Sphere

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Summary: One of the best books ever
Review: Crichotn did an awsome job with this book. He put a nice mixture of action and adventure in this book. I found this as being one of my favorite books ever!I would highly reccomend Sphere to anyone who likes action and adenture books.

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Summary: Probably the best by Michael Crichton
Review: Non-stop action that will keep you reading the book from page 1 till the last. Great book!

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Summary: An Awesome Book
Review: This book is amazing. I normally hate reading, but this is one of the few books I loved and enjoyed. I didnt event mind the length, which is even more unussual. I just saw the movie and the book is so much better. I would recomend this book to anyone who loves thrillers and sci-fi, although i'm not a big fan of sci-fi and i liked the book

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Summary: OK book. Interesting but not classic.
Review: I totally agree with some other reviewers. Interesting story, easy to read. Good. But characters are TOO apparent (or stereotypical?). I couldn't believe they were professional scientists or expert (even the navy peoples too). Being a scientist myself, they don't look like really trained scientific people. Just streotypical 'images' of scientists having many (stereotypical again) problems. Since I just finished it for the second time, I would say I enjoyed it but at many spots, I feel this was written somewhat amateurish. Maybe it was a mistake to read it with a book by Tom Clancy. Conslusion: Fascinating idea/story but a little disapointing writing.
*BTW, can a man move or swim at 1000 feet deep? No the pressure problem? I am curious, let me know.

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Summary: $THE BEST BOOK EVER!$
Review: Im to lazy right now to right a whole summary of this book, but this is the best (edited for languge) book ive ever read! And I dont like to read much. It took me 2 days i was so hooked. When i went skating with my buds, all i could think about was what was going to happen next! (of course i never landed any tricks with this on my mind.) If you die without reading this book. ( saythis fast, (Im sofa king we todd did!)

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Summary: Incredible Thriller
Review: Sphere is arguably Michael Chrichton's best book. Filled with incredible twists and turns, I had serious doubts the protaginists were going to make it. A definite homerun in the Sci-Fi/Psychological thriller department.

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Summary: Similar to the classic movie "Forbidden Planet"
Review: I was disapointed because I found the main element of the plot similar to the premise of the movie Forbidden Planet.

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Summary: I'm sorry but
Review: I'm sorry but that was one of Michael Crichton's worst books. The beginning had me hooked but the end was just stupid. I am also in the making of a book report on this book for English and i'm supposed to pretend i'm selling it but i wouldn't even try to if it wasn't for getting a good grade. The characters weren't very complex and kinda dumb. Norman sounded tired and an idiot the whole time. Beth was insane. Harry was just not there, he was supposed to be rude, smart, and sarcastic all the time but he was not. The ship was pretty cool but they thought the sphere was more important, which it was the point of the story but it was pretty boring. The Sphere really doesn't do anything, its all in Norman, Harry, and Beth's imagination that ends up coming true b/c the sphere shows them that part or power of their imagination to make things real.Oh well maybe its just me who didn't like it.

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Summary: Underwater adventure/psychodrama
Review: What is real and what is just a dream? Be on guard for mysterious events that may alter your perception of reality in this thriller. Crichton injects a fair amount of legitimate science (but unfortunately, along with the unrealistic picture of scuba diving at 1000 ft below sea level) into this intriguing story about the encounter between a team of scientists and an unseen alien named Jerry. Is Jerry a playful child or an entity with no understanding of human morality? How will anybody survive? This book is a must read and much better than the Sharon Stone/Dustin Hoffman movie.

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Summary: Sphere
Review: Michael Crichton's Sphere is a very intense book. The book has many technical terms and abbreviations that could make it very difficult at times to read. The conversations between characters is very interesting and really makes you think and try to form your own ideas. There are times in the book when it is very boring do to the technical terms and explanations. Then once you get into the book it starts to get very interesting and the conversations start to make you think. The book is very descriptive, which helps you to picture the characters and the surroundings. At first I didn't like the book because I thought it was very difficult to read. When I got more into the book it really started to get me think and picturing what was going on. I thought the main character Dr. Norman Johnson, a psychologist, was a very interesting character through out the whole book. I think without this character in the book it wouldn't have been as good. The other characters have such different opinions through out the whole book that it really help to have this character in the book to kind of help sort out the differing opinions. Even with the boring parts I found in the end that I really enjoyed this book it really makes you think. You really don't know what is going to happen next with the book there are many different twist to keep you interested even if you think you know what is going on in the book in the end it could turn out totally different then what you expected.