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(More customer reviews)This is a fun read. Polsky has a knack of demystifying the worlds he exposes. First the art world and now the Paleontology world with BoneHeads. Although he doesn't find the elusive T. Rex (or does he?) he does find a crazy universe of denizens that rivals the motley crew most of us experienced in junior high!
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Richard Polsky's seriously hilarious new book Boneheads: My Search forT. Rex leads us deep into the South Dakota badlands where he discovers a losttribe -- the Boneheads -- and becomes one of them. This oddball group of dinosaur hunters is intent on bagging the Holy Grail of the profession -- a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. Fewer than fifty skeletons have ever been found, but one of them brought $8.3 million at Sotheby's.Meet the Boneheads, a modern stone-age family: There's Stan and Steve Sacrisson, eccentric twins from South Dakota, with an uncanny sense for locating rexes. Though one is a gravedigger and the other sleeps in his car, the pair have discovered three of them. Then there's cowboy Bucky Derflinger who discovered two rexes and bought a cattle ranch with the million-dollar proceeds. And finally there's the tribe's monarch: Bob Detrich, a former male model and ball-bearing salesman who goes by the name Fossil King. Polsky goes into the field to follow a childhood obsession, only to learn that finding a dinosaur is a rocky journey. So come along with Richard Polsky as he gets out into the field in pursuit of a T. rex of his own. Or as the author puts it, "Let others hunt trilobites! I want the big one!"
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