henry_eyrich 's review for:

Congo by Michael Crichton

5.0

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There was not a moment in this book that i did not like. I will say that the beginning start off a little slow building up the plot and characters but once you got past the first "Day" in the book man things really started to fly and this was a paper turner. Crichton had some excellent characters with the most developed being Karen Ross and how her employment assessment of her mentality in the beginning of the book turned out to be perfectly true and on point at the end of the book. She slowly becomes what the computer thought she would become and Crichton executed that perfectly. There rest of the characters were good but did not have nearly as much of a development has Ross did. Amy, the gorilla, seemed to me more like a 7 or 8 year old child when she was just reaching the prime of her like in gorilla terms. Mainly the way she signed and acted reminded me of a child. But man was this book a great read. It was fun and there very seemed to be a dull moment. Can't wait to read more of Crichton.