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Title: The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0-06-054181-4 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.23 (296 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A very good techno-thriller
Comment: "The Andromeda Strain" was Michael Crichton's first best-seller and set the stage for what was to come in his subsequent books: one-dimensional characters and an irresistable story. Crichton missed his true vocation; he should have been a high school science teacher. He has a rare gift for taking difficult and incomprehensible scientific topics and making them interesting and even fun for all us techno-dummies. "The Andromeda Strain" tells the story of a space capsule returning to earth bringing a very unwelcome hitch-hiker in the form of a microscopic organism that reproduces exponentially and acts out in all kinds of nasty ways. It's timely and topical and raises the age-old question, could it actually happen? As Crichton suggests, there may be all kinds of surprises, both pleasant and unpleasant, lurking out in deep space waiting to be brought back to Earth, and we had better be ready for them. The 58 references for further reading listed in the back of the book are probably meant to whet our interest further, although none of them are probably half as interesting as this book is. You turn the final page of Crichton's books feeling you've been both entertained and educated, which, flat characterizations and all, makes him so much fun to read.
Rating: 4
Summary: STUNNED
Comment: The Andromeda Strain by Micheal Crichton is an intense book about several scientists racing to eliminate deadly bacteria, which came from outer space. In some ways I see it as a horror because of its direct applications to real life, its believability. It doesn¡¦t infer any blame on the government, like a lot of biological thrillers do. Yet it does surmise the possibility of underground facilities in which the equipment is tech enough to handle many kinds of biological disaster, or outbreaks. The premise of the book was good and the action sequences were nail biting. Although there was a lot of dated components, old computers, methods, etc., I feel it still ran miles ahead of its time, for a book that was written in the 60s. I felt awfully empty when reading the parts of the book in which the town was described. It made me feel like I was going to die. The scientist that did the fieldwork wore these moon-suits with tube for oxygen bulging from the sides. The people they found were dead, when the veins were cut open on the corpses the blood rolled out like sand. But before they left, two brought along¡Xalive. All of these things were part of plot development and key to the book's clincher. The characters in the book were easy to identify with. They had families, personality flaws, and compassion. Characters, I feel, make or break a book¡¦s quality level. The Andromeda Strain is a good book to read if you¡¦re a fiction junky. It also tantalizes the intellectual, and entertains the novice.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent Read!
Comment: The Andromdeda Strain was the first Crichton book I ever read. I recieved it as a Christmas gift from my mother, but put it aside after reading a few pages. After taking an introductory college biology class, though, the story came alive for me; the real science Crichton incorporates into his writing gives it an air of credibility and reality that wouldn't let me set it down.
I love Crichton because his writing is so thought provoking. Even after the story ends happily, I was left with the haunting notion that extraterrestrial organisms could potentially wreak havoc on our fragile ecosystem. It could happen.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book for anybody with the science background necessary to digest it.
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Title: Sphere by MICHAEL CRICHTON ISBN: 0345353145 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 July, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0060092572 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Timeline by MICHAEL CRICHTON ISBN: 0345417623 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 24 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0345370775 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 13 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Airframe by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0345402871 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 28 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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