My Beloved Brontosaurus Book Report

For my writing assignment I chose “My Beloved Brontosaurus”. This was such an interesting read to me because I feel as if he put so much effort and thought into it. For example he starts off the book by saying, “From the time I was a toddler, I desperately wanted to meet the gigantic herbivore.” He has had this interest clearly since he was a child and he goes into such depth about it. Many people feel otherwise as well. “My Beloved Brontosaurus” has many reviews including some from NY Times. For example, they state “Mr. Switek, never forgetting his lost love, uses Brontosaurus as a traveling companion through a book about how much our dinosaurs have changed, noting that “the same process that destroyed the titan has revealed clues about …show more content…
People take a lot of that into consideration, as do I. Extinction isn’t always a bad thing, I mean like I said previously dinosaurs have lead us here to where we are today so I must say without them, there wouldn’t be a lot. Without dinosaurs we wouldn’t really know how long we have been here for, that’s where the geologic time scale comes in handy. Switek also helps us understand this. For this to not be a book report, I cant go into much detail explaining a lot about the book but I will say though, nevertheless, I am glad I get to learn new things about dinosaurs and geology in general, but if dinosaurs were still here today, we wouldn’t be alive. So, I definitely have mixed emotions when it comes to that. The overall story was interesting, the author, (Switek), seemed to truly enjoy telling about dinosaurs. The book is appealing as a best seller novel, but filled with research, science, certification, quotes, and much more as if it were found as a very important text, then written for just flat out enjoyment and passion. Another reason his research with dinosaurs was inspiring is because there’s so much more that we continue to find out about the earth that we didn’t know already. Everyday there is something new. I definitely feel more aware about my place on earth and how things came about the way they