Audiobook (abridged)2 hours
Raptor Red
Written by Robert T. Bakker
Narrated by Megan Gallagher
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
A stunning debut in the blockbuster tradition of Jurassic Park -- enhanced with dramatic sound effects.
A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the undergrowth of conifers. The eyes follow every movement in the great herd of plant-eating dinosaurs that mills around the open meadows, moving back and forth with the rapid scanning of a hunter who is thinking about everything she sees. She is an intelligent killer...
The time -- 120 million years ago. The place -- the plains of prehistoric Utah. The eyes belong to one of the most unforgettable heroines you will ever meet. Her name -- Raptor Red.
Raptor Red is a female raptor dinosaur, struggling to survive on her own after losing her mate. Painting a rich and colorful picture of a lush prehistoric world, leading paleontologist Robert T. Bakker tells the story from within Raptor Red's extraordinary mind, dramatizing his groundbreaking theories in an exciting, one-of-a-kind tale. With keen insight and stunning authenticity, he tracks the raptor on her yearlong odyssey of survival as she braves a devastating storm, migrates toward the ocean to escape powerful predators, and heads north in a desperate attempt to escape the threat of deadly acrocanthosaurs, all while carrying out her natural duty to search for a new mate.
From its tragic opening to its thrilling climax on a snowy mountaintop, Raptor Red is a unique and utterly compelling look at a year in the life of a dinosaur -- a revolutionary work of fiction.
A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the undergrowth of conifers. The eyes follow every movement in the great herd of plant-eating dinosaurs that mills around the open meadows, moving back and forth with the rapid scanning of a hunter who is thinking about everything she sees. She is an intelligent killer...
The time -- 120 million years ago. The place -- the plains of prehistoric Utah. The eyes belong to one of the most unforgettable heroines you will ever meet. Her name -- Raptor Red.
Raptor Red is a female raptor dinosaur, struggling to survive on her own after losing her mate. Painting a rich and colorful picture of a lush prehistoric world, leading paleontologist Robert T. Bakker tells the story from within Raptor Red's extraordinary mind, dramatizing his groundbreaking theories in an exciting, one-of-a-kind tale. With keen insight and stunning authenticity, he tracks the raptor on her yearlong odyssey of survival as she braves a devastating storm, migrates toward the ocean to escape powerful predators, and heads north in a desperate attempt to escape the threat of deadly acrocanthosaurs, all while carrying out her natural duty to search for a new mate.
From its tragic opening to its thrilling climax on a snowy mountaintop, Raptor Red is a unique and utterly compelling look at a year in the life of a dinosaur -- a revolutionary work of fiction.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Absolutely wonderful ☺️? brought me right back to reading it in 9th grade, Utahraptors will always hold a special place in my heart ?? #once a dinosaur kid #always a dinosaur kid
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I was in love with this book from the very beginning, and I'm delving in for an immediate reread once I've passed my copy along and forced it onto all of my friends. It was funny and well-written, and the elements of humor and humanity weren't excessive - nor did they distract me or draw me out of the story. Raptor Red is definitely a new favorite, and I will now spend the rest of my life hunting for another dino-POV novel since I now have a hunger for more. I loved it so much I mailed it to a friend of mine that lives in another state just so she could read it!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I like it it's features the main protagonists raptor read it was like Jurassic Park well the novel.Jurassic Park
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Fun short read. A story of love, family, and survival told from a dino's point of view. A little dated, and a bit more lecture like than I expected, but pretty good.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5While this is a romanticized portrait of "Raptor Red" and her family and mates, it nonetheless accomplishes everything that a solid, great novel should. I was astounded with the depth and accuracy that you are able to experience the novel with once you give some credence and credibility (as well as creative license) to the author. This is really a fine book and one that should be remembered.4.5 stars- VERY well done.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5With Raptor Red, Robert Bakker gives us a glimpse at a long distant past through the eyes of a creature unlike any other. We follow Raptor Red, a young female utahraptor who has just lost her mate. Desperate for company, and the possibility of a new mate, Raptor Red searches for others of her kind. In a stroke of rapturine luck, she stumbles upon her sister, who has also lost a mate. Red’s sister has three chicks she is raising alone, so Red joins her to help care for them. The next year will find the raptor family, along with other raptor packs, moving farther and farther west, escaping from encroachment by acrocanthosaurs. A potential mate joins the small group, but he's eventually driven off by Red’s sister, who doesn't approve of a foreign male near her chicks. He's too much of a danger. Even though it's Red and not her sister that he's interested in, there's still the possibility that he could turn on the chicks because they aren't his. The loss of two pack members make finding a partner priority for Red. They need hunting help. Year's end finds the pack increased significantly, with lifemate pairs, and new chicks. They've entered a land where, for now, there is an abundance of food. Told entirely from the view of these sentient yet vastly different beings, Raptor Red breathes life and vibrancy into dusty bones of the ancient past. Much, by necessity, is speculation. There's plenty of evidence to suggest that raptors could have, and likely would have, behaved in such ways. These were the beasties that our birds eventually descended from, after all. There's a reason why they share the same appellation as our modern birds of prey. Occasionally, the author delved into the minds of other species. I enjoyed seeing the thought processes of these other beasts, such as astrodon, and gastonia, a brontosaurid, and ankylosaurid respectively. Oh, and the Trinity turtle! It was cute to see how the curious raptors interacted with the environment. Red investigates the turtle, turning the closed shell into a toy before finally leaving the placid, patient creature to her business. She and her family play with a small troop of troodon in the snow. Other critters were quite smart in their own way, too. The big, white-winged pterosaur that worked with the raptors, like wolves and ravens, scouting potential prey and leading the pack to it. This is the perfect read for anyone interested in dinosaurs, or who enjoys animal-centric stories.