Title: Crichton's worst work ever
Review: I've enjoyed most of Crichton's work, but State of Fear is an annoying waste of time for anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together. This is the book that Exxon/Mobil (and their loyal employee in the Oval Office) has been praying someone would write. Crichton was so wrapped up in creating propaganda to advance his pet belief--that the environmental movement is an evil conspiracy--that the book lost most of its entertainment value. No one likes to be lectured by an idealogue, but Crichton mixes his arrogance and willful ignorance on the subject of global climate change into an irritating, ultra-conservative, anti-green polemic. If you want see what happens when a writer decides that his popular success entitles him to share his embarassingly-paranoid delusions with his readers, State of Fear is for you.
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