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zhelana's review
4.0
Well. I almost put this book down several times and I am so glad I didn't! I mean, it started out painfully slowly and not written for a popular audience (no single opponent, just a generic "opponents" so no personality to these people other than "obstenent"). The premise of the first 150 pages is proving that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, which, honestly, I've known since the mid 80s when I was 5 years old. I kept wondering why they bothered to write this book. Then I hit the last two chapters, and goodness! The surprises started hitting for the last 50 pages of this book and didn't stop. It's not just that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, but asteroids hitting the planet at a predictable rate to within a million years regularly causing mass extinctions. And that has completely revolutionized geology as a field, and is kind of cool.
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