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Congo
by Michael Crichton
slow-paced
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This is typical Crichton, very heavy on science. However, after 41 years...much of the science no longer holds up. So that takes away quite a bit of the enjoyment from this story. I find that what I enjoy about his books is that they just barely stretch my imagination of what is realistically possible. But that's no longer the case with this book. Nothing about it stretched my imagination at all (Imagine a world where there are millions of computers all connected through some type of network and they can tell you to the minute how long it will take to go from point A to point B.)
You take that element out of this story, there's not much left to be excited about.
This is typical Crichton, very heavy on science. However, after 41 years...much of the science no longer holds up. So that takes away quite a bit of the enjoyment from this story. I find that what I enjoy about his books is that they just barely stretch my imagination of what is realistically possible. But that's no longer the case with this book. Nothing about it stretched my imagination at all (Imagine a world where there are millions of computers all connected through some type of network and they can tell you to the minute how long it will take to go from point A to point B.)
You take that element out of this story, there's not much left to be excited about.