77 pages
Published 2010
Read February 1
Rating: 1.5 out of 5
It's not that I expected this book would be good, per se. But Love in the Time of Dinosaurs is an A+ title, an all-time banger of a thesis statement, and I had hoped, deep down, that maybe this bizarro fiction novella of gun-wielding dinosaurs, the monks who fight them with magic kung-fu, and the forbidden love that blossoms between two of them would at least be a fun time. Alas, the title is the best thing about this book.
In order to do it for me, bizarro fiction needs to have either outstanding prose, staggering creativity, or some other secret ingredient. Love in the Time of Dinosaurs lacks that special sauce. It reads like a transcription of a nine year old smashing their plastic dinosaurs against their action figures, and never gets much deeper than that. The titular love between a monk and a wise Trachodon doesn't really click the way monk-and-dinosaur love should click, you know?
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