Title: Too expensive to be used properly: as toilet paper
Review: I've never liked Crichton's work, but not until this book was I actually offended by it. I wouldn't have read it at all, had I not been stranded away from my personal library. At least I didn't pay for it. This is a piece of irresponsible hackery, meant solely to cash in on reactionary climate change denial, and Limbaugh-like hate sentiment toward environmental concerns. Certainly it's fiction, but his use (misuse, in point of fact) of actual scientific sources opens it to criticism beyond that usually applied to novels. Even a number of the authors of the very papers he cites say he's intentionally misrepresenting their work. Talk about credibility issues; this novel (by definition a work of fiction) receiving a "journalism award" from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists is like NAMBLA naming Jerry Sandusky Man of the Year.
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