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Title: Not well written.
Review: I believe Crichton suffers from his own success. This book reads like it was put to print when it became "good enough". The foreshadowing is blatant, the plot mechanisms are cliche. He even makes a huge obvious mistake - the characters are using earpieces to communicate, which also translate language into common-era English on the fly; the thing is, for a good portion of the second half of the book, the characters have turned off all their earpieces, but can STILL understand what the locals are saying, when just 12 hours ago, they could understand nothing without the earpieces! There are other smaller time inconsistancies. This is just sloppy, and I think a lot of popular authors let their quality drop like this when they're pumping out a book or more a year.Despite all of this, the book was still enjoyable, and that's what saved its rating. Crichton at least understands reader attention span and interest.
