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Summary: a very dull book
Review: the following book by the master of sci-fi was wonderful to begin with .but in the second half it was very dull. I found the story anti-climactic
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Summary: 2nd best crichton ever
Review: Next ot timeline, this is the best book i've ever read. the humor, the technology, the heat of passion, it makes a great book. i'd buy it for the world if i had the money. everybody needs to read this book.
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Summary: Excellent storytelling.
Review: This book was great. When I started it I expected to just be average, but Michael Crichton surprised me again. I wouldn't figure that someone who could write about science fiction and dinosaurs would be able to tell a story about sexual harassment, but he showed he was not only knowledgeable in that field but also in the technical computer issues that DigiCom was dealing with. This book starts off a little slow, but about 25 pages in it starts getting very interesting and hard to put down. If you can put up with 25 pages of slow reading you will be greatly rewarded by this book. This is one book that changes the way you look at things.
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Summary: Pretty boring.
Review: As a Crichton fan, and will remain one as long as I live, this book was a little disappointing. Boring would be the word, actually. I much more like the Jurassic Park, Sphere, Timeline Crichton better than this style. It hardly has any technological "stuff". (Technologically impaired here) Although it is interesting. The story was something more John Grisham-ish. If you like these sorts of books, more power to you and have a blast, but if you don't, I wouldn't recommend it.
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Summary: watch the movie instead
Review: a bad book from a good writer.tom sanders works at a computer company where he gets sexually harassed by his ex-lover,now his boss,.nobody believes that he got harassed by a woman and the drama unfolds.he sues her and blah,blah,blah.not a good book.
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Summary: Overall an interesting story
Review: I feel that after finishing this book, I can say that it was satisfying but I felt, at the same time, that I am reading something that is a story made from an issue that has two sides.Basically, If you have read other Chrichton books, you will like this one unless you are technically oriented and read Chrichton for all the scientifical information. But, from a casual reading standpoint, this book might be ok. I think that some of the characters in this book are very believable, and at times, this book seems like a real story, which means the author is very good when it comes to story telling. Meredith, the center of all the commotion, seems to me as a frightening character. I say this because she is so smart and yet excels business-wise, gaining admiration and also brewing up some rather sneaky plots herself. I feel that Chrichton brings her into the book very well, and she fits right into the whole plot. Read this book if you are interested in the summary that Amazon gives you, but otherwise I think you might still need to find out what the deal is. And disregard the movie if you haven't seen it, for I've heard it exaggerates some points. After you read the book, maybe then think about the movie.
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Summary: BY FAR MY FAVORITE CRICHTON
Review: I have read every Crichton book there is, and Disclosure was last but not least. Usually, I can't read a book in one night or a day or two. I will read consistently every night and finish the book in a week or two. However, Disclosure was finished in about a day and a half- very fast for me. The book kept my interest more than any other Crichton, more than any other book for that matter! Crichton made it really easy to hate the enemies of the book and love the heroes. A must read? YES!
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Summary: 3rd Best
Review: This book to me is the thierd best of Michael Crichton's books. I love this book becuse it tells information that u would want to here,the people that is in the book, and just how Mr.Crichton writes it.
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Summary: Ludicrous presentation of sexual harassment issue
Review: Michael Crichton writes page-turner novels that are always easy to read and hard to put down. In this book, he takes on one of the significant workplace issues of the last decade, sexual harrasment in the major corporation. So far, so good. However, Crichton falls flat by attempting to make his point about how "complex" this issue is by presenting a role reversal situation in which a one-dimensionally ambitious and ruthless female executive all but rapes a male underling. He claims he is doing this in order to be more thought-provoking, but I don't believe this. The situation he presents is highly dubious, and overall the stolid corporate-teckie as "good guy" and the female she-devil as "bad girl" theme is calculated to appeal to a target audience of wonk-male corporate drones who resent the sometimes-unfair consequences of current affirmative action policies favoring women. Certainly it's *possible* that a Meredith Johnson could perform the dastardly deeds depicted in the novel, but if Critchton wanted to write a book that showed the everyday realities of sexual harassment in corporate America, he would have built his plot around female workers being harassed by men, as this is far and away the most typical manifestation of this problem. All in all, the plot is lively and snappy, but the characters are cardboard and the theme not terribly credible.
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Summary: One of Crichtons Best!
Review: I read this some time ago when it first came and anticipated the film (which was highly disappointing). Crichtons mystery novel in the world of business and computers and sexual harassment. Tom Sanders who works for a computer company, when an old friend, female friend, comes into play as his boss. She lays down the laws that eventually work against him in this great thriller that I found a vary hard book to put down. Well written, easy and informative as well, which makes Crichton so intriguing is his factual knowledge he places within the context of the fictional world. Reccomended for mystery lovers, and those on the trail of reading Crichton.
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