Hiaasen Meets Schätzing or Asimov

A bit different from his normal style, but I liked it even better. I got the feeling of Carl Hiaasen's weird humor and Schätzing's The Swarm's idealism but reduced to Moore's somewhat simpler and cruder humoristic style. And it was a lot shorter than The Swarm :-)

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Interesting, well, funny or weird?

I didn't know what I would get into when I started. Expecting something funny or weird, from all what I've read so far by Moore. Yet, the book starts pretty 'normal' in the beginning, with Moore's typical humour, not knowing at all where this would lead to, almost a bit boring. But then it gets somewhere totally different. What a fantasy this man has. The second half of the book totally got me. Great listening!

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2 Leute fanden das hilfreich

Unexpected Developments straight ahead...

In the first part of the book, I thought:
"If it's going to go on like that for the rest of the book, it's not going to be that entertaining."

I've gotten a scientific story book about dolphins when I was a teenager once and it wasn't really catching my attention much so far.

But this story came with giant positive surprise...which the first part of the book only gives a small glimpse at subtly, but as it "flows" on, it builds the foundation of the really awesome (scientific) fiction story, that follows in its wake.

I highly recommend it - together with saving whales by watching them instead of eating them and listening to their sounds during the reading breaks of the book...it's really something.
And I was positively "wow-ed", surprised and inspired to giggles and laughter at quite a few parts.
Not as breath-takingly as with the author's book "The Lamb", but in a more gentle and still subtly smart way.

I especially like the educational parts in the fiction, which is also pointed out again in a comment at the end of the book.

All in all: fascinating.
And: patience comes with rewards in this book since the slow and seemingly (and only that!) long-winded start paints the surface of the context and its characters calmly, but with slight hints on what's to come. But I never expected this kind of story to unfold as it did in the following parts.
So, I love stories, that aren't predictable like this one...and still plausible fiction, mixed with enough scientific facts, that makes it even more exciting - as entertainment combined with learning is still the best way to learn, i.m.h.o.

Others might differ, but my imagination was loving this journey a lot and I thank the author for his story and the reader to present it the way he did. I might probably be more excited reading it, but the calm attitude fits the characters and also changes in the later parts enough to feel the excitement there.

The story would probably make an interesting movie, too. I'd watch it. 😉

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Horrible pronounciation

The reader who would be otherwise great pronouncea every wh as hw and it is sooo anoying that i retourn this book about hwales.

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Langweilige Geschichte und schrecklicher Sprecher

So eine langweilige Geschichte habe ich von Moore nicht erwartet.
Am schlimsten ist aber der Sprecher. Ohne jegliche Grund startet er viele Sätze sehr laut, dann (auch ohne jegliche Grund) senkt die Stimme bis ganz leise und klingt todmüde.

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