Review: A bit of an anticlimax
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 15, 2014
I admire someone who takes on a 'retelling' of a story and despite the result, I admire Brent Saltzman for trying it.Why? Because the original was a book of its time, there was little knowledge of deepest Africa when the original was written and the book bordered on plausible. Unfortunately we now live in a world where Google Earth sees into our darkest corners and 'unexplored territories. So the idea of an unknown basin 9 miles across made from a prehistoric meteor strike is highly unlikely. OK so it helps the story!Unfortunately I found the book a bit tame with the characters struggling to maintain my interest. In light of books like Jurassic Park that justified their storyline with technology and imaginative science this story needs a cleverer plot to compete in this literary genre.Good on you Brent for trying this, but you can't retell a story from one time into another without some structural changes.However despite my criticism I did finish the book and I enjoyed it most of it.