Congo

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Summary: Another great one!!
Review: This is again Michael Crichton at his best. I think he did a wonderful job at portraying two different peoples lives at one time. It shows where technology has gone and will still go. It also shows how far humans have come and may still go in communicating with another species. A definite page turner. It's one of those books you like so much you don't want it to end but you still want to find out what happens at the end of the book. I definitely recommend this book to just about everybody.

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Summary: It was OK.....
Review: The book was pretty good but it felt a little too clumpy, more like a screenplay than a book. I liked Eaters of the Dead better. There was so much fact proofs that this book took me about a week to read when I read Eaters of the Dead in one day. I did liked Amy and how she and her trainer communicated with the grey gorillas so they would not get pummeled to death by their heavy hands holding some heavy paddles.

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Summary: a very good book. really!
Review: this was the first michael crichton book i had ever read, and i really enjoyed it. the language crichton used made the story believable and exciting. there is a bit of lull in the middle section, but the story is worth it. i also recommend reading Sphere

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Summary: Promissing in the beginning
Review: When I began the book, it started off with a great opening and I was excited. But after the beginning, the book slowed down, and had a few bright sopts for about 200 pages. It picked up near the end and the suspense began building and i read the remanider in an hour or so, but when I got to the last page, I was pretty dissapointed, hence my 3 star rating. Another thing I dissliked was a lot of scientific junk that made the book boring, then again if you read it in 1980 when it was first published, it might have been more fascinating. So it had bright spots, but for the most part it was slow-moving.

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Summary: A really cool book
Review: I loved Congo. The characters where cool. The plot could have been better. I thought the gorrilas using paddles to kill people was pretty fakey and there where a few minor flaws in reserch. Other than that I thought it was one of the best books I've ever read. If you liked Jurassic Park, buy Congo.

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Summary: A group of exploers find a hidden city with a bruitil secret
Review: A group of exploers find a hidden city with a bruitil secret. They discover the lost city of zinj and learn of diamonds hidden in the city. but when there in the city they don't know they've been watched the whole time.

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Summary: Terrible
Review: I was searching for a "light" but entertaining book to read, and somehow, I decided to pick Congo. Bad mistake. The introduction was promising, I thought it would have some "realism", as the author made me believe (he even included more than two pages of references, such as Scientific American and...(yes) Rolling Stone). Big lie. The math is shameful, clearly Crichton has no idea what he's talking about (just as the "chaos" theory in Jurassic Park), and other details of the book reveal his careless "research" (like the emeralds in Bolivia!). But these are just irrelevant details if you are looking for a novel, of course. What was really bothering was Crichton hypocrisy: in the introduction he wrote about the misconceptions about Zaire (Congo) and Africa and its people, but before the page 50 he made all the misconceptions at least twice. That's shameful, really.

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Summary: An introduction to communication and animal behavior.
Review: An expedition in the Congo has disappeared and the disappearance appears to be associated with the attack of an unknown species of primates. A new expedition is sent to uncover the mystery. With this new expedition is a female gorilla who has been trained in sign language and can communicate with her trainers. In their search, the scientists find a famous lost and protected city. The science and technology described in the book is not difficult to understand or comprehend. Unfortunately, communication research with primates has not progressed as much as Dr. Crighton and primatologists would have liked since the publication of this book. Perhaps the next decade will prove to be more fruitful.

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Summary: A thriller
Review: Congo By MichaelCrichton

I read the book Congo by Michael Crichton. It is the best book that Michael Crichton ever wrote that is why I gave this book five stars. It is about a team of people who go looking for a giant ape like creature who lives deep in the jungles of Africa. The book has chills and thrills about their adventures in the Jungle of Africa.It is very sad in some parts where the team gets eaten by the ape. The book has a very good and strong plot with a very descriptive setting in the jungle.

If you like action adventure and suspense books with a little blood and gore in it then this is the book for you. I recommended this book because it is full of suspense and I really like action, adventure and/or suspense books and movies.

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Summary: A first rate story
Review: Dr. Crichton is very good at making his works of fiction seem real. His characters, especially those of Congo, are fully developed. Amy was a very interesting character. Go out and read this book, and avoid the movie at all costs.