Title: I really, really wanted to love this book
Review: Ever since my fiance made me read Al Gore's "Earth in the Balance", I've been sceptical of the science behind global warming. "State of Fear" does a remarkable job in illuminating the political agendas of those who manipulate scientific data for their own purposes.What the novel does NOT do, however, is entertain. The characters are one dimensional and dull, the dialogue tedious and the story line so linear and predictable that it's as if Mr. Crichton concocted it solely for the purpose of making the larger point about Global Warming.Mr. Crichton is a real novelist and I view this as a lapse of good judgment on his part in the service of a larger cause. It reminds one of what politically motivated Soviet era and Nazi era "art" must have been like.
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