#152 in Historical fiction
Dragon Teeth
- 336
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 4 weeks on the list, peaked at #2
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Our view
“Dragon Teeth” is a Western about fossil hunters, not a dinosaur thriller, and on those terms it is thoroughly entertaining. Michael Crichton wrote it in 1974, decades before it appeared, and sends a Yale student west in 1876 to work for two feuding real-life paleontologists. Some readers praise its energy and what they learn along the way; some recognise a rougher, early Crichton, and others advise reading it for fun, not depth.
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About the book
Dragon Teeth is a novel by Michael Crichton, the eighteenth under his own name and third to be published after his death, written in 1974 and published on May 23, 2017. A historical fiction forerunner to Jurassic Park, the novel is set in the American West in 1876 during the Bone Wars, a period of fervent competition for fossil hunting between two real-life paleontologists noted for their intense rivalry, Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. The plot follows the fictional protagonist William Johnson, a Yale student who works during the summer alternately for the two paleontologists.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 159 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 52% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Historical fiction average of 8.0. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.3 | 15 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 144 | 91% |
Frequently asked
How long is Dragon Teeth?
It has 336 pages — shorter than 75% of the ranked books in Historical fiction.
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