This was a pleasent departure fron his usual genre.
I had to say up till 4.30 a.m. to finish reading it.
It was that kind of book, but I did find one inconsistency.
The story is mainly told by the 'hero' Jackson OZ. We
assume it is being told in 2012, though as Jackson says
it really started two years before when he noticed something
'strange' 'odd' that he could not let go of and has been
developing ever since.
On page 142-143 he says-"Charles Groth...one of the world's
leading gorilla experts...THREE years ago was suddenly
attacked by a 400 pound gorilla..the ape broke all the
bones in his face, tore away his nose, lips, one of his ears,
eyes, hands and right leg from the knee down." Thus we can
conclude this event took place in 2009.
On page 201 Chapter 50 begins with the words FIVE YEARS LATER.
On page 217 Dr. Goth is cooking and we are told "The male
gorilla who had attacked him in his primatology lab at
Johns Hopkins THREE YEARS AGO took his left hand as well as
his nose, his lips, his right eye, left ear, and his right
leg from the knee down."
So in 'reality' if the story started in 2012 and it is 5
years later it is then 2017 and the accident with the ape
happened in 2009 that makes it EIGHT years ago and NOT THREE.
Just a small error. Most people would not even notice.
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