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Summary: Amazing
Review: You have to read it to find out. Sure, it does have a lot of techie mumbo-jumbo, but little that is not explained and which adds to the overall feel of the story. A fantastic novel.
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Summary: Psychological Thriller Bends Reality for its Reader
Review: You will wonder whether this book is fact or fable, fiction or non-fiction. The narrative is crafted in such a way as to make it sound like an historical accounting. It had me believing that this book is a tale of a well-covered up conspiracy of decades past. Crichton's style is so clever that it has your head going in a circle, but you will love mulling over the possibilities. First rate in suspense too! If you like the historical-fiction of this book, then try "Eaters of the Dead!"
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Summary: My favorite Crichton book
Review: This was my first Michael Crichton book and so far it has remained my favorite. That's probably a little disconcerting to Mr. Crichton as I'm sure he would like to hear that he's only gotten better with age but what're you gonna do? It's a story that reads like a true account of a biological nightmare. A satelite has crashed back to earth while caring a new biological entity that kills most people instantly. 5 scientists have the dangerous mission of understanding/containing/curing/ this new strain. As with most Crichton books the reader is always thrown the ocassional techno/scientific bone -- just enough to whet your appetite and point you towards further reading. Highly recomended for anyone who appreciates a well written thriller. It's no Nietzsche but it's damn good entertainment.
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Summary: If you love science & medicine you'll like this book
Review: I found the concepts fascinating & couldn't wait to find out what was causing the terrible problems & how the scientists could put a stop to it! The bad part is - the ending was a major fizzle. I was sooo disappointed in the ending. I felt cheated!
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Summary: THE FIRST, BEST AND GREATEST BUG BOOK EVER!!!
Review: Michael Crichton wrote this the best bug book ever!! This classic thriller is still as disconcerting today as it was 30 years ago. If you like bug books, you will love this Crichton classic.
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Summary: alien germs-- obviously from a med graduate
Review: Whoa! This is one freaky book. Not scary, just freaky. Great plot too. I'll sum it up: somebody brings down an alien germ, which crystalizes blood as soon as you inhale it. Soon it begins to mutate, and a team of doctors and scientists must find a way to stop it. Great book!
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Summary: One of Crichton's best
Review: Andromeda Strain is one of Crichton's best fictions novels for one simple reason. It's so simple. Simplicity in the fact that the threat is not huge dinosaurs, crazy monkeys or giant squids. The threat is a single celled organism called bacteria. Andromeda Strain is about project wildfire, a group and project organized to prevent/contain alien bacteria. Most scientists today believe that there may be life on other planets, but most agree those life forms would not be multiple cell and complex organisms, they would be single celled bacteria. Well here it comes to life, and the truth can be scary. A satellite has crashed near a small town in Arizona, and the townspeople, looking for something exciting retrieve at bring it back to town. Little do they know that they have now invited an alien bacteria to invade and experiment with live human bodies. What, I ask, can kill an entire town, causing some to hemorrhage, others to go crazy, filling there mouths with modeling cement, and yet leave two people alive. So what does a little baby and a drunken man with a failing liver have in common? That is what Project Wildfire must find out, before this deadly bacteria is exposed to the entire human population!
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Summary: Great Book, a basis for Bio-terrorism
Review: This is a great book about the incredible powers that little bacterial organisms can have over us. In a war of one cell organsims against complex and multiple cell organisms, we find a struggle that will end all struggles. Only to find out that we are not as adaptive as we think... A satellite falls from it's orbit and lands near a small town in Arizona, the people of the town decide that they need to recover it and find out exactly what it was. Little do they know that the government located the downed satellite. When the government sends a team out to recover the downed satellite they find that the city has died, except for two survivors. Project Wildfire is called in to find out what happened to the city and it's inhabitants. Medical doctors, chemists and other doctors are called in to find out what did this. Their only chance is to find out what a little baby and an old drunk, with a failing liver have in common. If they fail then the world might suffer the same fate as the those that died in the town.
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Summary: andromeda strain
Review: This book was OK, but I've read better. It was too technical for me. I like the technical stuff somewhat, but there was too much of it here. I was wondering throughout the whole book "OK, thats neat, but when are they gonna blow something up"? I reccomend it if you REALLY like Chrichton(sp?).
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Summary: Strain Relief
Review: This book is the best, and I could never put it down! It describes the search for an organism that is killing people. The way Crichton portrays all of his characters is magnificent, which is why I really connected with this book. I felt as if I was the missing scientist from the team! I sincerely liked the way Crichton concealed the identity of the person who deciphered the mystery. I genuinely enjoyed reading about the long hours spent down in Level V of the Wildfire base. This is where Hall took care of Mr. Jackson and the baby, where Burton performed his autopsies, and where Stone and Leavitt worked on finding the organism. The other part I thoroughly enjoyed was reading about Burton and Stone while they were in Piedmont, looking for the satellite. What they found was so startling, that you hardly new what to expect next. I really believe you should buy this book, because it is such a wonderful scientific mystery!
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