Title: Not up to his usual standards...
Review: I just finished reading this book and it is a huge disappointment for a Crichton novel. It is basically a forum for him to show off how much research he has done on the issue of global warming. When he begins to drone on too long, he suddenly puts in a chapter or so of page-turning action. But it does not work. The characters never grabbed me, the action was completely lacking, and it seemed the characters' actions never really amounted to anything. There were many useless characters, or characters introduced early on that never came back to have their storylines resolved. The climax scene was a cop-out. Crichton should have just written a review article for a trade journal summarizing all the publications he read regarding global warming. Skip this book, it is not worth it.
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