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Summary: Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the vainest of them all?
Review: This mixture of science fiction and horror is really a psychodrama, set 1000 feet below the ocean surface. A team of intrepid scientists is assembled by the US Navy to explore an alien spaceship found in the Pacific. Although we don't entirely solve the riddle about where the ship came from, we do find an incredible sphere inside it, which changes the lives of the scientists. Who can you trust? What is real and what is only imagined? What is reality? These are all questions thrust at our protagonist, an overweight psychologist struggling to keep pace with the other intellectual giants. This book should be made into a movie - not the one with Dustin Hoffman and Sharon Stone - but one faithful to the text. It keeps the reader's attention. Michael Crichton deserves kudos for doing his homework on it, as well. His scientific descriptions are believable, for the most part.
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Summary: Cricton strikes agian w/ non-stop action.
Review: Sphere is a non stop action thriller. Chricton's wonderful imagination goes all out. The book has a very suspensful plot. You want to keep reading and reading. The book starts out with the search for a crashed plan, but turns into something much different. They charcters find them self dealing with some unknown force that they must find some way to combat. A wonderfully written book that even the non sci-fi fan can enjoy.
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Summary: Awesome book
Review: After seeing the movie Sphere I was extremely discouraged about reading the book, but then after reading some the the reviews from here and heard the the book was nothing like the movie, I decided the give it a try, and I did, and I loved it, from beginning to the end. I was kind of dissapointed from watching the movie because I new the book would end the same, but still, the book was awesome, its nothing like the movie. I'd have to say the movie was a disgrace to Michael Crichton and to the story of Sphere. If you've never read a Michael Crichton book then you should definitely read this one.
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Summary: Great read! You'll be on the edge...
Review: The beginning gets you interested and makes you keep reading. Once they find out what the 'Thing' is and where 'it' is from you will be hooked. Also, them being on the ocean floor with nowhere to run and hide makes it even better!
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Summary: Good read, but...
Review: I'm definitely in the minority here. While I love Michael Crichton's books, this was my least favorite. A team of experts from various fields are pulled together and assembled to investigate what appears to be an alien spacecraft on the bottom of the ocean. The plot thickens as several crew members mysteriously die, one at a time, before those who are left figure out that they are responsible. It is a suspenseful and riveting read. I just felt that sometimes it is a little too cerebral and far fetched, at the same time.
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Summary: Awe, terror, and suspense - a perfect summertime sci-fi read
Review: Sphere, with its ocean depth setting, is the perfect summertime beach read. Although Crichton's feather light prose does have difficulty with the character development and set-up, once the action takes over it moves at a gallop, contains a number of sweep the rug out from under you twists, and more than a few Jaws type thrills. This all question and no answer concept potpourri contains everything but the kitchen sink and, in the reading, would seem to be the basis for a great movie. But, as with Congo, such was not the case. Recommended to aquatic thriller fans.
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Summary: Almost a horror story
Review: Sphere has to be one of Crichton's most suspenseful books ever written. Not only is it an interesting paradox, moral dilema and struggle for power, but it takes on a very complex and destructive plot. In my opinion this book almost had to be written starting from the middle or climax of the story, and then working it's way back. There are so many details that had to be worked out to make everything fit together. "Sphere" takes place at the bottom of the pacific ocean, where a spacecraft has been discovered. A team of scientist has been summoned to explore and discover whatever they can about what has happened. During their search of the ship they find an enormous shimmering sphere, and a time log of what appears to be a human spaceship. The most incredible thing is that the time log is from the year 2043...
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Summary: The worst is yet to come.
Review: The title of this book says it all, "SPHERE," one of the most intriguing books I have ever read. Taking the reader for an in depth experience of the underwater world. The characters in this story are sent to investigate a sphere said to be 300 hundred years old, an untouched spacecraft made before airplanes, where their world turns topsy turvy, lives are lost by a light, a mysterious breach into the minds of Homo sapiens that one day we may perfect, if we ever do. Just when things couldn't get worst the adventure just began.
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Summary: Perfect
Review: For those of you who have seen the movie and dont like it. Read the book anyway. The concept is:In the south pacific or somewhere near it, a vessel is resting on the ocean floor. It has crash-landed in the ocean. A group of American scientists are then sent to investigate this vessel. That's all I can tell you. Michael's best. This was a real page-turner, and the ending was so suspense, I prayed that they were gonna make it. The scientific evidense is amazing. No problems with this book, it was superbly planned out. ENJOY!
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Summary: Wow. . .just amazing.
Review: Micheal Crichton is possibly the best writer in the world. This book is amazing. I picked up a copy and wasn't able to put it down; managing to lose several hours of sleep and fail a geometry test. The setting, plot, and characters are some of the best in any novel. Sphere has a lot of great suspense, and it kept me guessing about things that would happen to the crew; only to be surprised with a shocking event. This is a MUST for any reader. Your not going to be able to put it down.
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