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Summary: Palatable Pulp
Review: *Terminal Man* was originally serialized in *Playboy* magazine and it shows... While the novel maintains typical Chricton characteristics (lots of jargon, some interesting science, and characters with only as much depth as is necessary to not drown in the plot), the original publication format shows. Despite being intended to carry you through on a sweeping suspense ride, the book is quite episodic -- it feels like a serial. Moreover, there are bits of sexuality and so forth thrown in at random times to titiliate the readers. Obviously, *Rising Sun* had a much more sexual plot, but it was purposeful. Here, the occasional sexual elements seem more gratuitous than enything else. As for the plot of medical responsibility, it's interesting, but not carried out as well as in *Jurassic Park*, which deals with a similar theme. (Just because you can do something -- should you?)
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Summary: another terrific title from a magnificant author!!
Review: The Terminal Man is about a man, Harry Benson, who was in an automobile accident. The result of the accident was some mild brain damage. He was normal except for about two minutes per day. The auto accident has caused him to have psychomotor epilepsy. They send him into violent seizures and a state of mind that did not allow him to know what he was doing, or to who. Benson underwent a surgery in which a computer is implanted into his brain to cure the violent seizures. Electrodes that were connected to the miniature computer are placed deep into crevasses the brain too send monitored soothing pulses to its pleasure canyons.. Harry Benson has been cured, or so it seems, of his violent seizures by a surgical procedure known as a stage three. His hospital room is monitored day and night by armed policeman. Some how Benson manages to escape by stealing a white doctor's lab coat and sneaking out. By the time they notice he is missing he has become homicidal. Benson has discovered how to get the pulses with increasing frequency. Benson has become hopelessly addicted to the immediate gratification of stimuli in an exponential time scale. The doctors try to keep the incident quiet and return Benson alive. The only problem is they must track, capture, and bring him back to the lab before he is receiving his pleasure stimuli constantly. When this happens then he will be on a violent rampage in which nothing or nobody can stop. Over the course of the night that Benson has escaped and the doctors that performed the surgery are looking for him he does a number of things. The first place he goes is to his home. He figured that he must pick up some things. At this time he is acting normal. He called three women previous to his admission to the hospital and they come over to his house to care for it while he is absent. When one of the doctors goes to Benson's home he is not there, but he does find the women swimming in Benson's swimming pool. They tell the doctor that he had been there and picked up two objects, a blueprint and a lunch box. During the course of the night Benson rapes one female and then murders her. He severely beat an airplane mechanic among other people. The doctors seem to be following on his footsteps. It is fairly easy to follow because all they have to do is report to where nearly any violent crime had been committed. all in all this novel was not his best work but is certainly better that a lot of the other trash that is printed by other authors. i read this book on my own time. i could barely put it down, and i HATE to read. it was used as an example in my psychology book and i also wrote a review of it for that class.
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Summary: Great book - interesting!
Review: The Terminal Man is very detailed, with lots of medical jargon. Near the end, the book gets very suspenseful... great book (but not as great as SPHERE).
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Summary: Another Great Crighton Book
Review: This book is another grest one. I have read better but liked it just as much. He has better. If you read this you should enjoy it, if not tell me. We'll talk about it, I'm sure I can convince you that it is good.
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: The Terminal Man is as suspenseful as it is dramatic. Almost unnoticed in the wake of Crichton's bestselling giants, the Lost World and Jurassic Park, this book brings up interesting questions of medical ethics. The author begins this book invoking some sympathy for Harry Benson, the victim/villain main character of this book. Harry seems confused, confused enough even to go on a horrific killing spree. He commits a heinous murder, which shifts a feeling of distrust to the reader. A manhunt ensues after this, developing the characters a bit more rapidly than they probably should be. But it is here that Crichton mixes in a large dose of excitement. Michael Cricton has once again displayed his brilliance in this novel with a captivating plot, interesting characters, and a deep moral. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a taste for suspense.
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Summary: Quick and entertaining read
Review: This is by far not a book in the same league with Jurassic Park or The Lost World but it is an interesting book that, for some strange reason, satisfied my action craving mind. Most of the book centers around the medical area of the story but still kept me reading at full speed until the exciting ending. I liked it.
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Summary: If you love Crichton, you'll like this book, just like
Review: Terminal Man, although by no means Crichton's best, is a good book and fun to read. If, like I said, you love Crichton, you will like this book, but probably only like it, not love it. It ranks right up there with Andromedra Strain on my list (good, but not great). Worth reading.
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Summary: Great Book-Great Plot- 4 STARS! * * * *
Review: Although one of Crichton's first novels, this book has an interesting plot that will keep you reading for hours on end and have you in so much suspense, you will not know if Harry could be waiting at your door-step. The content inside of this book made it all the better, written in the 1970's it was extremely technologically advanced for it's time!
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Summary: weak plot
Review: I did not much like this book. The plot is weak and unconvincing. Hardly any action in it. Just some scenes of brutality to add some "spice". The ending was better than the rest of the book
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Summary: No stimulation here
Review: This is a medical thriller. While the medical stuff is quite interesting (like the idea for the novel) the thriller-stuff gives the word by-the-numbers a new meaning. Easily the least (not counting the screenplay for TWISTER) book in Crichtons otherwise impressive canon.
Crichton readers expect a page-turner. This isn't one. Though one of his shortest books, it seems like his longest.
p.s.: Film director Mike Hodges did a very faithful adaption of the book for the screen. He managed to caputre the boredom of the book in the film...
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