Fragment
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In this powerhouse of suspense--as brilliantly imagined as Jurassic Park and The Ruins--scientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike any they've seen before . . . an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards. The time is now. The place is the Trident, a long-range research vessel hired by the reality TV show Sealife. Aboard is a cast of ambitious young scientists. With a director dying for drama, tiny Henders Island might be just what the show needs. Until the first scientist sets foot on Henders--and the ultimate test of survival begins . . .For when they reach the island's shores, scientists are utterly unprepared for what they find--creatures unlike any ever recorded in natural history. This is not a lost world frozen in time, an island of mutants, or a lab where science has gone mad: this is the Earth as it might have looked after evolving on a separate path for half a billion years.Soon the scientists will stumble on something more shocking than anything humanity has ever encountered: because among the terrors of Henders Island, one life form defies any scientific theory--and must be saved at any cost.From the Hardcover edition.
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Fragment is a 1-book series first released in 2009 with contributions by Warren Fahy.
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Now here's a story that's seemingly modeled after some of Michael Crichton's fast tales. The Trident is a large ship chartered with carrying an attractive crew being filmed for a reality TV show called SeaLife. In a remote section of the Southern Pacific Ocean they come across tiny Henders Island. Soon after a landing party manages to gain access to the island, most of them end up being eaten by beasties never before seen on Earth. Good start! And then half-way in, things pick up and the pages fly by. I think some other blurb said it first, but Fragment is like a combination of The Ruins and Jurassic Park. A fast, diverting story with really nasty fauna.
Solitamente mi sforzo di essere sempre accurato nelle mie recensioni ai libri che leggo, mi piace essere d'aiuto a chi vuole farsi un'idea del libro.
Questa volta però lo SFORZO di arrivare alla fine di questo guazzabuglio orrendo, pieno delle più pessime trovate da B-Movie di pseudo-fantascienza (senza offendere la pseudo-fantascienza), mi è costato troppo e proprio non ce la faccio a scrivere alcunché, mi dispiace.
Credo di aver mollato il colpo con l'entrata in gioco dell'essere cuccioloso dai colori sgargianti. Posso cercare però di ipotizzare tre casistiche per chi ha dato tre/quattro stelle a questo libro:
1. E' il primo libro che abbia mai letto e il fatto di vedersi materializzare delle parole su un foglio di carta ha inebriato così tanto i suoi sensi da votare così.
2. Non ha mai letto un libro di avventure. Qualsiasi libro di avventure, ci metto dentro anche gli Harmony a sfondo storico/avventuroso.
3. E' l'autore stesso (creando falsi account virtuali), o suoi amici o parenti, che hanno votato.
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