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ccoelophysis's review
5.0
This book first caught my eye at the Lookout Mountain Nature Center in Jeffco, CO. I was drawn by the mountain lion on the cover (mountain lion merchandise of any sort is hard to come by, but I managed to find a magnet there as well which now resides on our refrigerator door). I did not pick up a copy then but have since seen it on display at my local library and found a near-new used hardback copy at Goodwill which I purchased. So little seems to be known about mountain lions in the wild that I consider this book a rare treasure. As a two-year Colorado resident it is a bit eerie to be familiar with the locations in the book. The descriptions of mountain lion attack aftermath are quite gruesome but I wish more than ever to see a mountain lion outside of the zoo and this book gives me hope I may one day spot one somewhere along the Front Range.
abrswf's review against another edition
4.0
Fascinating and detailed account of the history and ecological developments that led to a fatal cougar attack near Boulder, and what happened after that.
lit_chick's review
5.0
What a great book! I couldn't put it down. I picked it up because I recently read Max Brooks' "Devolution" and he mentioned that this was one of his influences. You can see the themes from "A Beast in the Garden" deftly woven in to "Devolution." I also like the narrative flow of the book, it read like a novel.
twozsinapod's review
3.0
This was okay. I didn't dislike it, but it isn't something I'd normally pick up and read on my own. It does do a decent job of being educational while still telling a story, which places it a step above other books I've had to read for classes.