I read the hardcover. Goodreads is in glitch mode and won't let me pick that one. I have no idea why.
I consider myself a Crichton fan. I read that thI read the hardcover. Goodreads is in glitch mode and won't let me pick that one. I have no idea why.
I consider myself a Crichton fan. I read that this was one of his unfinished works and, no offense to him, his wife who wanted it published, or Richard Preston who finished it, it kind of reads that way. There are some virtually identical sentences that follow each other, some odd editing, and the set up of the group we focus on almost felt like someone building an adventuring party in an RPG. The main villain was almost cartoonishly evil. There's another character that reminded me a lot of Nedry, the computer guy, from Jurassic Park.
The concept was good, some of the ideas within were really cool, and I will say this: don't presume anyone is safe when the deaths start. The unexpected happens. It just overall felt like it needed a bit more polishing.
A group of grad students get an incredible offer: fly from wintry Cambridge, Massachusetts to Hawaii to check out an amazing potential job. Know that bit about "if it sounds too good to be true..." They soon find virtually nothing is how it seems out there. And how does the death of a local PI fit in to all this? ...more
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