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Title: Jennie by Douglas Preston ISBN: 0-8125-6533-9 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great story w/ intruiging Scientific/Philosophical Questions
Comment: Preston uses the points of view of several different characters through their journals or scientific writings to give an account of the story of Jennie, a chimpanzee taken into captivity by an American scientist. Through these varied perspectives and with a touching story, Preston raises all sorts of questions about what sets humans apart from animals, where God fits into the natural world, etc...there's all sorts of fuel for thought. Excellently written, thoroughly researched, and an all out great book. I'm a more complex thinker for having read it, and I've recommended it to many of my professors and friends.
Rating: 5
Summary: Strangely disturbing, yet appealing.
Comment: I picked up this book because I had read another of Douglas Preston's books,"Relic" (of which he was co-author). "Relic" was a typical horror book--fun, a quick read, without much depth. Definitely a "B-movie" of a book, with the signs of "make a quick buck" all over it. I was expecting "Jennie" to be similar. What a surprise. "Jennie" is a completely different type of book. Sweet, sad, haunting. From the beginning of the book, the foreshadowing strongly warns you that there will not be a happy ending. Through even the fun, joyous scenes, that shadow is hovering, making the joy poignant. I don't want to be too heavy handed here, but this story has elements of a Greek tragedy. The inevitability of the ending gives this story a sad, yet haunting appeal. And, the book raises some disturbing issues about our society, news media, celebrity, and how we think of animals. More depth than I expected!
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful Fiction!
Comment: I will admit up front that I am a sucker for a chimp story. I think it's due in part to an overdose of "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" and re-runs of Daktari at a very tender age. But this IS an excellent novel. Preston is one half of the team that wrote "The Relic" and several other great thrillers. this is much more gentle fiction than any of those. It is character and issue driven realistic fiction. Jennie is a chimp who is raised as a human child. The story is told as if it were a true history and the viewpoint is split. There are interviews (using sign language) with Jennie, exerpts from her "father's" book, newspaper articles, and other interviews. The story's flow is surprisingly smooth for all that. At turns funny and heart-breaking, Jennie won't leave you along once you pick this novel up. It's short, but block off some time...it's a page turner. And the denouement, while not surprising (what always happens when the wild enters surburbia?) is all the sadder for its inevitableness.
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Title: Death Match : A Novel (Child, Lincoln) by LINCOLN CHILD ISBN: 0385506708 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Codex by Douglas J. Preston ISBN: 0765307006 Publisher: Forge Books Pub. Date: 08 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Utopia by LINCOLN CHILD ISBN: 0345455207 Publisher: Fawcett Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Mount Dragon: A Novel by Douglas Preston ISBN: 0812564375 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Brimstone by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child ISBN: 044653143X Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 03 August, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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