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Title: Reads like a Junior High History Assignment
Review: I am an avid Michael Crichton fan and have read pretty much everything he has written aside from his nonfiction books. Crichton's writings are often full of action, complexity, character development, as well as a deeper underlying theme or message about society, technology, and human nature. The Great Train Robbery was either lacking or painfully deficient of every one of these elements. As I expressed in the title, it is written more as a historical documentation of an event rather than a traditional novel and is frequently interrupted by lengthy explanations of historical perspective. The Victorian criminal slang used (although brilliantly) to tell the story makes it a slow, and at times, unintelligible read. I give it two stars because it is obvious that Crichton has written a well thought out, well researched book; I only wish it didn't feel like I was reading his history report.
