Douglas Preston
Paperback | Pages: 480 pages Rating: 4.02 | 89502 Users | 3282 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Relic |
| ISBN: | 0765354942 (ISBN13: 9780765354945) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://us.macmillan.com/relic/DouglasPreston |
| Series: | Pendergast #1 |
| Characters: | Aloysius X.L. Pendergast, Margo Green, William Smithback, Dr. Whitney C. Frock, George Moriarty, Lavinia Rickman, Spencer Coffey, Gregory Kawakita, Vincent D'Agosta |
| Setting: | New York State(United States) New York City, New York(United States) |
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Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human...But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders.
Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who-or what-is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?
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| Title | : | Relic (Pendergast #1) |
| Author | : | Douglas Preston |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 480 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 2005 by Tor Books (first published 1995) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Thriller. Mystery. Fiction. Science Fiction. Mystery Thriller. Suspense |
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Ratings: 4.02 From 89502 Users | 3282 ReviewsDiscuss Regarding Books Relic (Pendergast #1)
This was recommended to me by several visitors to my site, but I'm sorry folks, I simply couldn't finish it. Cardboard, cliched characters and a monster on a rampage in a museum don't quite add up to a great read. I gave it a good effort, the quick readability of it got me halfway through it but I don't care how it ends or who lives or dies. I'm moving on.Every sixty to seventy million years or so, life starts getting very well adapted to its environment. Too well adapted, perhaps. There is a population explosion of the successful life forms. Then, suddenly a new species appears out of the blue. It is almost always a predatory creature, a killing machine. It tears through the host population, killing, feeding, multiplying. Slowly at first, then ever faster. The Amazon has always been an attractive source for exploration for the scientific
Relic is the first book in the Pendergast series co-written by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. I'd heard of the books and knew they were highly recommended, but I never dove into them. Recently, a blogger friend suggested I give the series a chance (thanks Mae), so I ordered Relic from the library and read this 1995 hit. Now I need to watch the movie, although I hear they dropped a key character. What!?! This first book combines a bit of supernatural/evolution with science, thriller and
Hang the f**k on... people have been telling me to read the Pendergast series but NOBODY told me it started with this book-- clearly the basis for one of the most awesome/awful monster films of the 90s!!!! I didn't even know it was a book. I feel tragically misinformed.Come on now, you SHOULD have led with this ... nobody could say no to a monster in a museum.
4.5 I almost want to give this book a five. It kept my attention until I finished it. I had trouble taking breaks from it or setting it down. Its the first of Special Agent Pendergast series and while I wasnt all that impressed with him, I like his manner and cant wait to see what he will do or say in future books. It was an intelligent read steeped in fields of archaeology, anthropology, botany, paleontology and evolution. It was hard to get bored here, especially since it all happened inside
Sometimes I really want a hot dog.I dont care that its filled with crunchy bits of pig hoofs or that its encased in a horses transverse colon or even that it will provide enough sodium to last me for the next 75 years. I just want to bite into that thick, juicy tube o meat and let the uniquely succulent flavor of indulgence course through my veins even as it drips greasy trails of superfluous yumminess down my chin. Thats kind of how I feel about thrillers. I dont read them all the time, but
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