Next - Michael Crichton

What an amazing book. It was Michael Crichton at his best, going into way too much detail about the subject matter but never failing to entertain. This could be his most complex and strange book to date (and I won't even go into the talking monkey too much). It is told from multiple perspectives and I am not sure where to begin in trying to explain what the book is about. So I will say it in two words - "The future". I suppose the title gives that away to a certain extent. Michael Crichton proves to the world once more he is so much smarter than we are but is able to explain things in such a way that his adoring readership know what he is talking about ...

Michael Crichton is a highly successful writer with over 150 million books in print, going back 40 years. He is probably best know as the creator of ER and author of Jurassic Park, which became a hugely successful multi-million dollar movie. However, to his fans Crichton is much more than the creator of Jurassic Park and the release of his latest novels create a rush of both excitement and anticipation as to what it is going to be all about. I therefore couldn't wait to read Next when it was released as hardback in November 2006. In many ways it is similar to many of his other books in terms of covering a very controversial subject head on but in the form of ...