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Wow, this book is so violent. It is definitely not for the tenderhearted. We have homo rectus. We have Homo sapiens. We have homo forensic and we have Australopithecus.
They are all fighting for the same spot in the jungle this one sheltered place with freshwater and natural barriers and it is brutal.

I’m getting more and more involved in the story. The first chapter was a little. I was like I don’t know if this is gonna be for me, but as I read on, I’m being drawn into the story, wondering how it’s gonna go. You do have to have some kind of knowledge of the various hominids that have existed to kind of get an idea of what’s going on here.

Not really impressed or enjoying this one much...

Really interested in this one but I can already tell there's bits of the style that are going to bother me the entire time. But we shall see 🙂‍↕️.

King Kong Meets Marquis de Sade!

Dungfly is objectively a good name for a character.

The alternating narrators, one of whom is in peril and the other a villain carrying out a plot, makes this story resemble Tarzan even more closely.

The underlying logic of this book, organizing narrators by their intellectual and evolutionary abilities, is ambitious and satisfying, but Nicholas does seem to get mixed up with language he doesn't fully command: food doesn't masticate, it is masticated.

Have to admit, pretty fun. Burroughs-esque.