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Ray Bradbury Presents Dinosaur World

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This book has an excellent idea behind it (what do you expect, it comes from a Ray Bradbury short story) and the world created is very interesting. But, it seems kind of juvenile. The language and culture of the Mutata seemed to have taken little thought. Peter and Eckles aren't developed at all, for that matter neither is Travis. The very idea of Mundo's world (and Mundo himself) is ludicrous. But I saw hope for the series (just 6 books). Towards the end of the story the writing picked up. I saw a lot of room for improvement, but it got better. So, I'll try the next book in the series and see how it goes. Perhaps all six are worth reading, maybe I won't finish the next. It all depends on where Stephen Leigh takes the story.

Leapin' lizards! This is an adventure at every turn of the page. One drawback is the complicated, hard-to-believe time travel aspect. I've personally never done it, so it kinda wrecks the credibility for me. Jurassic Park is better for credibility, but lacks the intelligent dinosaurs, which are a cool idea to consider. Better then either in my opinion, is Thomas Hopp's Dinosaur Wars, where no time travel is involved, and the intelligent (and very credible) dinosaurs are based on the latest science. They are as much birds as reptiles, like velociraptors with feathers. If you like the science fictiony time travel thing, stick to Bradbury's Dinosaur World. If you want a believable story based on the very latest science get Hopp's Dinosaur Wars.

Ray Bradbury, the grand master of American letters,has been my favorite author for a long time. His stories have so much style and substance, and in most of them (October Country need not apply), there is a sense of optimism. I just love his work.

So, I went to a bookstore looking for Stephen King's 'Salems Lot. I found it. However I had enough more money to afford one more book. TO THE SCI-FI/FANTASY SECTION! I was of course looking for a new Bradbury book (or one that I haven't yet read). Well, I found Ray Bradbury Presents Dinosaur World. It was right up there with Fahrenheit 451 and Dandelion Wine. I looked at the back cover. It said something about Time Safari, which I remembered reading about in a story A Sound of Thunder (featured in Classic Stories 1 and I think also in R is for Rocket), so I thought to myself, "Oh, Ray expanded on A sound of Thunder. So that's how they made an entire movie for it (coming this Summer 2004)!"
You know what I did? I bought it, looked it up on Amazon, and realized I made a mistake. I hope Stephen Leigh Is a pen name for Bradbury. Well, I'll read it, but it makes me cringe at how stupid I was to buy this book thinking it was by the master. To my defense, however, it WAS in the Bradbury section.

Sad to have to make this review,

Matt H., Roachman89@aol.com for all you websurfers out there.
Oh, its 3 stars because i haven't read it yet and I'm somewhat optimistic