I read Jurassic Park almost in one sitting-I loved it. And then, as if that weren’t awesome enough, a mad billionaire creates a “zoo” of dinosaurs on a far off tropical island and havoc ensues. It was about scientists discovering a way to artificially bring dinosaurs back to life using DNA discovered in amber. When I was in college in the early 1990s a paleontology professor in a class I was taking told us about a new book to be published by the author Michael Crichton. And it turns out that tech-savvy millennials, aging hippies, and New-Age devotees are on the Bigfoot menu. What they hadn’t planned on was the catastrophic eruption of Mount Rainier AND the subsequent descent of the local Sasquatch population in search of food. Set in today’s Pacific Northwest, the story follows a small group of tech-savvy millennials, aging hippies, New-Age devotees, and a war-hardened senior citizen who build a utopian Back-to-Earth settlement deep in the nearly unpassable forests of Washington State. When I delve into fiction, it’s usually very dark, hard-boiled crime novels or equally dark and existential 1000-page Russian tomes from 150 years ago.īut when I heard the premise of Brooks’ newest novel, I could not resist. I typically read non-fiction – history, philosophy, and true-life disaster accounts. I’ll admit right up front, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks, the author of the wildly successful novel and film World War Z, is not my kind of book.
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