Title: BORING!
Review: Nevermind the "truth" about global warming. Crichton quoted a bunch of studies that say what he thinks, and the other side can quote just as many for their point of view. The problem is that he could have subtly made his point while crafting a exciting thriller, but his sledgehammer-to-the-head method of getting his agenda across sucks all the fun out of the book. No sooner would I be gripped by an action sequence then he would go into a multipage diatribe about scientists with agendas (who are bad, as opposed to fiction writers with agendas, who are apparently good) and I'd lose interest and put the book down for days. It took me almost a month to slog my way through this one, when his books are usually a weekend rush for me. It was just DULL. As bad as the movie for Timeline was, I hope and pray no one tries to make a film version of this snoozefest. Unless you can get Ted Nugent to play Kenner, and then at least you'd get the right-wingers to go see it.
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