660 reviews for:

Congo

Michael Crichton

3.43 AVERAGE


While I know that this book is really dated since it relies of the science of the past to make it work, but as someone who grew up loving Amy, I may have a stuffed version of her that, to be honest, has been my favorite stuffed animal forever, I can't get myself to give this less than four stars.

This is a surprisingly good book from Michael Crichton. He moves away from his typical threads of explicitly reinforcing the innate goodness of republican america and distrust of science to doing it through heavy-handed metaphor.

Note that a surprisingly good book from michael crichton only gets two stars.
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous informative tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I’ll be honest for the entire first part of the book I though it would be Sasquatches

It was good. Shorter than I expected, but still good :)
adventurous dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous challenging informative medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

2.75