Eaters of the Dead
by Michael Crichton
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Author: Michael CrichtonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-04-28
ISBN: 0061782637
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Harper
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Book Review: A Fabulous Premise
Summary: 4 Stars
Michael Crichton has created his best premise ever in this historical novel. The true-to-life manuscript of an Arab traveling to Viking territory a thousand years ago is just the scaffolding. The Arab is a device, showing us through his modern eyes just how strange, and also how compelling, Viking mores were to a civilized European. But that's just the means into the real story.
The payoff is the second half of the story. Crichton imagines the meeting, in fairly recent historical time, between Homo Sapiens and the last enclave of surviving Neaderthals. Anthropologists can't locate any Neanderthal remains later than 22,000 years ago, but it's possible that Neanderthals still lived in remote corners of the world into historical times. What would a meeting between us and them have seemed to us?
Like all of Crichton's books, the premise is better than the execution. But the tale is good enough to win me over completely.
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