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State of Fear
 

State of Fear

by Michael Crichton


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Amazon.com reveals a few facts about the "father of the techno-thriller."

1942: John Michael Crichton is born in Chicago, Illinois on Oct. 23.

1960: Crichton graduates from Roslyn High School on Long Island, New York, with high marks and a reputation as a star basketball player. He decides... (read more)

Top tags: fiction,  thriller,  michael crichton,  science fiction,  global warming (all tags)

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Kagan
  • Rated 5 stars

“This should be required reading before anyone opens their mouth on the Global Warming hoax.”

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Mike B
  • Rated 1 stars

“Terrible. He should have just written a quick 5 page essay on the holes in the global warming theory. To try and expand it into a 300 page "novel" was a bad idea. The "book" is more of a lecture and has bad characters, bad dialog, ridiculous plot, Crichton writes another stinkbomb.”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.509927 stars
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  • Rated 3 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • Arathi M

    arathi m said:

    “but yes it does address global warming issue and a lot of other environmantal issues ... but i am not sure if all the given data is true facts ...”

    posted Monday, July 14 2008
  • Jason C

    jason c said:

    “Yes. It is informative but not so entertaining. The plot was too slow for me.”

    posted Sunday, May 25 2008
  • Douglas P

    douglas p said:

    “I didn't consider this to be one of his best works. I did enjoy examining the different perspective he took on global warming and I wonder how much of the data he quoted is really accurate. What really grabbed me was the very end of the book where he talked about the study of eugenics. I had no idea that the study of eugenics was so prevalent at the turn of the century and that there were so many assumptions about its truth. Scary stuff.”

    posted Thursday, May 22 2008
  • David B

    david b said:

    “Brilliant and insightful... his best work!”

    posted Monday, May 19 2008
  • ran

    ran said:

    “a good work of non fiction forced into a pathetic armour of fiction is wat this book came across as. his whole jungle sequence at the end was terribly amature.”

    posted Friday, May 16 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
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