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Title: Terrible
Review: I was searching for a "light" but entertaining book to read, and somehow, I decided to pick Congo. Bad mistake. The introduction was promising, I thought it would have some "realism", as the author made me believe (he even included more than two pages of references, such as Scientific American and...(yes) Rolling Stone). Big lie. The math is shameful, clearly Crichton has no idea what he's talking about (just as the "chaos" theory in Jurassic Park), and other details of the book reveal his careless "research" (like the emeralds in Bolivia!). But these are just irrelevant details if you are looking for a novel, of course. What was really bothering was Crichton hypocrisy: in the introduction he wrote about the misconceptions about Zaire (Congo) and Africa and its people, but before the page 50 he made all the misconceptions at least twice. That's shameful, really.
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