Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Tor Classics
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780812543261ISBN:0812543262
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Lots of wear, still a solid reading copy. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 480 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Tor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780812563580ISBN:0812563581
Description: Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Creasing to spine. Light shelf wear. Solid copy with clean pages. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780765354945ISBN:0765354942
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
"This is an absolutely fantastic read! It kept me on the edge of my seat all the way through (which didn't take long). I could not put it down. Action, adventure, suspense in a real thriller of a story! I didn't realize how quickly I went through this one. Great Read!"
"A fun, quick read. Irritating in it's portrayal of science and scientists. The key points of the supposedly 'controversial' theory were taught in undergraduate courses in mainstream universities some seven years before the publication of the book. The variations from that theory were apparently derived by one scientists intuition on nothing more than a single piece of fossil evidence. The scientists are all totally unbelievable ($100 handkerchief? give me a break). The detective is a pastiche, as are the unlikable bureaucrats, none of whom have any comprehensible motive for their nefarious deeds.
Given that, it's a quick read, and fun. Awfully long to be made into a movie, but I think they could cut a ton of stuff out and you'd never notice."
"This is pure "beach" stuff. A crazy monster, shredded victims, dumb museum administrators, misguided scientists, typical power struggles between characters (pretty easy to guess who'll live and whose hubris will lead to a grisly demise). I see the books these two guys put out all the time. Apparently, there's a viable market for this poop. (I'm now a low-level participant in their charade, stimulating their personal economies, I guess.)
I hereby declare this "Excellent Commode Literature." A true Stuck-in-the-Airport Thriller of No Great Import."
"I'll start by saying I would have given this book three and a half stars, had that been an option. I went lower instead of higher mostly because I had such a hard time getting into it. The beginning wasn't exactly slow.. it just didn't grab me. It didn't have the cinematic feel of the other book I've read by Preston and Child (which is ironic since this one was made into a movie). I was about two thirds of the way through the book before I actually really started to get into it. But once I did, I was sucked in by the tension that Preston and Child are so good at creating. I figured out the twists in this one (with the exception of the one in the epilogue.. that one surprised me!), and I figured out how to kill the monster a long time before the characters did, but I still enjoyed reading it. I preferred the other Pendergast book I read (unfortunately before realizing there was a series), but was told by others I know who have read them that they get progressively better and that Relic is the least fantastic (I wouldn't want to say "worst" since the book was good). If it only gets better from here, I definitely plan on reading all the books in the series."
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