Sphere

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Summary: I have to agree with the ending.
Review: A fine, fine story. Action packed and full of mystery. I must agree with the fact put forward by so many, the ending was a little weak. However I didn't let it bother me hardly as much as anyone else. If the ending is sooo bad that nothing else in the book mattered, well, I must have missed something written between the lines. The plot is well developed and the moral definatly proven. And if the book is THAT bad, well, try writing your own ending. I's not quite as easy as you think. Thank you. B.A.F.

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Summary: Very good but lacks real depth.
Review: As my first Crichton book, it was pleasure to realize what this popular author had already offered to other readers. A good book. There story is semi-original, but facinating and intruiging. There were a couple of things that were not fully developed in the story, though. Namely the actual extent of power the Power really had upon the real world. If Norman really posessed this omnipotent power, why didn't he just imagine that none of the accidents had occured and imagine that all of them(the entire crew) was alive and well on board a cruiser. The Power was not fully developed. And neither was the story of the Future ship. What happened to the crew? Was there a crew? Perhaps Crichton didn't include that for fear it would only lure the concentration on the sphere away. But, it would have been fulfilling to know what the ship's story was. Also regarding the ship, at the end of the book, when they imagined all the knowledge of the sphere away, wouldn't the US government just find it again? All and all, Sphere was a fun ride that lacked a good, complete close

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Summary: This book is an exiting sci-fi thriller for all readers
Review: This book has everything needed to make agreat sci-fi thriller, suspece will drive crazy to find out what is going on. However, this book has so many twists and turns in the plot you will go crazy until you get to the end, but this still doesn't change the fact that this book is written in great way and is very interesting, you wont be able to put the book down. Another plus to this book are the scientific fact that are in the book that can help you learn a lot of information you never knew, like in all the other Michael Crichton books. Since this book is soon to be major motion picture I advise you to read the book before the you see the movie. This book is made for everyone who loves sci-fi and action books. This book will keep you readoing until you finish, I finished the book in 3 days and I enjoyed it very much.

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Summary: If you like Sci-Fi Action books or movies read Sphere!!!!!
Review: Sphere is the best book on or off of this planet! If you like Science Fiction adventures this is THE book you are looking for! Michael should DEFINATLY write a sequal to this hit! I liked every second of the book from the first page to the last. The ending may not be what you expect but it is a very good ending! And throughout the book it feels like you are actually there with all the characters! You can picture so clearly what everything looks like. The Sphere movie is coming out this christmas too, hopefully nothing will be changed differently from the book. But I dont know why everyone keeps saying the ending isnt very good! Infact the ending hints to a possible sequal to a Sphere 2! And that is a good ending

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Summary: Great book, though ending a little weak
Review: Great book. I read it in two days. I loved every minute ofit, though the ending was a little weak, though as someone else said,it may have been left that way. He really left it open for a sequel.

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Summary: Michael Crichton's best, Now and forever!!!!
Review: I'm only 11 and Sphere is the best book I've read. The endingwas wierd but I loved the Book! Three cheers for Michael.

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Summary: by far my favorite book by Crichton
Review: Sphere has me up till one in the morning, covered in cold sweat and hoping my flashlight batteries wouldn't go dead until I finished it. The plot takes control of your mind and makes you keep reading it, so you can't stop even it you want to. Everything is worked out perfectly, the ship, the hole the spere, the power, so you don't have to contemplate it, just read it. Much better then his other novels that could get a little boring (But I liked them anyway), this one will keep you feeling like you are done their. I sure hope he rights a sequel

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Summary: A Must-Read, Exciting Thriller - Until the END...
Review: I bought this book and put it up on the shelf for awhile. One afternoon, I casually picked it up, and opened to a page as I sometimes do. Hooked, I read from that point until the end without having read the beginning. It was engrossing. It was thrilling. It was scary. Until I got to the end. Then, Michael Crichton did something he has never done before: he RUINED the end!!! I won't say what the ending is because it is still a shock, but you will see if you read it. Okay, I exaggerated a bit I guess. It was not ruined, but it was spoiled. It could have been a much better book IF he had used a different ending - keeping the extraterrestrial premise and going with it. The mental power plot could still have worked if the entire thing with the lovable and deadly alien Jerry had not been IMAGINED. It made me mad! But this is STILL a good thriller and a worthy read, and the upcoming movie should be fun

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Summary: Spectacular!!!
Review: A team of scientists are shipped down to what the navy thinks,is an alien spacecraft, what they find is beyond their wildestimaginations, they find the Sphere...A very powerful but also mortally dangerous item! Sphere adds a mix between science fiction and science in a breath-holding way, I read the sphere and I finished it the same day, you just can't stop reading! Great book!

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Summary: Excellent
Review: Absolutely the best book I've ever read of his. One of myfavorite books of all times.