Creature From The Black Lagoon: Time's Black Lagoon (Universal Monsters (Dh Press))
by Paul Di Filippo
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Author: Paul Di FilippoEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-20
ISBN: 1595820337
Number of pages: 276
Publisher: Dark Horse
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Book Review: Pretty damn slow, has enough to sustain the length, but only barely
Summary: 3 Stars
I only bought this book because I was in a book-buying mood and the one I wanted was sold out. Thinking that it had a nice cover and being in the mood for something silly and pulpy, I decided to give it a go. A boy this IS pulp indeed.
The story has two friends in the Deep South grow up to be megalo-scientists. One a marine biologist and the other a professor of Quantum Physics, or something. Wishing to capturing to capture a Gill Man and knowing that they only existed in great numbers in the pre-dinosaur days, our heroes make a time machine out of an I-Pod (yes, you read me correctly-a friggin' I-Pod) and go back millions of years to say 'How' to a peaceful race of Gill Men.
Up until about halfway, this book is just nothing but hot air and almost ends up being the kind you'll chuck away without finishing. But finally, when they do travel through time, it gets much better and passes much quicker. The Gill Men are great characters and lots of fun to read about. It kinda outstays its welcome towards the end though as plot threads are tied together in a rather contrived and hasty manner. I didn't like that.
A fun read, but don't expect William Shakespeare. His retarded hillbilly cousin Ralph Shakespeare could write a better story than this.
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