Advantages: Interesting and well written book Disadvantages: Technically occasionally over my head!
Background:
Another book recommended to me, this time by my Dentist. He raves about this author and as I'm due for a check up next week I thought I better give it a go.
About the author:
MichaelCrichton was born in Chicago in USA on 23rd October 1942. He was probably best known as the author of 'Jurassic Park' and the creator of 'ER'.
His first best seller 'The Andromeda Strain' was published while he was still a Medical Student. He has written 20 Novels, two screenplays and has sold over 150 million books worldwide.
About the book:
Jack Forman is an out of work scientist; he looks after his three children while his wife Julia works. She by contrast has a very successful and high powered job, while Jack struggles to even get interview in Silicon Valley.
Meanwhile in the Nevada Desert, the experiment his wife is in ...
Advantages: interesting, thought provoking, informative Disadvantages: takes a while for characters to be established
I've just finished reading "Next" and I actually thought it was a really good read.
It does take a slightly different approach to Crichton's previous novels, and perhaps that's why others haven't found it as good.
"Next" covers many controversial subjects that some might find difficult to get their heads around with but I found the novel informative and his academic writing style rather enjoyable
The book illustrates through its narrative, science's perpetual desire to discover and learn more about human genetics.
It refreshingly moves beyond the ethics concerned with genetic modification and tries to build a holistic picture about the current state and future of genetic research.
I think the main question that "Next" raises, with every successful genetic modification or breakthrough, is what will scientists do "Next ...
Advantages: Good Scientific Basis Disadvantages: Maybe written under a deadline as rushed ending
To this day, I can still remember going to the cinema as a 10 year old to watch Jurassic Park. Like many children of that time, I was fascinated by dinosaurs and the special effects were like nothing I had ever seen before. At the time I saw it solely as a really good film and knew nothing of it coming from a best selling book by an author called MichaelCrichton.
As I got older I gradually became more aware of Crichton through films, TV and I slowly became aware of him as an author, although I had never sat down to read one of his books until a few months ago. On that occasion I was reading 'State of Fear', a great read based around the science of Climate Change. It made me wonder why I hadn't read his books before as it combined my enjoyment of science with a well written story. Indeed, as far as I am aware, all of Crichton's books ...
The new thriller from one of the most famous names in writing will be the most exciting, anticipated publication of Christmas 2006. Following on from the bestselling 'Prey' and 'State of Fear', Michael Crichton's next novel is set to repeat the winning formula established with novels such as 'Jurassic Park': to identify future trends in science and imagine the most astonishing -- and terrifying -- possibilities that they hold for Mankind.
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