The Andromeda Strain

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Summary: Great Crichton Thrller!!!
Review: Exciting, suspense,and action just like a novel should be. Michael Crichton excells at story-telling.

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Summary: Michael Crichton - From peak to poop
Review: Michael Crichton has written two great books and one really good one. They are, in order of their appearance, Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery and Congo. Having produced these, all of which were made into movies of greater or lesser mediocrity, Crichton started writing screen plays, among them, Jurassic Park (I may vomit), Lost Whateverthehellitwas (barf), and Disclosure (double barf, surely one of the worst books ever written). Andromeda Strain is a great piece of work - feasible to a non-scientist who couldn't care less whether a microbe like this could exist in fact, but constituted a very real threat in the world of fiction. Personally, I read this book twice in 24 hours (the only other one was Silence of the Lambs), and reread it with some regularity. Its really too bad that this represents the peak of a writing career for a skilled author with immense potential who tragically sold out to the Hollywood scenario.

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Summary: great medical fiction
Review: each of the characters is a key to the story, which is presented in a well thought out manner. the action is shown in a way so that it seems real, which really helps out the action in the story.

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Summary: Who would study medicine to become an Author?
Review: As a high school student I would challenge my instructors about isuses raised in this tome, I got no significant responces and carried the book for years. Probably the only book I have read a dozen times, fiction does cause you to suspend reality.

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Summary: The Greatest!
Review: This is one of the best books I've ever read! A first for Crichton!

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Summary: This book is probably one of the best books by Crichton
Review: Andromeda Strain is a suspenseful book about an unknown bacteria found in a satellite that crashed back to earth. A very interesting novel about how scientists would deal with this strange and new bacteria. A subject little written about.

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Summary: A Crichton Classic
Review: Great book if you like the "Crichton Style". Here you will find the classic plot of an unknown menace threating the human race, and a group of brilliant scientists trying to stop it. Even though the story looks a lot like other books from the author (take for example Jurassic Park), it's very entertaining and will keep you reading it until the last page.

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Summary: Good book, not his best
Review: I must admit that when I read this I was already spoiled by Crichton's later books, which were great (Jurassic Park, Sphere, Congo). Its a good book, but definately not his best.

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Summary: Awesome medical thriller
Review: Crichton executes his trademark ability in writing killer fiction with a touch of page-turning suspense...here, he narrates the efforts of a team of scientists who strive to overcome an alien virus' attempt for destruction. I usually find it difficult to finish novels but when I began reading this thriller masterpiece, there's no putting it down. I've been a fan of (medical) suspense thrillers but this has been my favorite

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Summary: A teenagers dream of a book.
Review: As a 10th grader reading this title for summer reading I found myself fourced into a corner. I don't enjoy reading. It isn't something I find enjoyable, but this title was something different. Unlike "The Hot Zone" this title combines the concepts of outerspace and life on earth. The author brings to mind the thought of life from outside of earth, living on earth as our most hostile virus. Thoughs that believe that we are alone in this universe are mistaken and are in for a big suprise