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It has been occurring to me that I wrapped up the baffling scientific study, zoology during my gratified high school studies, but the day I met The Different Kind Of Monsters by Seth Chambers, I felt I know nothing. This novel is about a story of an incurious man called Dylan obsessed by a villainous monster, Emily.
In 139 chapters, Chambers wrote a scientific fiction on how dinosaurs in their pack subsisted and lived cooperatively during Jurassic period. Seth colligated this period with Dylan puerility, 1970 and maturity, 2001. A family of allosaurs, a mother and four children survived in Jurassic period. Mother taught her children how to hunt and survive and they grasp the lesson. On the other hand, at six age Dylan visited a museum where he observed a skeleton of a gigantic monster called Emily and from that day forth, this monster followed him in whole his life, though his family was nomadic. Changing schools and friends was ones that characterized Dylan childhood but finally he graduated and became a teacher in Chicago.
They are two things I loved most in this book. Firstly, I fell all over author's felicitous turn of phrases though initially it was a fuddle. The use of capitalized First, Second, Third and Last in the middle of sentences confused the reader from the first, but finally he found that they were allosaurs. Their mother thought them how patience during hunting is needed whatever over-solicitous condition they are. And again she never let them go to rack and ruin, but she thought them survival skills that helped them to subsist in mesh.
The second thing I liked most was the author's technique of alternating three stories; the story of monsters, Dylan puerility and that of his maturity. This idiomatic novel might have been a tedious story but this technique helps the author to grasp my attention.
The author used titles and chapters to help the reader to find any information needed easily but most chapters were not necessary. Let me clarify this statement so that it cannot be a fatuitous argument. Think about this, 270 pages were splintered into 139 chapters? For me this was a fallacious choice. After digging, I came out finding that some chapters have the same content and even the same paragraph. For example chapter 84 and 85 might have been one chapter.
The novel was well edited, but rather some grammatical errors and typos were found. I rate 3 out of 4 stars this book, in that, the author use numerous idioms and sophisticated words that will hinder the reader's enjoyment. I recommend this book mostly to parents due to naught or indecent scenes, moreover it contains far more meritorious lessons that can help children to go far enough.
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The Different Kinds Of Monsters
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