Sphere

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Summary: Good book once it's over
Review: The book was very well written, but the plot was a little advanced for the average reader. The way everything was the opposite of what it seemed often got more confusing then anything. but once it was over and everything was revealed it was a very well thought out and planned book.

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Summary: Sphere is just about the best book around.
Review: Sphere is a really great novel. But the book is about more than a ship on the bottom of the ocean. It also a book within itself. The main character is a pchycologist, and made money doing tests on people, measuring their reactions. Elevator emergencies, "dead" airplane pilots. Then he finds himself in similar type situations... but this time it's real. This book is about the mind. I don't know how Michael Crichton managed to piece together such a perfect book. Sometimes I wonder if he wrote it backwards.

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Summary: I could picture it so easily.
Review: This book is the best written book I have ever read. I can still se all the details of the book and I read it almost a year ago. I don't remember how much I enjoyed the story but the author created a wonderful picture and I could imagine everything. I think I liked it a lot because I read it for 15 hours striaght. I recomend it highly and you should look forward to reading it.

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Summary: The Best Book In The History of Sci-Fi Literature.
Review: I'm an avid reader; not only of Crichton, but of other authors as well. I've read more than a thousand books todate, but never have I enjoyed an estatic thriller such as Sphere. It is the best and surely my All-Time-Favourite. I LOVED IT!!! I've read the book 11 times, not because I don't understand it, but because of the chills it provides everytime that I enter the fourth section: The Power. I've recommended this book to all of my friends, even the ones who hate reading. The ones who have, cannot stop commending the doings of the book. Awesome, the best Crichton, the best Sci-Fi and my BEST book EVER!!!

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Summary: Sphere is a great read
Review: Sphere is an intense novel about the minds of people and what they can think of. I have recommended this book to 4 people. All of them had to finish the book before they put it down. Anybody who likes suspense will love this book.

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Summary: A brilliant idea with a dissapointing ending.
Review: The set-up is great! A space ship found at the bottom of the ocean that's been there for at least 300 years. But a variety of mysteries are just not dealt with and the ending leaves you with a "well, what the hell is that thing" looming.

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Summary: Not very interesting. It drags things on for hours.
Review: Sphere is one of the best ever written by Michael Crichton, but I think this book lacked a little. It has no definate plot. We understand why they are down there, what they found, and what happened after that, but each of the characters has so many theories, that everything is lost and we have no idea which is real or which one is the right one to believe. The plot was secure and interesting, but so many things were crammed into it. A mix of mathematics, biology, and psychology can work, but I thought there was too much there. And the process of picking off the humans one by one until there are only the main characters left? Please. The characters died in a sad and dumb way. All in all, It was okay as a novel, but it lacked when applied to the minds of the readers. It just seemed too easy. Everything seemed to fit into place exactly, to the point where you lose all sense of what was happening.

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Summary: Good plot, more action, a little confusing.
Review: One of Crichton's best! Indeed worth making a movie about! You should enjoy this wonderful book!

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Summary: Great book but its a bit to long
Review: The book is a good book but it gets to be a litle boring in the middle and the end isent exactly a big thriller. Its plot is fairly complicated so dont read it if your not at least on a 12 grade reading level. It is also graphic and contains swaring.

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Summary: new sphere found in ocean
Review: This was not one of my more favorite Crichton books. There was acctually to much detail in this novel. Although the action was intense in some parts of the book. Over all I would have to say tha I did not enjoy it that much.