Ninett
I thought a book about dinosaurs from the Victorian age would be right up my alley—and for the most part, it would have been, if not for the gross racism and sexism, which tainted the whole thing for me. I was also chilled by the way the characters treated a supposedly pristine, untampered-with biological system they had discovered: killing things, trampling over everything, causing the extinction of an intelligent species (!!!), and stealing baby animals from their parents. I dunno, just not for me. I'm just not the type who can enjoy this mindset, even as fiction. I like dinosaurs, but this was too much of a bravado story from the peak of the 'man dominates world' epoch.
I thought a book about dinosaurs from the Victorian age would be right up my alley—and for the most part, it would have been, if not for the gross racism and sexism, which tainted the whole thing for me. I was also chilled by the way the characters treated a supposedly pristine, untampered-with biological system they had discovered: killing things, trampling over everything, causing the extinction of an intelligent species (!!!), and stealing baby animals from their parents. I dunno, just not for me. I'm just not the type who can enjoy this mindset, even as fiction. I like dinosaurs, but this was too much of a bravado story from the peak of the 'man dominates world' epoch.