About this title: Blockbuster writer Michael Crichton's eco-thriller is a dizzying, adventure-packed novel, embedded with a controversial message. A highly organized group of environmental extremists are linked to the bizarre deaths of a graduate student in wave mechanics and a man who leases submarines, as well as the mysterious disappearance of a wealthy donor to ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 12/2004
ISBN-13:9780066214139ISBN:0066214130
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 624 p. Contains: Illustrations. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 12/2004
ISBN-13:9780066214139ISBN:0066214130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 624 p. Contains: Illustrations. Previous Owner's Inscription. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 12/2004
ISBN-13:9780066214139ISBN:0066214130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 624 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 12/2004
ISBN-13:9780066214139ISBN:0066214130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 624 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 12/2004
ISBN-13:9780066214139ISBN:0066214130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 624 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 12/2004
ISBN-13:9780066214139ISBN:0066214130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 624 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 12/2004
ISBN-13:9780066214139ISBN:0066214130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 624 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 12/2004
ISBN-13:9780066214139ISBN:0066214130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 624 p. Contains: Illustrations. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 12/2004
ISBN-13:9780066214139ISBN:0066214130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 624 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 12/2004
ISBN-13:9780066214139ISBN:0066214130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 624 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 12/2004
ISBN-13:9780066214139ISBN:0066214130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 624 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 12/2004
ISBN-13:9780066214139ISBN:0066214130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 624 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 12/2004
ISBN-13:9780066214139ISBN:0066214130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 624 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 12/2004
ISBN-13:9780066214139ISBN:0066214130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 624 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 12/2004
ISBN-13:9780066214139ISBN:0066214130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 624 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
"I have liked Michael Crichton's novels in the past but I cannot say the same for this one. I knew going in that the novel focused on the non-believers in global warming and that interested me as an avid environmentalist. However, the book is so geared towards global warming being a mythical phenomenon that it made it hard to read. It should have been more even-handed. Instead it came across as severely anti-environmentalist and anti-global warming. All environmental groups are suspect and up to no good.
In addition, one character was a supreme know-it-all and it drove me insane. Know-it-alls in literature or real life are nothing but annoying. Also, Crichton's opinions in the back of the book were unncessary, simply write the novel and leave your outright opinion out of it (although the know-it-all character seems to be Crichton).
Also, I felt the book was longer than necessary. The middle especially for me dragged on with scenes that lasted far too long."
"As a thriller, this books fails to achieve Cricthon's usual intensity. The plot is an obvious vehicle for the rhetoric, and full of predictable thriller-writer strategies. The premise--climate scientists with guns--never ceases to feel absurd. The characterizations are flatter than usual, and vicious where he means them to be merely satirical. There is cranky old man venom in the writing. In short, this book is a piece of propaganda and would never have been published were it not for Crichton's name brand staus.
But his long-honed writerly reflexes kick in enough to make the book readable. The speeches are actually the most thrilling part of the book, and examine environmentalism from a critical perspective that is unorthodox, convincing, and fascinating. Despite being a bad piece of fiction, it did get me to look hard at some my beliefs and where I got them. Bad fiction, interesting propaganda."
"Interesting and sometimes factual (when footnotes are provided) book about the other side of the global warming argument. While not completely against the "green" movement; the book presents ideas as to the industry that the movement has become."
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