Carnosaur

Harry Adam Knight's Carnosaur proves to me just how good an author he is. I just finished his novel Slimer (A Star Book), which is magnificant, and now he comes up with another great novel that includes one of my favorite (extinct) species of the world: Dinosaurs. Warning though: if you don't like violence, this book is not for you. Moving on though...the book starts off immedietly with gore, with a Deinonyichus(raptor) attacking a farmer. His wife sees him being mauled by the dinosaur, and has a heart attack. Cut to the forest, with two teens in a car. They are terrified to discover that they are in the woods, and the same raptor now kills one of the teens. The other one panicks, starts the car, and accidently drives into a tree, killing her instantly. Soon the escaped raptor carries on to other victems... But then it is caught, and brought back to it's home, in the infamous Penward Zoo. But thats not what the reporters hear,(who really in their right mind would say "i'm illegally cloning dinosaurs from chicken eggs and one just happened to become loose and kill some people!") Because that's what Sir Penward is doing, and he's doing his best to cover his, and the dinosaur's tracks...until one snoopy reporter comes along. Him and his friend are determined to uncover the truth... But Sir Penward's wife has let all of his dinosaurs loose on the unsuspecting town, which wakes up to an unpleasent sight of carnage, chaos, and dinosaurs. The book is pretty fast paced, and YES Micheal Chrichton DID copy this book for Jurassic Park. And to think I read and enjoyed JP first. Also, the movie Carnosaur is based on this book, although the movie is surprisingly different.(The book and movie only share a few kill scenes.) Either way, this book is highly recommended, or a grade: A. Oh, and one last note, if you enjoyed this book, than I recommend Leigh Clark's Carnivore.

Shame on Mr. Crichton for ripping off this much better novel (He seems to have done a similar job by adapting Burroughs's TARZAN AND THE LION MAN as CONGO-- see David Pringle's ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SCIENCE FICTION.). Characters, descriptions, and situations are much better than expected, making this novel far better than it has any right to be (even if the dino data is a little dated). Doesn't skimp on the thrills, either; like other reviewers have said: not for the kiddies. Chalk this one up as a guilty pleasure.

.... I just finished reading it and if your looking for decent story that has plenty of dinosaur chomping humans in a graphic manner then you've come to the right place. Its pretty straight forward read , interesting story line , decent characters , lotsa violence (beware kiddies!), and some sex (beware american kiddies!). The dinosaurs are depicted fairly well , Infact I was expecting them to be slighly more reptilian but the book describes them pretty well even thought the book was based on dino info from the 80's. Funnily enough this version seems like a slightly watered down version of micheal crichtons 'jurassic park' novel , except this book came first. it almost seems like mr crichton read this book and decided to elaborate some more on , borrowing the themes and *gasp* the dinosaurs species themselves from this book. Crichton made dinosaurs in his book sound better when it came to movements and he basically rewrote this book times 10 (instead on estate , he wrote about a park. He describes the method of cloning in more detail in his book , but its uncannily similar to whats in carnosaur). harry adam knight (not his real name!) treats the humans in his novel with contempt and a lot of monster cliches are used and but then again alot of them are broken. basically if life was fair it would be mr. knight rolling around in hollywood dino bucks not mr. crichton, because after reading carnosaur it becomes pretty obivious where crichton ripped his ideas from. once again if you wanna read where the original 'dinosaurs escaping and running amok story' this is the one to start with , pretenders beware (even if their really good pretenders!).

...by the adaptation to film, the book is nothing like the film. This is a book much like Jurassic Park (the Novel) - The dinosaurs *do* eat people, and in the most realistic way possible, lets be honest, there has to be blood, and from the first chapter to the last the blood flows. I first read this when I was 15, and keep coming back to it year after year, as the story never fails to keep the tension up. If you like Jurassic Park, give it a go, if you hate it - at least you'll know, if you like it, well, you will have expanded your author list!

This book is a verry good book. It is a must read 4 any one that likes storeys about dinosaurs rampaging among humans. Downt be fooled by the terible movie rendition. This is a verry good book.