When I read a book, the first thing I do is analyze how bored I would be and how fast I would fall asleep (that's just me). But with this book, however, it kept me fully interested. His language seems like he's casually talking to his audience which opens the environment for his audience to be relaxed, rather than some formal book with thousands of facts thrown at you. I also like his once-in-a-while humorous statements that keeps me reading. I also enjoyed his pictures as well, which helps me visualize the descriptions and experiences.
I also liked how he shared his experience digging up fossils, rather just explaining to us how fossils work... I was able to see how difficult and expensive it was do perform those expeditions, like "finding the proverbial needle in the haystack" and the rocks he needs to put on his tent to survive the winds, instead of learning that the older rock is on the bottom layers while the younger rock is on the upper ones... that's fun too.
As I've mentioned before, his style helps me become engaged into his story, so it was pretty suspenseful when one of his members was gone for awhile and they were about to hold a search party and exciting when they discovered Tiktaalik before they were about to call it quits. Serendipity? I think not.
And... I thought it was pretty cool to read about a fossil, whether or not it would be a "fish" or an "alligator" and which organism should it be... since I've only knew what "Lucy" was and not this beast from the marine to land transition, with that chart that showed it's similarities to dogs to us.
So my first impressions of this book? It's neat, in that I'm already enjoying this book and looking forward to what else it has to offer.
- Keith Choison
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