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Bred Any Good Rooks Lately?

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  • KurbenKurben
    After the Dinosaurs by Donald Prothero. There has been so many oversight books on the Dinos but this is a rather recent book on the age of mammals. How they evolved from the tiny creatures that were mammals during the dinos reign and spent a lot of time hiding. The truly bizarre creatures that evolved in natures test room during the first 10 million years (the Paleocene) before the mammal families we know today started to take form. Primates is an exception, they actually existed before the extinction but looked more like a treeliving rodent (think small squirrel) and probably filled a similar ecological niche as the rodents would fill much later when they evolved. These Mammals were not big, the biggest predator perhaps the size of a dog but the top predators were still dinosaurs, the bird kind. Diatryma was a little over 2 meter high and built like an ostrich but much more muscle and bitepower. Its an interesting story and Prothero tells it well.
    GNTLGNTHedda GablerFlakeNoir
  • GNTLGNTGNTLGNT
    ....then it's one them damn dinosaur squirrels that's wiping out my birdfeeder every day!!!.....
    KurbenHedda GablerFlakeNoir
  • KurbenKurben
    Read The Judas Window by Carter Dickson (pseudonym for John Dickson Carr) again. It must be one of the best locked room mysteries ever written. Faultlessly composed. Carr specialized in locked room mysteries. Most of them were very good and the best of them has not been surpassed. The Hollow Man and The Burning Court are other highlights in his production. He ought, i think, to get more regocnition as a master of his craft than he does.
    Hedda GablerGNTLGNTFlakeNoir
  • Hedda GablerHedda Gabler
    I love lock room stories. I think we’ve talked about him before, I need to find these books. 
    GNTLGNTKurbenFlakeNoir
  • GNTLGNTGNTLGNT
    Hedda Gabler said:
    I love lock room stories. I think we’ve talked about him before, I need to find these books. 
    ....Jesus, for a second I thought you said "lockeroom stories"....my eyesight and brain just shat themselves.....
    KurbenHedda GablerFlakeNoir
  • Hedda GablerHedda Gabler
    Hmmm. I’d read those too for research purposes. 
    GNTLGNTKurbenFlakeNoir
  • GNTLGNTGNTLGNT
    ...."research".....

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    KurbenHedda GablerFlakeNoir
  • KurbenKurben
    reading A New Lease Of Death by Ruth Rendell. Really good. Written in the time (late 60,s) when mysteries still were about 200 pages and still managed to get characters, athmosphere, plot and tension in there. A forgotten art nowadays. I kinda miss it. I'm not sure when that started to change.... I know that Rendell in her later books or latest is perhaps more fair had begun to show signs of the sickness so perhaps somewhere in the 80,s? Or even later? How some books that are published now even passes an editors desk is beyond me.
    Hedda GablerGNTLGNTFlakeNoir
  • Hedda GablerHedda Gabler
    Okay Bev Vincent, I got The Lost Bookshop. I hope it’s good. 
    GNTLGNTKurbenFlakeNoir
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