Title: More Message Than Plot
Review: Michael Crichton has a talent for combining high tech info with old fashioned fun and excitement such as in Timeline and Prey.Sometimes however the details overwhelm the story(Airframe) and this book despite plenty of entertaining close calls is pretty much a mess.The goofy mishmash of a plot is probalbly the first in history to have environmental terrorists shooting lightning bolts at cub scouts and features more graphs than any book I've read since high school.Crichton asserts that global warming is a myth and uses every character,graph, and factoid that he can to prove his point bringing the flow of the book to a grinding halt every 20 pages.It's a thoughtprovoking topic worthy of discussion but it's poorly incorporated into a sloppy plot.At least it's ambitious but I kept expecting to find a test at the end of the book.
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