MissLucas August 27, 2015 Share August 27, 2015 Thanks for the review. I was seriously pondering to get the book - you saved me a couple of bucks! Link to comment
raven August 30, 2015 Share August 30, 2015 Anyone else remember this? It pops into my head when I hear "Zoo" /showing my age https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwJQ6G7Z_II Link to comment
BigBlueMastiff September 22, 2015 Share September 22, 2015 Well, I finished reading/listening to "Zoo". It was terrible. I know that James Patterson's empire almost certainly extends to putting his name as a co-author on books written by other people, I can only imagine he had nothing to do with this book, and that it was all the product of the other guy. The "Zoo" show was right to not have anything to do with this book. The only thing they have in common are that there is a character named Jackson Oz (who in the book, is the "crazy" one trying to warn the world of issues with animals, a role that was given to his dead father) and a character named Chloe Tousignant. Nothing else is the same. No Reiden Global, no Abraham Kenyatta, no sinister villain, no Mother Cell. The book is horribly written, and above all, it is, quite simply, utterly boring. There's not many animal attacks. There's way more bureaucratic and political squabbling which is thoroughly uninteresting. There's this strange jump forward in time by five years, the purpose of which I didn't fully understand. Above all, the discovery that the aberrant behaviour is caused bywas a joke, and the ending of was completely unsatisfying. Also, while there are no Antarctic Lesbians, the book does feature African Lesbians! They are gorilla researchers living in Rwanda. Ha ha ha, completely agree with blackwing. I picked this up on a recommendation from io9, and could not get halfway through. The book is truly awful and horribly written. the only thing I wanted to see was Oz's chimp doing some major damage, and he doesn't exist in the tv adaptation, boo. Link to comment
shapeshifter August 20, 2016 Share August 20, 2016 On NPR this morning I heard an interview with with author Bill Broun about his debut novel, Night of the Animals http://www.npr.org/2016/08/20/490513406/in-the-midst-of-future-calamity-a-different-kind-of-ark-the-london-zoo During the interview it was revealed that animals were dying out except at the zoo, which sounded like it might be similar to the show Zoo. Link to comment
shapeshifter September 18, 2016 Share September 18, 2016 Russian weathermen under siege for weeks by Arctic polar bears: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/14/russian-scientists-trapped-arctic-polar-bears-month-wait-rescue 2 Link to comment
ottoDbusdriver September 18, 2016 Share September 18, 2016 3 hours ago, shapeshifter said: Russian weathermen under siege for weeks by Arctic polar bears: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/14/russian-scientists-trapped-arctic-polar-bears-month-wait-rescue I remember seeing that the other day and immediately wondered if the polar bears had developed the defiant pupil -- and exoskeletons. 1 Link to comment
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