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Summary: Sci-fi at its best!
Review: Terriffic book by Michael Crichton about an investigation of a new deadly virius. Very interesting and suspensful. I definately enjoyed it! Also, I recommend reading this book before you see the movie.
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Summary: this was a pretty good book
Review: The Andromeda Strain is kind of wierd. Sometimes it seemed like it just dragged on and on. The old guy was funny when he was telling Mark Hall that he could do what he wanted because he's old. The ending was very dissapointing. Overall it was worth reading but not the best book you can get.
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Summary: Um...huh?
Review: Sigh. I'm getting a little exasperated with Michael Crichton. I have read some of his books and they're on my top 20 favorite books list, but some are just plain dull, or, like this one, confusing. I am in the middle of this book and I have to say-I am absolutely clueless to what is going on. I read all the summaries-on the back of the book, on the Internet, reviews and all and it seems like a simple concept, but I am so confused and ignorant to what is going on, I feel like I'm going to scream! I AM just going into 8th grade this year, it probably has something to do with knowledge of all these scientific facts, but still-you'd think I'd understand SOMETHING. I only understand when there is dialogue and I liked the part where Mark Hall gets totally "clean" and disinfected by all these antibacterial tests, but other than that, I'm dead bored. I feel stupid for not understanding anything and am getting frustrated with myself and with the book for not explaining anything. In the acknowledgments, Michael Crichton says, "...if the reader must occasionally struggle through an arid passage of technical detail, I apologize." OCCASIONALLY? A PASSAGE? It's more like CONSTANTLY struggling through PAGES of technical detail! "Sphere", "Jurassic Park", "Disclosure", "Lost World", those were all great, but this was like AAAHHHH!!! Since I don't want to give Michael Crichton another one star rating (I gave him one star on "The Great Train Robbery"), I'll give him two for the occasional relief with some dialogue. I'm reading "Congo" next-I hope it's not like this one.
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Summary: The Andromeda Strain
Review: It is a thoughtful, well-planned out book that obviously showcases Michael Crichton's knowledge of biology. It is a gripping thriller, that deserves much praise.
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Summary: Hard to Comprehend, Easy to Understand
Review: This isn't my first Michael Crichton book, but i think it's the best. I've read Jurassic Park, and the Lost World before this, and they were fairly good. But this book topped both of them. It was assigned summer reading for me this year, and i thought, "Oh great, another boring book that i have to read." But when i started reading it, I found myself reading for 2 hours just striving to complete the next chapter.(I'm a slow reader) The words that he uses are sometimes hard to read, and i pulled out a dictionary for all the ones that i couldn't figure out. I don't really like reading books, but this book has changed my mind on reading. It was so suspenseful in the end that i found i chewed my fingernails down to stubs when i finished reading. Anyone who loves suspense will be over powered by the amount of it generated by this book.
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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: I thought this book was way ahead of it's time and fairly interesting. The idea that a disease as deadly as the 'andromeda strain' is very unsettling. 'The Andromeda Strain' is also very realistic and it doesn't seem that unlikely to me. But it seems like I hardly knew anything about the main characters. They were sort of mysterious in regards to their background. They told what they did and where they were from but he didn't really help me to know them real well like in his other books. It was also a little boring at times. But besides those problems it was a greaet book.
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Summary: Michael Crichton
Review: When I read words from Michael Crichton, I can visualize them all. I imagine visually the entire story. His stories are technical and flowing. This book is highly recommended. I won't bother to tell you about the book because you should read without knowing to make it more exciting. This book is for techincal thinkers who can visualize.
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Summary: Way ahead of its time
Review: This is the first Crichton book that I ever read. The book is a thrilling account of the introduction of a space-borne bacteria into the earths atmosphere. The bacteria wipes everyone in a small town except a drunk and a crying baby. The book is a life-like account of what the scientists found, how they tried to find what the bacteria is, why these two people survived, and how do they find a cure. I felt the fictional technology was incredible by todays standards, much less in 1969 when this book was originally copywrited.As an Engineer, I found this book absolutely awsome. The way the book was written in general was excellent. They way the story was layed out for the reader made it so that I never wanted to put it down. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes science/science fiction based work.
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Summary: A Classic!
Review: Michael Crichton's first novel is one of his best, setting in stone the pattern that he continues to follow to this day, and for one reason: it works. Yes, this novel masterfully intertwines science fact and science fiction, and in turn gives us, the reader, a great book of suspense. It is written in such documentary fashion that you have to convince yourself that you're not reading out of a history book (well, not really, but...). Yeah, it can get quite technical at times, but it still appeals to a wide audience because of it's excellent plot. Also, this book has something that you rarely see in sci-fi: an author going against the alien stereotype. Are you tired of seeing the cliche'd "little green men" or "E.T. ripoffs"? Well, then this book is for you. One of it's subthemes is that we really have no idea what aliens look like, in fact, they may be mere bacteria! Or, maybe not so "mere" as Stone and his team find out...
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Summary: Not terrifying, but good suspense
Review: I figured I would try to get into reading some of Michael Crichton's novels so I started with "The Andromeda Strain". It seemed it would be a frightening story of a satellite that fell to earth accidentally and carried with it a deadly virus that wreaked havoc across the nation. More or less it was an isolated case of scientists and doctors trying to figure out what happened in small town Arizona. It never seemed to evolve into the hair raising story I wanted it to be, but it was a good book nontheless.
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