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The Dolphin People (2006)

by Torsten Krol(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1843545772 (ISBN13: 9781843545774)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Atlantic Books

review 1: Can I please stop reading bad books his year? This book was soooo weird. I bought it in a bargain bin and I'm very glad that I didn't spend full price on it. Everyone on here raves about this book and I really don't understand why. This book was well written but the story line was so disgusting and disturbing. I'm really surprised that this book did not give me nightmares. Reading the synopsis makes it sound like oh this is a good plot. It started off as a good plot but once you really started to get into it it got soooo weird and messed up. I understand it was written in a time period were this could have happened with Nazi's and indigenous secluded Indians but I feel like the author took it too far. It reminded me a little bit of The Lord of the Flies. So if you... more liked that book you probably would like this book. In high school I did not like the Lord of the Flies and I do not like this book. I started this book originally last summer and got 20 pages into it before I just gave it up. This time I had nothing else to read so I decided to pick it up and now I wish I didn't. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone especially if you are under the age of 18. There is a lot of description of murder, nakedness, blood and many other really nasty things. There is so much more that I could say but that would spoil the book and I wouldn't want to do that to people who really want to read this book.
review 2: So I needed something to hold me over until Mockingjay was released, and this is what I picked up on a whim at the bookstore. This gem’s author uses a pen name, and rightfully so. I would probably keep my identity secret if I wrote a book whose characters sympathize with Nazis, are child hermaphrodites, and have nightmarish accounts involving piranhas and candiru (seriously, check them out). I picked this one up while I was on a survival of the fittest kick. It starts out simple enough: a family is on their way to Venezuela, and their plane crashes in a river tributary in the middle of the Amazon. Then an indigenous tribe finds them, mistakes them for dolphins who have taken the form of people, and take the family of “dolphins” back to live as guests in the tribe’s village (it’s actually just a giant house made of dirt with hammocks). A series of disturbing events follow: the family drinks a dead person’s remains to prove a point, they snort tree bark that makes them see dead Jewish children (among other things), and one performs surgery with no help from anesthesia (due to a prior morphine addiction). Now, I’m not going to lie to you and say that this one isn’t a page-turner; I finished it in two days. I’m also not going to be the creep who recommends it to you and takes responsibility for the way you can never look at someone peeing into a river the same again (not that you ever looked before; I’m just trying to make a point here). If you do decide to pick it up, at least you’ll know one person who won’t judge you. less

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