***This book was purchased for my own pleasure, with no expectation of a review.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pretty neat book. At first I thought the portrayal of the dinosaurs' intelligence was too anthropormophic, but then I thought about how smart cats, dogs, magpies, dolphins, ravens etc. are. I believe Bakker's ideas have merit. And the raptors' adventures were pretty exciting, too.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Quite enjoyable. The author (a paleontologist) did a very good job of drawing me in and making me actually care about the Utahraptor main characters. There was humour, suspense, and...for lack of a better term, heartwarming ones.It brings up that the species has a large brain, and that large brained carnivores are the ones which exhibit things like curiosity and playfulness.I also like that Professor Bakker did not anthropomorphize the raptors too much (or at least justified it based on the current research)--there were no words, just loose translations of thoughts.If you like dinosaurs, Read it!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A novel about a year in the life of a Utahraptor as she and her family travel around what will later be the western United States.
Very readable, and the author's speculations about dinosaur life felt plausible (at least to this lay reader who didn't have much of a dinosaur phase as a kid), though I'm curious as to whether there's been anything in the last twenty years that'd change some of the author's interpretations. I had a few character/situation quibbles (I'm not sure whether it's ever mentioned what happened to the sister's mate, for example; while the sister wouldn't be able to communicate this, the narrator certainly pops in and comments on occasion), but nothing that kicked me out of the book. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I saw this book mentioned somewhere recently and it piqued my interest. Paleontologist Robert Bakker was noted in the 80's for his revolutionary theories on dinosaurs popularized in his non-fiction book The Dinosaur Heresies. He wrote a few children's books and one fiction novel for older (adult) readers and this is it. It is certainly something different. It is a story of one year in the life of a female Utahraptor; he names her "Raptor Red". This book essentially brings Bakker's theories to life.Bakker includes a preface and epilogue to supplement his story. I'll quote Bakker from his introductory pages to the novel to best explain:"We can learn from Utahraptor's story. Hers was a beautifully alert and sentient species. By looking through her eyes we can see the evolutionary forces that were changing the natural world during the Early Cretaceous. Our own human ancestors were being created by the invisible hand of natural selection, as were the beginnings of the other animals and plants that enjoy supremacy in today's world. Utahraptor's story is part of our story.The story begins with an invasion, an ambush, and a death.----------The time is a hundred and twenty million years ago. On the flat, featureless floodplains that were central Utah, an evolutionary event is about to occur that will shock the ecological community of dinosaurs. The event is the arrival of a new superpredator."Although intrigued, I wasn't excited about this book like I might have been if I was 10 or 11 years old. I did enjoy it but I felt like I was watching a documentary reenactment of some sort much of the time. I could even hear Rex Allen inside my head doing the narration. It kept my interest throughout and I did learn some things. I think a novel like this would be most enjoyed by middle school students. Throughout the novel I felt I was being taught to, but I give it credit for teaching in a way that mostly avoided dry details. Towards the latter part of the book the didactic tone lessens considerably and the story picked up and I liked it more and more. I can also understand a bit better the fun that being a dinosaur fossil hunter could bring.This novel falls into the lower end of what I consider a good read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Enjoyed it. Hard to put down.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So amazing and cute! Good book for dinosaur lovers of all ages!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A wonderfully imaginative and unique work -- Bakker makes his characters vivid, interesting, and empathetic, without needing to anthropomorphise them -- truly an achievement. Recommended to all paleontology fans.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is not your average dinosaur tale; for starters, it's told from the raptor's point of view. It's imaginative, adventurous, and completely fascinating. You've never felt such a kinship with a bloodthirsty predator, and you'll never look at Jurassic Park the same way again!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An off-beat novella I found entertaining. The author is known for his consulting work for the Jurassic Park movies and as founder and principle advocate of the theory that some of the dinosaurs were warm-blooded and socially advanced. The protagonist of this novel is a Utahraptor named Raptor Red. Throughout her story, Bakker introduces the reader to a variety of creatures from that time and explores most of the current theories about how the dinosaurs evolved, lived, and migrated. It's an interesting and entertaining book.