Forse 1,5 stelline, arrotondate per difetto.

L'ho trovato estremamente difficile da seguire. Da un lato non conoscevo i due tipi, dall'altro è noto che la sottoscritta ha tantissimi problemi a distinguere un personaggio dall'altro. Quindi, per me, i due erano praticamente intercambiabili. Ho letto ma ho fatto tanta fatica perché mi perdevo spesso tra i vari avvenimenti e i passaggi che non erano menzionati nel testo.

Non so, magari per chi conosce i due soggetti la lettura è più facile. Tutto sommato, la valutazione di questo romanzo grafico è piuttosto buona.

I disegni mi piacciono, soprattutto perché ci sono tanti grigi. E io adoro i grigi.

Vediamo cosa ci riserva l'ultimo volume della collana I grandi della scienza a fumetti.

Magnificent look at the golden age of paleontology. Engaging story, engrossing art. A perfect intro into comics for a dinosaur lover and an intro into the science of dinosaurs for comic lovers.

hard for me to understand bc of all the white men with beards

This book was ok, part fact, part fiction. The cool part is that at the end of the story the reader is told which part is fact and which part is fiction. I wish all books based on real life would do that.

Interesting subject (frauds and feuds among early paleontologists) but the story is hard to follow. I'm not exactly sure what went wrong, but it just didn't work for me. Lovely images, though. Interesting fact: all three of the paleontologists here supported the "dinosaurs are basically birds" idea, but kept that idea mostly quiet because their funders couldn't accept it.

Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh were rival paleontologist during the 1800 Bone Rush. Both men coveted fame, dinosaur bones, and riches. Constantly trying to discredit one another and gain the upper hand both men stepped on, cheated, and destroyed themselves and their reputations all in the name of dinosaurs. This is their story.

I love dinosaurs. I know almost nothing about them. I certainly didn't know about Cope and Marsh during the Bone Rush of the 1800s. I also happen to love the old west. So naturally I couldn't pass up the change to read this graphic novel. It was a little underwhelming to be honest. It's disjointed and bounces around a lot and can be a little hard to follow sometimes. So it might be something you have to ready more than once to fully get everything.

If I hadn't already read Michael Crichton's posthumous Dragon Teeth, which covers the same story, I might have enjoyed Bone Sharps more, but as it is, I was pulled out of the narrative by Ottaviani's flimsy storytelling too much. He clearly has a grasp of his sources and the basic facts, but there's no real sense of why I should care other than Marsh and Cope seemingly as interested in their rivalry as dinosaur fossils, which is itself fascinating history, or that Knight was supposed to be the de facto lead character rather than merely someone who keeps popping up...So I would much more strongly recommend Crichton's book.

I love history comics. I love dinosaurs. I really love dinosaur history comics.

Bravo Mr. Ottaviani! I liked this book and look forward to reading others in the series. Who said science and scientist have to be dry and boring? In fact, and what this book shows, scientists--who oftentimes profess to be rational and factual--can be obsessed and passionate about their ideas/findings. Maybe it is that passion and conviction that enables them to continue their work despite ridicule, adversity etc (hmmm much like an artist who slaves away at her paintings or a writer who has to write--or as Mabanckou said--i am paraphrasing here--has a worm that eats away from the inside out---hmmm

Fantastico. Sembra un film western. Ottima la storia e l'impostazione grafica.

I don’t know much about the bone wars. In fact I realized I’ve never given much thought at all to the early days of finding dinosaur/prehistoric mammal fossils. Now I have a ton of questions and will need to seek out another source of information on this period in history. This graphic novel was incredibly difficult to follow, which is unusual for a graphic novel. Usually the reason for that is difficulty in distinguishing the characters, but that wasn’t my issue here. I just kept getting totally lost on the plot. Why was paleoartist Charles R Knight sorta the the main character even though nothing really happened to him and it wasn’t like the story was generally being told through his perspective. I am curious about how he studied the bones anatomy and the anatomy of currently living creatures to produce his paintings, so he’s another person I’m going to have to look into.

This is pretty fascinating material: two scientists, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh had a huge rivavlry/race to see who could collect the most fossils. They resorted to shady business to get digging rights. Spies, sabotage, planting fake samples in hopes of tricking the other into writing a scientifically shoddy article, etc. Many famous figures from the time period appear here, like PT Barnum, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Ulysses S. Grant. I couldn’t imagine congress today caring so much about the minutiae of a scientist’s spat, but I guess the US was still in the process of expanding into the interior at this time. All three of the main men, Cope Marsh and Knight, suspected that dinosaurs looked like huge chickens instead of formidable lizards. Why then did I only find out about them being feathered rather than scaly when I was in like middle school? Who decided that we had to keep the feathers under wraps?

The portions with Chief Red Cloud were fascinating. There’s the use of land for fossil digging and how Chief Red Cloud tried to parlay the geological survey into a better deal for his people. He shares with one of the dudes, Marsh or Cope, idk I don’t have the book with me, the legends and myths that fit with the scientific discoveries of the fossils. I am always fascinated by the truth of myth and other ways of understanding. I want to know more about how long humans have known about dinosaurs.

Anyway this certainly sparked a lot of curiosity and I’m gonna have to find a long book about the subject, but the execution of this story was lacking. I can’t even put my finger precisely on why, I just felt confused the entire time. Maybe I was hungry, but I’m comforted to see many reviews with the exact same complaint.

Reviewed at iFanboy