Andromeda

liked the beginning, thought the end was unbelievably anticlimatic.

The writing was drier than a cracker in the desert... But I loved the book anyway! It definitely reads like a scientific/army report but this was such an interesting twist on the classic sci-fi (first contact?). I only recommend it if you already love sci-fi and diseases apocalyptic books. Left me wan Leggi tutto

An ubiquitous small town in the remote Arizona desert , a pleasant area of the late 1960's such a wonderful place is the setting as startled but curious , often bored people in Piedmont where nothing ever happens it does tonight, they look up in the dark sky something is falling, drifting slowly...

الأزمة هى الموقف الذي تتحول فيه مجموعة من الظروف المقبولة إلى ظروف غير مقبولة بتاتا؛ذلك بعد اضافة عامل معين وسلالة اندروميدا هي الازمة البيولوجية الاولى..هكذا يجذبنا كريشتون الطبيب-الاديب لرائعته في الخيال العلمي هي السيناريو الذي يتوقعه علماء عصرنا لأوبئة الالفية الجديدةالخلية اندروميدا هبطت من الف Leggi tutto

There's a good story in here, somewhere. If Crichton tackled this idea later in his career it would have undoubtedly been a great book. There's just far too much science and not enough thriller.

[image error] "Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable." My first Michael Crichton and a great introduction. The Andromeda Strain is a fast paced an

This book is a good example that sometimes the rating that one gives to one book isn't fault itself of the book but due the timing of when you read it in relation with having read other books of the same author. All that long introduction is to explain that my very reason to give only 3 stars to this Leggi tutto