What are you reading the week of February 19, 2012?

[skippercollector]

9. The Dinosaur Hunter

The Dinosaur Hunter is Homer Hickam's newest novel, published in 2010 and released in trade paperback at the end of January 2012. It's set on a Montana cattle ranch, but isn't about cows, except for a few that were viciously killed. Unlike Hickam's other novels, this is his first murder mystery.
I didn't care for it. The writing is choppy and the attempts at humor didn't always work. It starts out benignly and actually educational, telling you about the different types of dinosaur bones and how they came to be buried in layers of rock. I LOVE Hickam's biographical novels (Rocket Boys et al) and some, but not all, of his historical novels. Like some of his historical novels, Dinosaur gets suddenly very violent towards the end, a completely different tone from the rest of the novel.