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Bestiary Mountain
Four teenagers from the moon must overpower a hierarchy of human-animal hybrids to find a geneticist on Old Earth, where genetic war has been waged.
- GenresScience Fiction
160 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1985
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John Forrester
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May 19, 2015
In the Bestiary Mountain, written by John Forrester, their were things that I looked forward to hopefully reading about, sadly, only a few of these things came into the story. In my opinion, John Forrester didn’t put much work into this book. As I was reading, it seemed to quickly come to an end. Their were many details he could’ve put into the story to make it flow at a more comfortable pace.
The novel did reach my expectations in a few categories. Since it is placed in the future, I expected lots of futuristic aspects in it, such as flying spaceships. John Forrester did a good job at keeping me interested with the new inventions and discoveries. If this expectation wasn’t reached, I probably wouldn’t have finished the book.
With the moon-base theme, it gave me lots of questions to ask. It talks about the comparison of moon-gravity being significantly less than earth-gravity. The question comes to mind is how much higher do you jump, or does it affect our body's any differently such as height or weight? I’m sure I could figure this out by looking it up on the internet but I would’ve rather read it in the book.
A thing I also found to be interesting in this book, which I have never read about anywhere else, is genetic mutations. Their are so many possibilities with this futuristic invention. You can take the DNA from other animals that are immune to certain diseases, such as cancer since it is one of the leading deaths in humans, and put it into our human DNA, so we can no longer suffer from these diseases. This can also become a bad invention though. It can be used for evil purposes, such as giving an animal an understanding to our voice so they listen and do whatever you say. Reading this story will show you some of the genetic mutation possibilities.
The part that bothered me the most about this book though, was the lack of describing the characters. I always would find myself thinking one person is the son/daughter to the father of the story, but it ended up being another person. Always making second guesses on the characters gets really confusing. If I were to read this novel again, I would write down the names of all the characters as they are introduced and give them a brief description. It would've made understanding the story a lot easier.
The theme of the story is never look back, only move forward. I would explain how this theme comes from the book but it would give away spoilers. If you’re looking to read this book for the futuristic/sci-fi feeling, I would recommend it. If you’re looking for a very detailed/mysterious novel, I wouldn't recommend it.
The novel did reach my expectations in a few categories. Since it is placed in the future, I expected lots of futuristic aspects in it, such as flying spaceships. John Forrester did a good job at keeping me interested with the new inventions and discoveries. If this expectation wasn’t reached, I probably wouldn’t have finished the book.
With the moon-base theme, it gave me lots of questions to ask. It talks about the comparison of moon-gravity being significantly less than earth-gravity. The question comes to mind is how much higher do you jump, or does it affect our body's any differently such as height or weight? I’m sure I could figure this out by looking it up on the internet but I would’ve rather read it in the book.
A thing I also found to be interesting in this book, which I have never read about anywhere else, is genetic mutations. Their are so many possibilities with this futuristic invention. You can take the DNA from other animals that are immune to certain diseases, such as cancer since it is one of the leading deaths in humans, and put it into our human DNA, so we can no longer suffer from these diseases. This can also become a bad invention though. It can be used for evil purposes, such as giving an animal an understanding to our voice so they listen and do whatever you say. Reading this story will show you some of the genetic mutation possibilities.
The part that bothered me the most about this book though, was the lack of describing the characters. I always would find myself thinking one person is the son/daughter to the father of the story, but it ended up being another person. Always making second guesses on the characters gets really confusing. If I were to read this novel again, I would write down the names of all the characters as they are introduced and give them a brief description. It would've made understanding the story a lot easier.
The theme of the story is never look back, only move forward. I would explain how this theme comes from the book but it would give away spoilers. If you’re looking to read this book for the futuristic/sci-fi feeling, I would recommend it. If you’re looking for a very detailed/mysterious novel, I wouldn't recommend it.
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