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Ilya Skopin supersko — This is an amazing story, with many amazing, but horrifying human destinies, about the search for a mysterious, ancient city. The lost city of Z. Spoiler's alert! The problem with this book was that during the first half, I didn't really care for Fawsett and his son. It's because the book handles too many destinies. I was blinded by every disappearance, and it ceased to affect me the way I had expected. Unfortunately. The book gained some speed half way through, but I'm afraid it isn't enough to make up for a slow start. What bothered me a great deal was the way the indians were treated by the white people. They were terrorized, driven from their home, and then, ironically, when the white people had realized the value of indian culture, the indians were educated about their old culture. A culture they had forgot. Generations lost. Considering how the white people murdered, raped, tortured (and there are even whispers about cannibalism), it's not surprising which kind of attitude the indians had towards them. No wonder some of the tribes were considered unfriendly and weary. Perhaps one would rather have stayed with the indians, as many think Fawsett chose to do. I felt a sting of sadness for the destroyed rain forest, which, without its greenery and vegetation, runs the risk of destroying the global eco system, something worth thinking about. Why do we molest our own planet, destroying the home for generations to come? Who could be so self-destructive, but humans? Another thing that really struck a chord was Ninas destiny, as an abandoned and penniless wife. It was heart-breaking. I can't really understand how Fawsett could leave her like that, so many times. It was very patriotic of her to always trust he was coming back. It always hurt tremendously to read about people that sacrifices everything: their happiness, their love, their reputation and even their life, and doesn't expect anything in return. Nothing gets to me like that. I don't know much about Nina, but that made her a real person, someone I could see in front of me. What I don't understand is how her only remaining son, Brian, could decide to leave her, as well, and conduct his own expedition, in search of his father and brother, more than twenty-five years after their disappearance. I mean, why not earlier, when they could have still been alive? Was his aggression towards his father for leaving him at home and choosing his brother for the expedition, so strong back then, that he couldn't bring himself to it? Now, to the findings! I began to believe that David Grann wouldn't get anywhere with the mystery and it was satisfying to learn that Fawsett was finally justified. Grann himself didn't discover anything, but learned it from others, which was a mayor disappointment, but still, Grann's own expedition was exciting. And, furthermore, he is excellent at research. Grann's contact Heckenberger published his research and findings in "The ecology of power", a book I would want to look into. Anna Roosevelt, great grand-daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, found some interesting remains of a settlement at least ten thousand years old, in a cave in the Brasilian Amazon, indicating that the first Americans didn't migrate from Asia, but was indeed living in the Amazon. Another great finding in the Amazon is the oldest pottery in the Andes and Mesoamerica, that shows that civilization might have spread from there. Findings implying civilized settlements are what appears to be bridges as long as half a mile, and roads as wide as a hundred and fifty feet, which is very impressive. This undoubtedly challenges the existing view, and scholars are now reevaluating the prospect of the mythical El Dorado. In 2006 an astronomical observatory tower was uncovered in northern Brazilian Amazon, made of huge granite rocks each weighing several tons and as tall as ten feet, supposedly as much as two thousand years old. Unfortunately, Grann goes through these interesting and highly important findings and results very fast and I would have liked to delve into them a bit more. This hurried explanation kind of destroyed the suspense. Despite the myths and the few remains, not much of the old history of the so called lost city of Z is written down, as other parts of the world, but fortunately some of the tribes - The Kalapalos for instance, that were the last people who saw Fawsett - have preserved their culture amazingly. As Heckenberger stated: "You can see the past in the present".

Matt Klein _att_lein — Volume 2 begins with Gus trapped in the "preserve," where he meets several other animal-kid hybrids, also locked up in the prison camp. Wendy, a pig-girl, is one of the few who can speak, and she tells him what actually happens there: someone comes to get the hybrid kids, and they don't come back. Soon Gus is taken to talk with the doctor, who believes that something in Gus's past will explain the plague. Meanwhile, Jepperd considers his own past, reviewing how he came to be the person he is, and deciding who he wants to be. The post-apocalyptic elements are clearer here; there's a better sense that this is something that Happened to the world and now we're living in it, rather than something that's happening Out There Far Away. Violence is ticking up, pushing this more toward upper-high school or adults.

Gaston Piriz pablopirize799 — The interesting thing about rereading the series is I can now see Sam and Alyssa's story arc unfold completely. This book is one of the strongest ones in the series, I think. First read 8/1/04