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Available
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Publication
Onyx (1996), Paperback, 384 pages
Description
Making an incredible breakthrough in dolphin communications, a beautiful marine biologist learns from her oceanic friends that an environmental disaster of earth-shattering proportions is imminent. Reprint. PW.
User reviews
LibraryThing member stiegie
This very fascinating and exciting book is about the discovery of dolphin-communication. It deals with the intelligence, dolphins have and with the cruel fishing methods of tuna-fish, which includes the needless death of thousands of dolphins.
Although all of these ecological aspects, it's also a
I read the book in a few days and could hardly put it down. It may be a fantasy book and perhaps even a science fiction book, because there is some true evidence, regarding the intelligence of dolphins in the real world. The story is expanding on that premise.
To close, I like to quote a few lines, which have touched me (page 117):
“Daniel ducked his head under the water again and waved the cube back and forth in front of his face; the dolphin watched for a moment, then gently took the toy from Daniel’s hand with his teeth, reared his head back up above the surface and threw it some fifty feet away.
Daniel felt a rush of amazement. He was actually playing with this wild creature, bigger than he was, in its own environment! He swam quickly to retrieve the cube, brought it back, and waggled it in front of his face again. The dolphin took it in his mouth again, and once more tossed it a dozen yards across the water. Swimming toward the floating yellow cube again, Daniel suddenly realized what was happening: The dolphin was teaching him to play fetch.
Daniel started to laugh as he swam, so hard he almost swallowed a mouthful of seawater, so hard that – well, he couldn’t really remember when he’d last laughed that thouroughly or spontaneously. Not for a long, long time. And that, he suddenly knew, had been the dolphin’s gift to him.”
Although all of these ecological aspects, it's also a
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love story and it raises sometimes the question of the sense of the work someone (anyone) is doing.I read the book in a few days and could hardly put it down. It may be a fantasy book and perhaps even a science fiction book, because there is some true evidence, regarding the intelligence of dolphins in the real world. The story is expanding on that premise.
To close, I like to quote a few lines, which have touched me (page 117):
“Daniel ducked his head under the water again and waved the cube back and forth in front of his face; the dolphin watched for a moment, then gently took the toy from Daniel’s hand with his teeth, reared his head back up above the surface and threw it some fifty feet away.
Daniel felt a rush of amazement. He was actually playing with this wild creature, bigger than he was, in its own environment! He swam quickly to retrieve the cube, brought it back, and waggled it in front of his face again. The dolphin took it in his mouth again, and once more tossed it a dozen yards across the water. Swimming toward the floating yellow cube again, Daniel suddenly realized what was happening: The dolphin was teaching him to play fetch.
Daniel started to laugh as he swam, so hard he almost swallowed a mouthful of seawater, so hard that – well, he couldn’t really remember when he’d last laughed that thouroughly or spontaneously. Not for a long, long time. And that, he suddenly knew, had been the dolphin’s gift to him.”
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LibraryThing member Evalangui
This is the story Pamela makes into a movie called Starsea in Grimwood’s novel Reply, in Reply you get a vague description of the plot and a more in-depth one of the effect the movie has, that’s to say, a worldwide change in perspective for the viewers. The real story does not quite live up to
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what I had imagined but I liked it a lot, especially the second half, where events start succeeding one another at a crazy speed and I realised I cared what happened to the characters (human and dolphin) even though they weren't, to be honest, all that tridimensional. The descriptions of graphic violence creeped me out but I can’t say they are out of place. Because of the role of imagery and images in it it’s so very prominent it very likely would make a much better movie than novel. Show Less
Physical description
384 p.; 6.8 inches
ISBN
0451406451 / 9780451406453