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Summary: Undeniably Astounding
Review: For all the Crighton fans, this is a must read. Many may look at this as an old archive of a tale, but to us that have been loyal Crichton fans since the beginning, it is one of his finest pieces.The action in this novel is non-stop, as we have learned to expect from Crichton novels. As I became more and more involved with the plot, my mind could not help but imagine that this very same story line could have happened in real life. The sequence of mishaps keep your eyes glued to the page.
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Summary: A good book, but too much futuristic stuff in the weird lab
Review: I liked this book a lot. It was a fairly good(and fast) read. It was not as good as The Lost World, though.
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Summary: INCREDIBLE!!!!!
Review: i couldn't put the book down!!! Excellent plot!!! Read it in a 2 days. Highly recommended!!!
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Summary: It was a pretty good book.
Review: This book was a pretty good. It wasn't as good as Congo or Lost World, but it was okay. At many points it'll be just a lot of techno-babble, but once you get past those parts you'll find it very suspensefull. Of course it won't get as thrilling as Jurassic Park, but it will keep you interested. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone with short atention spans.
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Summary: Reading should be entertaining, not homework
Review: If you're familiar with Mr. Crichton's more recent string of hits, you should instantly divine that this was an effort of long ago. One of his first novels, in fact, if I'm not mistaken, Mr. Crichton's premise for a biological Apocalypse shuffles along at a snail's pace. What could've been a truly zip-along read is plagued and ultimately bogged down with interminable sequences of 'faction.' Understanding why the long passages of facts are present does not counteract their tedious and painstakingly detailed drone. The flip-side of this, however, is that The Andromeda Strain is a powerful science document. Unfortunately, it exhibits little else. Bottom line: A nice effort from a fledgling writer; Mr. Crichton has matured remarkably throughout the advancement of his career.
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Summary: Very good, but not his best.
Review: I am a very big fan of Crichton, and I think that his books are great, but on his scale this is not his best. It's just a bit too technical. I mean, unless you're a bioligy fan, it's not very intreresting to read pages over pages of tables. But, it's crichton, so read it! Dassi.
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Summary: Delicious
Review: If you are a recovering fingernail chewer, don't read this book. You will chomp down to the stubs. This is one of my favorites, and it really happened-- unless I'm mistaken, this is based on a true story which makes it even more suspensful. kicker of a book.
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Summary: Read Crichton before Crichton was Crichton.
Review: These days, Michael Crichton is (along with John Grisham) synonomous with literary cheese. So it's good to go back and see exactly why he became a superstar author in the first place. I've read most of Crichton books and I have never much cared for them, but this book is different. The Andromeda Strain, Crichton's first novel, is quite simply the best thing he has ever written, a classic of solid science fiction. It is a masterpiece of suspense and attention to detail, about a showdown with an alien disease that provides an eery precursor to modern biological boogeymen like the Ebola virus. Even some 25 years after it was written, it still seems fresh. Highly recommended, even for people (like me) who don't like Crichton's other work.
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Summary: Very Good, lots of suspense
Review: A Very good book. A satellite crashes in a small town and kills everybody in the town. Only two people survive and its a race against the clock to find a cure or treatment. A very interesting book. I recommend it.
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Summary: Good Minipulation and Analysis
Review: Michael Crichton has been know for several of his works and just about everyone of them have grown tremendously popular... is The Andromeda Strain any different? No. This book is not only good surface reading, but it is good analytical reading as well. Andromeda comes from the Greek Myth about Madusa, the Gorgon sister who turns everything to stone with her hedious looks... so goes the victoms of the bacterial desease, Andromeda Strain: every victim dies by the clotting, or hardening, of blood. Michael Crichton was trying to point out that mankind is reliying too much on technology and technology is 100% perfectwhich is deduced when almost every mechine doesn't get what it's suppose to done the first time) Mr. Crichton is also trying to point out man's niave nature... how he suspects he knows all, but when it comes down to it: man is only gifted with limited knowledge. There are many more points to figure out... but i would simply ruin the reading if I were to tell... but this book is definitely one for an expierenced reader as well as a sensationalist reader. =)
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