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Tyrannosaur Canyon

By: Douglas Preston
Narrated by: Scott Sowers
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Publisher's summary

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?
©2005 Splendide Mendax, Inc. (P)2005 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC

Critic reviews

"Better than Crichton." (Publishers Weekly)
"Preston keeps the adventure high, springing plenty of nifty surprises along the way." (People)
"Give him lots of credit...for thrills. He can write gripping escape scenes and bloody confrontations with the best of them." (Booklist)

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    1 out of 5 stars

The Narrator!!!

This book looked very interesting, but 5 minutes listening to this narrator WILL TURN ANYONE OFF!!! Has anyone liked this Scott fellow... he seems to be a terrible reader.

It's too bad, this might have been a good listen....

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  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars

A wait in your driveway book

I didn't go into the house as I waited for a section to finish. This just absolutely appealed to me; Dinosaurs, DNA, cryptic code, intrigue, religion, secret ops and a bad guys coming out every which way. I liked it because I didn't see how the good guys were going to pull it off. I learned a lot about museums and the personalities who work there. The interview at the end kept me as enthralled as the book.

I can't wait to encounter the characters again.

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  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars

A pleasure to listen to

The quality of the writing is not in the same league as that of The Pieces of the Puzzle by Robert Stanek, but I was able to suspend my disbelief and hang in there for the ride. As far as the narrator being horrible, listen to the sample and decide for yourself. I felt the narrator was good and helped bring the story and the characters to life.

Only reason I give this book 3 stars instead of 4 (which it probably deserves) is because as a scientist, I often find books written with science as a story element to be oversimplified or simply wrong. This book is no exception, but again I was able to suspend my disbelief and enjoy the story.

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  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars

Not bad, but...

Not a bad book, but it suffers a bit from an image problem.

If you are like me you read the publisher's summary, and still had no clue what this book is about. So, if you are like me you went to the book store and read the description in the book jacket. Wow, still no clue what the book is about. So, if you're still like me you decided that the title was interesting, the teasers in the description were interesting, and you went home and downloaded it from Audible.

So what did I end up with? A very odd, quirky, interesting story.

Don't let the teasers fool you. This is not a high tech thriller. This is a good old fashioned murder mystery, with some very interesting characters thrown in. The science angle is almost an afterthought. So much so, in fact, that it doesn't really come into play until the final few chapters. And then only as the explanation for the murder that happens in the first chapter of the book. And the explanation, when it comes, is quite far-fetched.

But buy this book, and listen to it. You'll be glad that you did. Preston does a great job of developing the characters, and leaves the door open for the two of the characters to star in a series of stories. I hope they do!

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  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars

Fun adventure with Douglas Preston at the Pen!

I always find it to "fall" into any of the books he has written or co-written. What is fun with this adventure is that it adds layers of science, geography, mystery and geology. The story made the miles fly by as I drove. The reader was just fine. I just wish I had had a map of the high mesa country of New Mexico!

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  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars

Excellent Listen

Without a doubt, this is one of the best listens I've gotten from Audible. Kind of like, a Tony Hillerman novel mixed with Indiana Jones and Jurraisic Park. The narrator is excellent and makes this book a delight to listen to. A definate page turner that's hard to put down. If you like mystery and adventure then I highly recommend this book.

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  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars

Action packed adventure

A well researched and entertaining read. Some scenes and situations are a bit impossible, but suspend the disbelief and go with it. I didn't find the narrator to be at all a problem, but then I can't stand Scott Brick and others seem to find him enchanting. Go figure.

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  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars

Loved It !

I'm SUCH a dinosaur fan that I've flown all over to see Sue The Tyranasuarus at the Field Museum, Chicago, several times...so..this book really got me going !
Great narration, terrific (even if a bit far fetched) story and wonderful characters.
It's made me a new fan of the author (I just finished his Book of the Dead as well) and can't wait to sample more of his work.
This book was hard to put down. I just kept waiting for more things to unfold.

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  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars

Chrichton-Esque

Made for movies with paper thin characters each drawn from central casting. There's the plucky vet (why he's a veterinarian I cannot figger) who just happens to have a zillion dollars in the bank, a beautiful wife, perfect for damsel in distress scenes, and an assortment of people who take about a paragraph each to define for us. The plot keeps the minutes turning... or should I say plots which just barely avoid bumping into the absurd. It all rides on a preposterous decision on the part of the vet's... buy that, and you'll probably enjoy this finely read, but forgettable time-filler. Great listening in the gym.

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  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars

Good enough.

I also thought that the reader was fine...not great but certainly not troubling. The book was pretty good as well as most of the characters do things that are within reason (both good and bad), which is where many of these types of novels tend to fail.

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