State Of Fear - Michael Crichton

I've never really got on with Michael Crichton books. The trouble I've always found is that, although he comes up with some good ideas (even if they are all essentially a spin on the theme "when technology goes bad), he doesn't have a particularly engaging writing style. Despite this, I do eventually get round to reading them (although I would never go out and buy one full price) and found this one cheap in a charity shop. Picking up State of Fear is enough to induce the titular feeling in you. It's an absolute doorstop of a book - the paperback coming in at well over 600 pages, complete with two appendices and an extensive bibliography of complex-looking ...  Read the complete review

I'm a big Micheal Crichton fan. I've read all his Jurassic Park novels, unwittingly watched movies based on his books and loved ER which I didn't realise until recently he was responsible for. So before I tell you what I think about State of Fear, I'll quickly talk about the premise of the book. The book is essentially about a group of eco-terrorists that go around deliberately causing climate related disasters around the globe in the hopes that this will heighten fear and raise awareness about global warming. Against them is a chap called Dr Richard Kenner who is a Professor Geoenvironmental Engineering at MIT along with some odd associates that he ...  Read the complete review

Before i start, i'll just say...I don't like reading books, and i'm a double English student, but i only read when i have to normally, for school obviously (even then i didn't finish all the books i was supposed to), but i finisihed this one and actually enjoyed it. Now read on. State of Fear is a novel by renouned author Michael Crichton. In this novel he tackles the subject of the environment, specifically global warming. This is one of Crichton's longest novels, possibly because it features a much larger cast of main players than his previous work. In places it can seem a little muddled and confusing but all in all another great novel. The book ...  Read the complete review

This was the first Michael Crichton book that I've read having been recommended many of his titles. It was a book that I was particularly interested in reading as I have a deep care for the environment and am an amateur scientist so I was looking forward to reading this book. The book had a strange start in which I found it hard to keep track of who was who and what the point of the constant flitting around the globe was but after about the first 30-50 pages things started to settle down and once I was in the plot I literally couldn't put it down. For me, the strength of the book is not so much the plot (although this is good but a bit James Bondish and ...  Read the complete review