Title: excitement and action but not much else
Product review: The success of the author should not blind people to his lack of literary merit. The inclusion of the teenagers is a concession to a potentially large number of watchers of the spin-off film, as with Jurassic Park. Given American tastes (a contradiction in terms?), the fact of a book being a best-seller is reason enough to avoid it, at least for those who want something more than momentary excitement. Of all his fiction, by far the most interesting novel was The Andromeda Strain, and this, in comparison, is nearly infantile. More pulp fiction for American numbskulls.
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