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Summary: so what now?
Review: the book is really great! but what about the end? did crichton run out of paper? it's a pitty he did not finish his great story properly.
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Summary: Very scientific making it interesting
Review: "The Andromeda Strain", by Michel Crichton portrays the trials to control a lethal contamination brought to Earth by a government satallite. The satellite crashed in a small town in Arizona. The contamination it contained, the Andromeda Strain, kills all its inhabitants except for an old man and a baby. A group of elite scientist are assigned to project Wildfire to find a cure for the deadly strain. The scientists discover that the strain is a living crystal that uses everything and wastes nothing, in addition it can thrive in any material known to man. In an attempt to eradicate the strain, the president or the US orders a nuclear weapon to be detonated in the area of contamination. The scientitst must then race to find the cure for the strain.This scientific point of view defines the way the book is developed. The book contains somewhat extensive and sometimes drawn-out descriptions of scientific fact. These descriptions add greatly to the believability of the book, while they consume so much of its content that there is little room for action or character development. The book could almost be considered a technical manual on biology and viruses rather than a fictitious work. Despite its extensive explanations of scientific fact, it will leave the reader questioning the reason of many of its events. Overall, this book will satisfy one's scientific mind while the general plot is somewhat simple and ends very abruptly. A reader is likely to finish feeling little closure, which could very well be the intention of the author to add suspense, and define the theme.
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Summary: EXCELLENT BOOK!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I would recommend this book to everyone out there. This book is great and I never read a book anything like this before. I truly recommend it to all the readers out there
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Summary: A suspenseful story with surprises around every corner.
Review: The ANDROMEDA STRAIN is one of Crichtons best. It is very exciting and makes you think about how scary being sick can be. It is about a small town called Peidmont in Arizona. A government satlelite lands there and is opened. Inside is an unknown terestrial virus from space. The virus is taken isolated and contained while the government biological wildfire project is executed. But the virus mutates and then the real danger starts. The ANDROMEDAN STRAIN is an interesting novel from the author of JURRASIC PARK.
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Summary: Excelent Book
Review: I absolutly couldn't put it down. I started reading it at night and didn't go to sleep until I finished it.
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Summary: Unbelievable book! Awesome!
Review: The Andromeda Strain is an excellent book. Michael Crichton's best work. He has a lot of good books, this one is different though. Because the stuff that happened in The Andromeda Strain could actually happen to man kind. And what then? Sphere and The Andromeda Strain are neck and neck for Crichton's best work. And i still haven't even said anythin about The Terminal Man or Airframe which are two more great Crichton novels. Crichton and Stephen King rule. The Andromeda Strain rules. When you're done reading it it leaves you with the question: Are we safe?
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Summary: Terrific Thriller! By far Crichton's best!
Review: The Andromeda Stain is by far the best book I have ever read. I seems so far fetched but yet is so close to earth.
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Summary: A bacterial strain breakes loose and is startling deadly.
Review: A deadly strain from a goverment project has the power to kill some one in a matter of seconds. The strain was conntand in a goverment istalation were they discover something amazing.
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Crichton Way Ahead of His Time
Review: Michael Crichton must be a psychic. Thirty years before researchers discovered the effects of microorganisms, Crichton predicted a virus just as deadly. The Andromeda Strain is a classic, terrifying novel of biophysics. The way Crichton combines facts and fiction results in a masterpiece. With the exception of some intense scientific vocabulary, the descriptive language used by Crichton in this novel is brilliant. When an unmanned satellite returns to earth lethally contaminated, four American scientists are ordered to a secret lab to work against the threat of a worldwide epidemic. There are no villains in this novel - only the microscopic organisms of earth's extinction. This is a perfect story line, written with immense detail. Crichton does a superb job of setting the scene and describing the characters. He leaves his reader not wanting to stop, having great cliffhangers at the end of each chapter. The suspense builds inevitably to a heart-stopping conclusion. It is an intelligent and tightly plotted suspense-thriller. Many of Crichton's works masterfully combine fact and fiction. The Andromeda Strain is no exception as the scientific elements are expertly interwoven with the fictional world of underground laboratories and secret agents. Crichton's facts about bacteria and viruses are right on - he goes as far as using quotes from professors and scientists as well as diagrams to support his arguments. When he switches to fictional mode, Crichton does not lose a step. His theories about government testing grounds and secret government projects, written thirty years prior, do not seem at all unrealistic in today's high-tech world. Although the novel grabs the reader's attention from the very first page with its crisp prose, there are some minor impediments in that this is a highly technical narrative, centering on complex issues of science. Even Crichton, in his acknowledgments preceding the novel, apologizes "...if the reader must occasionally struggle through an arid passage of technical detail." Fortunately, Crichton was also able to mix up his writing style. Here is an example of a beautifully written verse: "He often argued that human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable." This passage clearly shows how diverse Crichton can be in his writing. The metaphors he uses fit perfectly with the plot of the story at the time this passage is used. Crichton constantly switches from technical to figurative language as if to cater his novel to all of his readers.
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Summary: excellent
Review: This book grabbed my attention from the first page. Chrichton's prose is crisp and unaffected, the scientific elements are expertly interwoven and the suspense builds inexorably to a heartstopping conclusion. It's just an intelligent and tightly plotted thriller, Chrichton's best work by far. Read it or die of the lurgi!
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