Title: A boring ride on Crichton's hobbyhorse
Review: This novel is about 600 pp in length - perhaps 450 pp too long since a lot of it is taken up with Crichton's eclectic compilation of "data" purporting to show that global warming & climate change don't exist. The plot is based on the premise that global warming & climate change don't exist but their effects -- e.g., glaciers melting & calving or unseasonal floods in the desert SW -- are actually caused by eco-terrorists who stand to gain financially from a public that believes in these phenomena. When the characters appear, in between the reams of spurious data, they are barely two-dimensional and move through improbable sometimes silly adventures in trying to best the eco-terrorists. The library is your friend here - don't waste a cent on this book.
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