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Summary: I shoudn't have read "Neanderthal" right before this one.
Review: For the first 180 pages, I couldn't put it down. Then it just got to dragging along. I read John Darnton's "Neanderthal" (a great read by the way), right before this one and after a while, I felt like I was reading it again. If I'd of continued on with it, perhaps I'd of liked it a little better, but I doubt it. It just couldn't hold my interest.
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Summary: Two-thirds of a good book
Review: For the first two-thirds, I thought someone had actually written a good book on the yeti: well-paced, intriguing, and making good use of the sparse data available to create a believable picture of this alleged mystery animal. Then it fell apart with two unbelievable events in a row. First, there was the local holy man talking to the yeti and having it follow his orders. There's no evidence that the yeti could be smart enough to follow complex directions, and certainly no reason it would want to. The other howler is the parallel search for a downed satellite. When a satellite re-enters, you do not get a nearly-complete pile of wreckage: you get some bits of burned metal maybe the size of cornflakes. I was genuinely saddened to have a promising book come to such a ridiculous end.
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Summary: Too commercial for the brilliant author of Berlin Noir.
Review: Garbled science and pretension dominate this would-be thriller. Readers are asked to accept hard science and sloppy mysticism - molecular biology AND a naked holy man who happily survives 30 below. There are giant holes in the plot probably originating with the big publisher editor - driving for length, a sort of lowest thriller denominator, and for a publishing date. If it were not for A Psychological Investigation, I would give up on Kerr - but that, and Berlin Noir, give promise and hope for the author where Esau fails.
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Summary: Far better than Darton's Neanderthal
Review: Great writers, like great movies, have my ocasional permission to recur to cheap thrills. Philip Kerr is such a writer. If you're interested in a flowing, imaginative, superbly researched, Indiana Jones like adventure, you've found heaven. Skip John Darton's boring Neanderthal and come where adventure (and the real Yeti) really is. Esau is his name.
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Summary: Exciting premise falls to a poor ending
Review: I enjoy books by James Rollins, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, and other adventure writers. So I decided to pick up Esau from the bargain bin and give it a try.I was surprised, Mr. Kerr was able to create an adventure that made me keep turning the pages to see what would happen next. There were a couple of different story lines here, and they were all very interesting. Most of this book is far fetched, so be prepared to leave reality at the door. The characters were interesting, and they made you want to find out what would happen to them. I thought that Kerr was good at creating a realistic scene in his writing and really seemed to have a great deal of knowledge about climbing. I would recommend this book to all fans of Rollins, or Preston + Child. Good read that kept me interested.
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Summary: Good read, interesting mix of politics, science + adventure
Review: I enjoy books by James Rollins, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, and other adventure writers. So I decided to pick up Esau from the bargain bin and give it a try. I was surprised, Mr. Kerr was able to create an adventure that made me keep turning the pages to see what would happen next. There were a couple of different story lines here, and they were all very interesting. Most of this book is far fetched, so be prepared to leave reality at the door. The characters were interesting, and they made you want to find out what would happen to them. I thought that Kerr was good at creating a realistic scene in his writing and really seemed to have a great deal of knowledge about climbing. I would recommend this book to all fans of Rollins, or Preston + Child. Good read that kept me interested.
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Summary: A "Living Fossil" Saga worthy of Neanderthal & Almost Adam!
Review: I enjoyed reading Neanderthal (John Darnton) and Almost Adam (Petru Popescu), and I was just as pleased with Philip Kerr's ESAU. An expedition to find and capture a Yeti makes for a great plot. The scientists in ESAU were plagued with the same enigmatic problem as were the scientists in Neanderthal and Almost Adam, NOW THAT WE FOUND THEM, WHAT DO WE DO WITH THEM? Report the findings to National Geographic or keep their existence a secret and let them live in peace? The ending was a bit hokey and predictable, but other than that, ESAU is a great read!
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Summary: Captivating
Review: I love the stories behind the Yeti more than Bigfoot because there seems to be a greater possibility that this human exists. Kerr brings this possibility closer to reality. A thrilling adventure into the highest mountain range in the world.
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Summary: Better to read the book yourself.
Review: I may have enjoyed the story if it had not been dramatised in such an extreme fashion. Should the words themselves not create excitement, drama etc.? Well with this audio rendition I will never know.
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Summary: A great book
Review: I personally found this book to be a wonderful read and would encourage others to read it. I myself have read it four times, and would enjoy a movie version.
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