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Summary: "Guaranteed to read all day or your money back!!"
Review: This is a great book for all sci-fi lovers like me. The concept of **** (I did that as to not give away the good parts of the book) is truly fascinating to me. If you are interested in UFOs, then this is a book for you. Anyone who hasn't read this book should read it, for the people who have already read it, READ IT AGAIN!!!
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Summary: great sci fi
Review: basically.....this book is GOOD. if u love sci fi and michael crichton....you'll love this too.....very suspenseful and it isnt boring for the first 100 pages like mosst books....it keeps you thinking and thinking untill the end.
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Summary: Not his best
Review: I agree with other reviewers. Interesting story, easy to read. Good. But characters are too apparent (or stereotypical?). I couldn't believe they were professional scientists or expert (even the navy peoples too). they don't look like really trained scientific people. Just streotypical 'images' of scientists having many (stereotypical again) problems. I would say I enjoyed it but at many spots, I feel this was written somewhat amateurish. Maybe it was a mistake to read it with a book by Larry Mcmurtry (Lonesome Dove - classic). Conslusion: Fascinating idea/story but disapointing writing.
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Summary: excellent sci-fi
Review: I really enjoyed reading the book Sphere. The novel is well written and well paced. It keeps you on the edge of your seat. It is an intriguing story from beginning to end. I highly reccomend it.
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Summary: a thrilling page-turner!
Review: Like others who have written reviews about Sphere, I could NOT put it down. I had to read the other half in one day before I even started my school work.
Sphere, of course, is about a group of men and women from different backgrounds selected by the Navy to go down to the depths of the Pacific in order to investigate a very large spacecraft..... possibly of alien origin.
Down there however, Crichton turns the novel into a thrilling mind game with a surprise in the last 20-30 pages.
Norman and the others must not only discover the purpose of this craft and any technology in it, but must also discover it before time runs out in the habitat and on themselves as well.
Typically, I'm not a fan of authors whose books are constantly turned into movies but Sphere was a different matter entirely.
Give it a read and see for yourself what a masterpiece Crichton has written!
-Travis S.
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Summary: Great book!!!!
Review: Michael Crichton is one of the best writers of our time. This book is a perfect example of this. If you're into science fiction you will like this for sure. This book is much better than the movie. It mixes a lot of technological science fiction with suspense in a well balanced way. If you're a fan of Michael Crichton and haven't read this book. Please do. You will not regret it. It's a must buy.
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Summary: Who said Fantasy can't be engrossing?
Review: One only has to read through the the sheer amount of time and effort that went into this book to realsie that Crichton has created a novel that really leaves the reader desperately grasping for a definitive answer to the end of the book. Because, you see, the whole purpose of this novel is to question. Ask oneself what are our TRUE fears? By the conclusion of this epic adventure I do not think that even Crichton knows the answer. And why should he? He is only really setting the agenda for deep and intense discussion.The way in which the book is formated, you gain a feeling of order and stability. I mean look at it, nicely ordered sections, roughly around the same size. But, within this regimented set-up, there lies the probing uncertainty of the human mind. Like most of his novels, technological detail is reasonably paramount. And this indeed aids the reader to have a greater understanding of exactly what they are attempting to contemplate. But, Michael Crichton leaves what are his usual surroundings and explores an area that can never quite be defined. As already mentioned, he delves into psychology, which subsequently engulfs all the characters and drags the reader helplessly along with it. This novel shows that Crichton is an extremely versatile writer. Not merely sticking to what he does best (mainly adventures) but showing that he can cover a large spectrum of issues that all of us can relate to in one way or the other.Fantastic read! Buy it, read it, and then re-read it!
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Summary: Crichton at his best
Review: Psychologist Norman Johnson accepted a grant to predict the likely reactions of human beings to alien first contact because he needed money to buy his family a house. Not because he could take such a task seriously. The last thing he expected, years later, was to find himself applying his study's conclusions in real life. But here he is, nevertheless. On his way to a habitat beneath the Pacific Ocean, with a team he hand picked - just long enough ago so that its members aren't exactly the same people they were when he selected them. The habitat has been set up for easy access to a sphere that's been lying on the ocean's floor for 300 years.
No 53-year-old in average (less than optimum) physical health belongs where the Navy has decided Norman Johnson should go. He realizes that as he and the rest of the first contact team, of which he is a member rather than the leader, explore the ancient spaceship. When a storm forces the Navy to withdraw surface support, stranding the team, Norman finds out exactly how right he was in some of his theorizing. He also finds out how wrong he was.
Sphere is Crichton at his best. The ensemble cast of this novel rings true as the plot sweeps them from crisis to crisis, through twist after twist. Its ending is perfect, after a wild ride that's everything a sci-fi thriller ought to be.
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Summary: Glance at characters and storyline
Review: Sphere is easily one of the best and most intense novels I have ever read. The characters are indeed dynamic. The storyline doesn't let you go until the very end. I finished the entire book in ten hours! The story starts with a middle-aged psychiatrist and takes the reader deep into the world in the ocean. A strange space ship is found underwater. You know what the strange thing is? READ IT! YOU'LL FIGURE IT OUT! I guarantee you, if you pick up this book, you won't put it away until you find out exactly what happens. Clearly, Crichton has put a lot of time, effort and research into writing this novel. It's better than any classic.
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Summary: Sphere is one of the best science fiction novels written!
Review: This book is a must read!
It all starts out when Norman Johnson, a psychologist, is asked to come to a crash site in the middle of the Pacific. When he arrives at the site, the Navy informs him that it wasn't a plane that crashed but a spacecraft. When Norman asks when the spacecraft had crashed (assuming within the last 30 years), he is told that it crashed nearly 300 years ago.
What makes Sphere such a phenomenal novel is the unbelievable suspense. Sphere is one of those books that you cannot put down; there is not one dull part in this novel. Crichton writes so descriptively that the situation could be real. I found so many mysteries and questions in this book, and when they were resolved, the solutions blew my mind away.
Sphere is filled with action, suspense, and mystery and fills my imagination even now. Anyone who reads this book will definitely enjoy it, and will keep wanting more.
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