Much of what is printed is just plain wrong. Badly researched and mis-represented. Even the title is wrong!! This is the African SPURRED tortoise - not SPUR-THIGHED tortoise. What a mistake..... but it reflects the bizarre content inside. As for production quality - it looks like it was photocopied as Kinko's on a bad day. What little content there is that is relevant could be squeezed onto the back of a postage stamp. The author/self-publisher has a real nerve putting stuff like this out in the first place. I agree with other reviewers who categorize this as a total rip-off. Don't waste your time and money. There are many, many better books out there - and very few indeed that are as badly written and produced as this garbage.

This book offers little practical advice. The main focus of the "book" is on the personal life of the author and crime in the Miami area. It really isn't a "book" but a bound together sheaf of nothingness. Total rip-off. Don't waste your money. The information on the web is more informative.

This is not a book. It reminded me of a seventh graders science report that was put together by a poor copy shop. I returned the "report" immediately.

Richard Paull is not a great writer, a few marbles short maybe, but he knows a lot about tortoises. There are several "tortoise and turtle" books out there that do not have a clue about raising tortoises. I have been raising them for years and this book (and his others) and any information put out by Tortoise Trust can be trusted. Yes his "dipping story" is a little annoying, his humor a bit strange and you have to read through a lot of "BS" to get the information, but the info is there.

I enjoyed this book, and I go back to it many times.... R.C. Paull writes with an easy style and a great sense of humor.