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3.35 AVERAGE
3.35 AVERAGE
Synopsis:
ELF wants to create "natural" disasters to highlight global warming. A team of people set out to stop them.
Review:
Quick read. I couldn't put it down. Cutting-edge, challenging ideas on environment and climate change. Is it more complicated than most people think? My views may have softened a little after reading this.
Quotes:
p.669: "I believe ignorance is best addressed by education, not by unneeded and wasteful regulation."
Rating:
5 stars for content. Would not read it again.
*Found at Lexington, KY book sale; donated.
ELF wants to create "natural" disasters to highlight global warming. A team of people set out to stop them.
Review:
Quick read. I couldn't put it down. Cutting-edge, challenging ideas on environment and climate change. Is it more complicated than most people think? My views may have softened a little after reading this.
Quotes:
p.669: "I believe ignorance is best addressed by education, not by unneeded and wasteful regulation."
Rating:
5 stars for content. Would not read it again.
*Found at Lexington, KY book sale; donated.
This is an "environmental thriller". In it, a group of climate change sceptics uncover a plot by environmental terrorists who are trying to manufacture events that will support the theory of climate change. Now they must rush to stop the terrorists, risking their lives in the process.
In this book, people advocating climate change are the bad guys and every couple of pages we face a conversation between two characters were the person advocating climate change is shown to not know what they are talking about. At times, the relativisation of climate change seems almost reasonable.
Plot-wise it has a scheme: ride in a chartered plane - conversation about climate change - arrival in a remote place - mortal danger and narrow escape - repeat. Some of the occurences were completely grotesk and none of them had any real emotional consequences for the characters, which were just vehicles for the message of the book.
In this book, people advocating climate change are the bad guys and every couple of pages we face a conversation between two characters were the person advocating climate change is shown to not know what they are talking about. At times, the relativisation of climate change seems almost reasonable.
Plot-wise it has a scheme: ride in a chartered plane - conversation about climate change - arrival in a remote place - mortal danger and narrow escape - repeat. Some of the occurences were completely grotesk and none of them had any real emotional consequences for the characters, which were just vehicles for the message of the book.
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Schlechtestes Buch seit langem. Schwurbellekture und eigentlich in jeder Hinsicht peinlich. Ich hab mich durchgekämpft aber es war nicht leicht.
challenging
informative
tense
Storyline just too slow for me. Plus the audiobook version I was listening too, the narrator’s voice just didn’t sit right.
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Not his best work, but pretty good. An interesting take on global warming. He backed it up with a lot of research, but that can go either way. The ending felt a bit rushed, but most of his endings do.
Probably my least favorite Michael Crichton book. I was so lost the first 200 pages, but the ending makes it kind of worth it