Our friends over at Austin’s Pizza are big readers, and since we’re big pizza eaters, it only made sense that we come together to sponsor Austin’s Pizza Book of the Month. AP will be reviewing a book every month which we’ll feature here on our blog and in-store. The first book is The Tiger by John Valliant, which came out in paperback just this week.
Pizza is good. Books are good. And the two together sound like the kind of date night a bookseller can get down with.
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JD Torian of Austin’s Pizza reviews The Tiger
A chance showing of a short movie called Conflict Tiger inspired author John Vaillant to write a book answering lingering questions he had about the true-life events of the movie and to—presumably—dig deeper.
The book is based on a true story of a Russian Amur Tiger that—for one reason or another—begins to hunt and kill people. Since part of survival in the cudds is relying on a basic, reasonable amount of animal predictability, this storyline and its implications are particularly terrifying.
Vaillant takes special care transferring the story to book-form. Woven between and within the basic plot is a lot of background information. Never taking away from the story or belaboring, all this information proves necessary. Vaillant does a great job setting up the characters, the surroundings, and the situation. Then he goes into delicate detail as to why things went the way they did. With all of this he throws in some very solid, fact-backed environmental ethos as well.
Character one is Markov. Initially we’re introduced to his body parts, if not him. Character number two is Yuri Trush. He’s part of Operation Tiger, a Russian governmental agency that handles tiger environments, tiger poaching/ protection, and tiger behavior issues. Third is the tiger…..
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