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Title: Sphere by Michael Crichton, Edward Asner ISBN: 0553702327 Publisher: Bantam Books-Audio Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45
Rating: 5
Summary: Pushing buttons at the console-321
Comment: I read Sphere and immediately desired to re-live it again. At first, looking at the books design(atleast with the three copies I have) you wonder, what could possibly be within the spiral of numbers, and why would a man be standing like a shadow facing the spherical oblivion. As soon as you start reading, you can not put it down unless you haven't an imagination. Even if your mind allows a possible picture from the words of this book, you'll be hooked. It plays like a movie - indepth looks at possible psyche's in the given situation without flaunting too many, or too little detail. Once you realize what your up against in the book, from page one, you will become a viewing character that silently watches the displays around you. If you are claustrophobic I do not recommend reading this book. Also if you cannot hold you breath for atleast the length of several pages, don't dare touch it. But if you have the desire to feel the wonder and awe put forth in this novel, then take a gasp, flip open to page one, and say hello to Jerry for me :)
Rating: 5
Summary: Enjoy the thrilling tales, but avoid blackholes
Comment: I bought Sphere since it looked like a promising science fiction. It turned out to be one of the most astounding novels I have ever read. The decoding of an alien message and a conversation with Sphere itself reminded me of the parallels in Carl Sagan's epic: Contact. They are masterfully written, backed by the Crichton's sophisticated knowledge in psychology and computer algorisms. Sphere brings us much more than a thrilling entertainment; it repeatedly feeds us with the newest information in technology, while not omitting the fundamental elements of scientific methods: Yes, telepathy might be possible but we always have to ask for plausible reasoning based on confirming evidence.
However punctilious Crichton might be, he is no professional cosmologist like Stephen Hawking. In explaining time travel, he suggests a future spaceship from earth passes through "blackholes" to get into parallel universes and travel through time when "wormholes" would have been the more relevant choice (when any object would be torn down into subatomic partials by a blackhole's super strong gravitation). Moreover, the ending of the novel doesn't brought conclusion to the unsolved mystery of neither the future spaceship, nor the sphere. Their significance to the advancement of human society was left ambiguous. Perhaps Crichton should write a sequel.
Sphere is only the second Crichton book I read. Just a week ago, I picked up Disclosure mindlessly from my bibliophilic grandpa's 9-foot bookshelf just to kill some time. It was sitting beside a 1906 German Bible and a pile of ancient Japanese literature analogies. I didn't know why in the space-time continuum did such randomness take place, but increasingly, I discovered that Crichton was very enjoyable to read and there was always depth in every plot. I deeply recommended his books for novice airplane riders, skeptical psychologists, skeptical physicists, and professional poets.
Rating: 5
Summary: Perhaps the best book I've ever read
Comment: I thought JURASSIC PARK was the best book I ever read... than I stumbled across SPHERE! It's a tale about a group of experts from various fields coming together to investigate something that might be alien. Of course what they discover is even MORE alien- themselves! What they find is a key to the human brain, what it can do, where it can lead us, and just how dangerous it can be if we unite it with other intellectual centers in our bodies, phisical and emotional. It's the smartest book I've ever read, topped off with too-die-for charictors, amazing action, and monsters only the human mind can be responsible for in this chaos we call our world. It is ours- and, as they learn, its ours to shape and form however we desire. We see a white male, a female, and a black man reacting to each other, hostile to each other, and trying to survive together... from themselves! Everywhere they go they're confronted with newer problems, dead ends, and impossible goals. But don't get me wrong. Anyone with half a brain can enjoy this fast-paced tale. Wether you're a fan of Extraterrestrials, ocean creatures, the human mind, ESP, or a little heart-stopping action, SPHERE is the book for you, providing all that with fear and more! And the ending is superb. Another great part about this is that it's NOT open to any sequils, because sequils tend to ruin good stories like these. It is a self-contained story. It's too bad we didn't see anything happen between the white man and woman, though. That would have put the story over the top! So SPHERE is one I'm highly recommending. What a great book. It's better than a slice of cheese- take it from a mouse.
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Title: The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0345378482 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: January, 1993 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: Congo by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0345378490 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Airframe by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0345402871 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0345370775 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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