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Dinosaur: 65 million by catt dahman (Lack of capitalization in name and title from the author.)

This book was easily the worst written book I have ever finished. I don't think the author even proofread it herself.

Set in the near future, America and all of humanity was predicted to die out within ten years. So what did the American government do about this? It decided to conscript people to go on reality shows so they'd get killed and the reduced population might survive a bit longer. (Oh you've just started to boggle, believe me.)

Somehow the American government also brought back dinosaurs. And what did they do with them, in these last ten years of humanity? Set up a reality show using them to kill off Americans even faster.

32 people were dropped into an area of the country full of dinosaurs. They had next to no supplies. They had three weeks to race to the other end. Whoever lived would get a couple million dollars.

I love dinosaurs, I like reality shows, so this seemed like a really interesting idea. Unfortunately the author's writing was atrocious:

- She misspelled her main characters' names repeatedly (Bert/Burt and others).
- She had tons of basic misspelling and wrong word use (their/there/they're).
- Endless punctuation issues.
- Sentences cut off, as if she had meant to delete it but hadn't gotten it all. For example: " They ran away. It was "
- The most LAZY writing tricks ever. In a scene where no cameras were even mentioned:

Susan said, "I know that plant."
***Camera pans to left***

Unsurprising, as bad as the writing was, the plot issues were so so so SO much worse.

- The people had nearly no supplies. Yet on day 6 they somehow made spears with no mention of how -- they just suddenly had spears.
- On the same day, somehow they had dish soap and made napalm.
- The dinosaurs were normal sized, and so the T-rexes were huge. Yet one person crushed one with a boulder by kicking the boulder. He kicked a rock big enough to kill a dino...

Yet, with all of those issues, I somehow enjoyed at least part of the book. It was a good idea, the author was just such a god awful writer, she couldn't do anything with it.

This author has 72 books for sale on Amazon. This is the kind of thing that makes me dislike self-publishing so much. There are rare good self-published books out there, but self-publishing allows for this utter dreck to be published, too.