Thunderhead

By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Archaeologist Nora Kelly is adrift in her career and her personal life when a violent, inexplicable incident leaves her in possession of a mysterious letter. Written by her father, who vanished sixteen years ago in the remote desert, the letter reveals the location of a legendary site hidden in the red rock canyon country of southern Utah: Quivira, the Anasazi Indians' wondrous lost city of gold.--BOOK JACKET. "Convinced that her father truly had found Quivira, Nora puts together an expedition and takes a team up Lake Powell to the mouth of Serpentine Canyon. In the stark labyrinth of canyons and slickrock desert she will find the answer to both her greatest hopes and her deepest nightmare. For hidden in the shadows of the sunbaked cliffs are untold treasures, the solution to the greatest riddle of American archaeology - and implacable, suffocating death."--BOOK JACKET.

It roars

Really worth it, although looonnnng. Scott B. does a good job on this one, brining each character to life. Wasn't sure where this story as going to go, and it did go far. Perhaps abit drawn out, it still held me, and I recommend it.

Not my favorite

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

This story seemed to take a LONG time to get going. I nearly stopped listening a couple times because it just seemed to be going nowhere..slowly. Finally I had enough time invested that it seemed a shame not to finish the thing off and get to the end. Also, finally the story picked up enough that I had some interest.

I did hang in there and was glad to see the heroine achieve her goal. It was also interesting to see how some basic human traits were portrayed and played out.

What was most disappointing about Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child ’s story?

The story felt like it took a long time to develop. I did not really ever engage with the characters and felt they were rather 1-dimensional in their development. I would have loved to have heard more of the history and archaeology involved. While that would have made for a longer book, I think it would have added to it overall.

Did Scott Brick do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

Initially the falsetto voices of the females was annoying..and well, honestly...it stayed that way.

Could you see Thunderhead being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

If it was I doubt i would watch it.

Only one

Only one thing anoied me in this book and it stuck out because I have a degree in pharmacy. Amphotericin B is antifungal not antibiotic. Antifungals are used to treat fungal-infections and antibiotics are for treatment of bacterial infections. Amphotericin B is not affective against bacterial infections. Liked the book , will deffenetly listen again.

Douglas Preston was my grandma's neighbor!

Nora's Basset Hound, Thurber, was inspired by my grandma's Basset, Andale, haha. Great story too!

Darker than what i normally read

Decent story. I see little to no value of so many dead animals though. And more people died than necessary. Trite IMO, that only the main protagonist and one other survive.

I almost didn't bother to finish. Other readers will likely enjoy the story line. The reader was very good. I sped up to about 1.2. I don't like very slow reading.