Title: Slow start to no place
Review: While I have enjoyed many of Chriton's books (inspite of the fact that he does not know how to plausibly end a good story) this one holds little enjoyment. A ten page essay on the misunderstandings of global warning would have saved me the many hours it took to plow through this book. The story takes 250 pages to get going and constantly wanders through lectures on the ignorance of environmentalists. While the point may be valid in some ways the plot seems to be simply a guise to preach this point. There is no tension, no spark, no reason to care about any of the characters in the story or in fact in the world they are supposedly trying to save. The State of Fear is never developed. As a thriller it is empty and thrilless. As an environmental statement it is 550 pages to long. I won't give up on him for this book but it was a waste of $8.00 and 15 hours.
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