Because I want to be like Cohoon, too
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neebsBook Review: State of Fear by Michael Crichton
Plot: It's a fiction book about Global Warming, but all of the fiction is backed up with footnotes of real studies, so what they are saying is legit. This rich guy is funding an Environmental Organization and begins to get sketched out by what they are doing. Some people die and then the rich guy dies so his young lawyer and hot assistant take over and get mixed up in all the drama. They meet up with this other dude and go from Antarctica to LA to New Mexico to tropical islands and almost die a bunch of times.
What I thought: It rocked. Although I am doubting how many times someone can almost die (like being struck by lightning twice, getting dropped off an ice shelf in Antarctica, and then almost going over a waterfall in an SUV) and not have anything more than a couple of bruises. There is one cannibalism scene, which I think would really appeal to Cohoon and others, but totall skeeved me out. I didn't like the guy who got eaten, though, so that was all good. Also, it is fun to learn things that you never knew in the context of a fictional book. It made me rethink many things I have been told in the past.
Should You Read It? Yes. He's a great author, it's an entertaining yet educational book, and there is cannibalism and Ferarris. It don't get much better than that! ;)
Plot: It's a fiction book about Global Warming, but all of the fiction is backed up with footnotes of real studies, so what they are saying is legit. This rich guy is funding an Environmental Organization and begins to get sketched out by what they are doing. Some people die and then the rich guy dies so his young lawyer and hot assistant take over and get mixed up in all the drama. They meet up with this other dude and go from Antarctica to LA to New Mexico to tropical islands and almost die a bunch of times.
What I thought: It rocked. Although I am doubting how many times someone can almost die (like being struck by lightning twice, getting dropped off an ice shelf in Antarctica, and then almost going over a waterfall in an SUV) and not have anything more than a couple of bruises. There is one cannibalism scene, which I think would really appeal to Cohoon and others, but totall skeeved me out. I didn't like the guy who got eaten, though, so that was all good. Also, it is fun to learn things that you never knew in the context of a fictional book. It made me rethink many things I have been told in the past.
Should You Read It? Yes. He's a great author, it's an entertaining yet educational book, and there is cannibalism and Ferarris. It don't get much better than that! ;)
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Date: 2006-02-04 07:46 am (UTC)FYI (and shameless plug): If you like entertaining yet educational books, try my insider novel on life in a nuclear power plant, at http://RadDecision.blogspot.com. There's no cost to readers - who seem to like it, judging from their comments at the homepage.