He redeemed himself a bit with the nonfiction part of the T-Rex chapter, but man, that narrative tone and his "I'm the greatest thing since sliced bread and I'm best buddies with all the cool kids in paleontology (even the long-dead ones)" attitude seriously grated pretty much from page 1 to literal...
This is another book that I loved as a child, but was a very different experience when read as an adult. The scenes and images and emotions that I remembered most vividly were still beautiful – those between Buck and John Thornton. The tenderly rough way that man and dog expressed love for each othe...
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