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There’s a lot we don’t know about the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Did they have feathers or scales? Were they aggressive carnivores or were they scavengers eating only cast-off remains? We’ll never know.
The one, true and undisputed fact that we do know about the Tyrannosaurus Rex?
Those guys LOVED to read.
The T-Rex (every last Rexacoricofallapatorius one of them) were highly intelligent and voracious readers, with strong leadership qualities.
You’d often find T-Rex enjoying brunch at their local cafe – steak and eggs with a side of crispy bacon – current read clutched in one small withered claw.
In this post, we finally let you in on a secret that has been fossilised for too long. What were the T-Rex reading, and how can you get your human sized arms on a copy?
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T-Rex Horror Prompt: 'The Shining' by Stephen King
The T-Rex was a fierce and dominant predator, but even they respected the intense psychological horror and the creeping dread of the Overlook Hotel. All work and no play makes T-Rex a dull boy. Also they really admire anyone able to use a typewriter.
Book Blurb:
Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a ‘shiner’, aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny’s visions grow out of control.
As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 and who are the masked guests going up and down in the elevator? And why do the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive?
Somewhere, somehow, there is an evil force in the hotel – and that, too, is beginning to shine …
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T-Rex Mystery Prompt: 'The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency' by Alexander McCall Smith
Although a powerful and inquisitive creature, the T-Rex always had time for some cosy mystery. They would spend hours enjoying the charming and resourceful protagonist, Precious Ramotswe, and her adventures in solving mysteries in Botswana. If they said it once, they said it a thousand times – capable female detectives are the jam!
Book Blurb:
Wayward daughters. Missing Husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you’ve got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s only – and finest – female private detective.
Her methods may not be conventional, and her manner not exactly Miss Marple, but she’s got warmth, wit and canny intuition on her side, not to mention Mr J.L.B. Maketoni, the charming proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. And Precious is going to need them all as she sets out on the trail of a missing child, a case that tumbles our heroine into a hotbed of strange situations and more than a little danger …
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‘The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency’ by Alexander McCall Smith
T-Rex Literary Prompt: 'The Life of Pi' by Yann Martel
This novel follows the journey of Pi Patel, adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. The T-Rex, when discussing Pi in their bookclub, would often tear up at the thought of such a little guy on an adventure with a creature most others would call “chompy”, “too aggressive” or “carnivorous”. The vivid imagery and philosophical undertones, also made T-Rex feel quite smart and capable.
Book Blurb:
One boy, one boat, one tiger …
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan – and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years.
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T-Rex Romance Prompt: 'The Hating Game' by Sally Thorne
This book features quirky and endearing characters who engage in witty banter and playful rivalry. Often cast in the role of “enemy”, the T-Rex loved an enemies-to-lovers trope as it gave them hope for a future that would be more ‘smooch-smooch’ and less ‘bite-bite’. T-Rex also quite enjoyed a bit of workplace banter and appreciated the quick pacing and unpredictable nature of a suspenseful romance.
Book Blurb:
Lucy Hutton has always been certain that the nice girl can get the corner office. She’s charming and accommodating and prides herself on being loved by everyone at Bexley & Gamin. Everyone except for coldly efficient, impeccably attired, physically intimidating Joshua Templeman. And the feeling is mutual. Trapped in a shared office together forty (ok, fifty or sixty) hours a week, they’ve become entrenched in an addictive, ridiculous never-ending game of one-upmanship. There’s the Staring Game. The Mirror Game. The HR Game. Lucy can’t let Joshua beat her at anything-especially when a huge new promotion goes up for the taking. If Lucy wins this game, she’ll be Joshua’s boss. If she loses, she’ll resign. So why is she suddenly having steamy dreams about Joshua, and dressing for work like she’s got a hot date? After a perfectly innocent elevator ride ends with an earth shattering kiss, Lucy starts to wonder whether she’s got Joshua Templeman all wrong. Maybe Lucy Hutton doesn’t hate Joshua Templeman. And maybe, he doesn’t hate her either. Or maybe this is just another game.
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T-Rex Non-Fiction Prompt: 'The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs' by Steve Brusatte
T-Rex were absolutely intrigued by books that delved into their own history and evolution. Often tooth-deep in their own scientific experiments, T-Rex were very focused on attention to detail and had a sinking feeling that they should be working a little bit harder on designing their space-craft ahead of any potential climate events. They also quite liked looking at pictures of themselves.
Book Blurb:
In this captivating narrative (enlivened with more than 70 original illustrations and photographs), Steve Brusatte, a young American palaeontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field–naming 15 new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork–masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy. Captivating and revelatory, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a book for the ages.
Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers–themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period–into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorises today, T-Rex, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and more. This gifted scientist and writer re-creates the dinosaurs’ peak during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, when thousands of species thrived, and winged and feathered dinosaurs, the prehistoric ancestors of modern birds, emerged. The story continues to the end of the Cretaceous period, when a giant asteroid or comet struck the planet and nearly every dinosaur species (but not all) died out, in the most extraordinary extinction event in earth’s history, one full of lessons for today as we confront a sixth extinction.
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