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Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
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Bill Irwin
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Christopher Moore
Marine biologist Nate Quinn is in love with the majestic ocean-dwelling behemoths who have been singing their haunting song for twenty million years. But why do the humpback whales sing? That's the question that has Nate and his crew filming, charting, and recording every whale that crosses their path. Until one day when a whale lifts its tail to display a message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite Me....
No one has ever seen such a thing; not Nate's longtime partner, not world-renowned photographer Clay Demodocus, not their saucy young research assistant, Amy, not even spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman, Kona. And when the film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot--and their research facility is trashed--Nate realizes that something very fishy is going on.
It only gets weirder when a call comes in from Nate's big-bucks benefactor, saying that a whale has phoned her, asking for a hot pastrami and Swiss on rye. Suddenly the answer to the question that has driven Nate throughout his adult life is within reach. And it's not what anyone would think.
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"If it's going to go on like that for the rest of the book, it's not going to be that entertaining."
I've gotten a scientific story book about dolphins when I was a teenager once and it wasn't really catching my attention much so far.
But this story came with giant positive surprise...which the first part of the book only gives a small glimpse at subtly, but as it "flows" on, it builds the foundation of the really awesome (scientific) fiction story, that follows in its wake.
I highly recommend it - together with saving whales by watching them instead of eating them and listening to their sounds during the reading breaks of the book...it's really something.
And I was positively "wow-ed", surprised and inspired to giggles and laughter at quite a few parts.
Not as breath-takingly as with the author's book "The Lamb", but in a more gentle and still subtly smart way.
I especially like the educational parts in the fiction, which is also pointed out again in a comment at the end of the book.
All in all: fascinating.
And: patience comes with rewards in this book since the slow and seemingly (and only that!) long-winded start paints the surface of the context and its characters calmly, but with slight hints on what's to come. But I never expected this kind of story to unfold as it did in the following parts.
So, I love stories, that aren't predictable like this one...and still plausible fiction, mixed with enough scientific facts, that makes it even more exciting - as entertainment combined with learning is still the best way to learn, i.m.h.o.
Others might differ, but my imagination was loving this journey a lot and I thank the author for his story and the reader to present it the way he did. I might probably be more excited reading it, but the calm attitude fits the characters and also changes in the later parts enough to feel the excitement there.
The story would probably make an interesting movie, too. I'd watch it. 😉
Unexpected Developments straight ahead...
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Interesting, well, funny or weird?
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Hiaasen Meets Schätzing or Asimov
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Am schlimsten ist aber der Sprecher. Ohne jegliche Grund startet er viele Sätze sehr laut, dann (auch ohne jegliche Grund) senkt die Stimme bis ganz leise und klingt todmüde.
Langweilige Geschichte und schrecklicher Sprecher
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