"Expertly crafted, ingenious and absorbing." The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The #1 Bestseller by the author of "Jurassic Park." ... read full description
The #1 Bestseller by the author of "Jurassic Park." ... read full description
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Feb 24, 2009
Alex
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I recommend it if you are looking for a quick read. It's about 400 pages and I read it in three days. The story is extremely complicated. The plot is so convoluted that I'm still not quite sure it all ties together. There are plot twists every few pages. In fact, there really is nothing but plot twists. Crichton does not allow plot threads to play out before there is another turn in the story. This might make the novel sound like hackery, but a confusing and meandering plot is necessary to the
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Aug 21, 2011
Ben
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Disclosure, a novel by Michael Crichton, takes place in 1993, during that seemingly ancient era of CRT monitors and thick-as-a-brick cellphones. Crichton paints a realistic portrait of a 30-something VP of a technology firm, based in Seattle and competing with other high-tech firms in a race for fast-CD read/write speeds. Tom Sanders, the main character, enjoys his life in the ever-changing world of 90s technology. With a wife, two kids, and a nice home in Seattle, Tom is also gifted with superb
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Nov 29, 2010
Michael
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CD-ROMs! Small (aka, hilariously clunky) cell phones! Modems! Virtual reality! Sexual harassment lawsuits! And hey, what's this Internet thing?
Yes, it's ripped right from the headlines... of the early 90s. Which is fine, that's when the book was written, but it's so funny how the book trying so hard to seem contemporary and topical makes it feel dated that much sooner.
So it was fine, it kept me reading.
But... I'm not sure it actually all came together in the end.
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Yes, it's ripped right from the headlines... of the early 90s. Which is fine, that's when the book was written, but it's so funny how the book trying so hard to seem contemporary and topical makes it feel dated that much sooner.
So it was fine, it kept me reading.
But... I'm not sure it actually all came together in the end.
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Aug 23, 2011
Chad
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Michael Crichton may be the best fictionist of the 90s. This is pretty high praise, but when you consider the breadth of topics that he wrote on, and not just wrote on, but wrote on with a level of understanding that is usually limited to those who have spent years in the field.
My most recent read was Disclosure, the story of Tom Sanders as he works in the high tech industry with CD Rom drives. When Tom doesn't get the promotion he expects, but is instead passed over for an old girlfri More...
My most recent read was Disclosure, the story of Tom Sanders as he works in the high tech industry with CD Rom drives. When Tom doesn't get the promotion he expects, but is instead passed over for an old girlfri More...
Jun 06, 2010
Ruth
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397 pages. Donaated 2010 January.
"Expertly crafted, ingenious and absorbing." The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The #1 Bestseller by the author of "Jurassic Park." As he did in "Rising Sun," Crichton focuses on a topic as close as today's newspaper headlines: sexual harassment.
Tom Sanders is an up-and-coming executive at the computer firm DigiCom. When his new boss turns out to be a woman who is both his former lover and a business rival, Sanders de More...
"Expertly crafted, ingenious and absorbing." The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The #1 Bestseller by the author of "Jurassic Park." As he did in "Rising Sun," Crichton focuses on a topic as close as today's newspaper headlines: sexual harassment.
Tom Sanders is an up-and-coming executive at the computer firm DigiCom. When his new boss turns out to be a woman who is both his former lover and a business rival, Sanders de More...
Dec 13, 2011
Callum
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Some Chrichton books have a more moral aspect to them, and certainly in this book it comes to the fore. He tackled a more weighty and contentious about harassment in the workplace with undertones of sexual dominance and prejudice. For something that could have easily offended many people, he has crafted this book quite skillfully, and hasn't dropped entertainment value in the process. The plot is a little complex at some points, particularly during the climax of the book, it seems that twists a
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Mar 26, 2009
Barbara
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I love Michael Crichton's books. They are so off the wall and hit you from behind every time. There are just so many twists and turns, that you find yourself looking totally in the wrong direction for the bad guy. Fabulous!
Tom Sanders, a guy in charge of the development and production of new computer components has expected to be promoted when the merger takes place. However, unexpectedly the position is given to a woman he used to date who in his opinion has zero experience for More...
Tom Sanders, a guy in charge of the development and production of new computer components has expected to be promoted when the merger takes place. However, unexpectedly the position is given to a woman he used to date who in his opinion has zero experience for More...
Sep 04, 2011
Laura
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I have mixed feeling about this one. The book started slow, but once it got going I flew through it. I enjoyed the mystery aspect of the plot, trying to figure out who is undermining who on the corporate ladder. However, I'm not sure Crichton achieved what he was hoping to with the sexual harassment case.
The case is interesting because it is a sort of role reversal, a female executive harassing a male employee. I think Crichton was trying to make the point that this type of situation More...
The case is interesting because it is a sort of role reversal, a female executive harassing a male employee. I think Crichton was trying to make the point that this type of situation More...
Jul 30, 2011
Lester
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This is my first Crichton. It started rather like a lot of pulp fiction, but grew on me within the third chapter. By time I was halfway through, I was hooked on the story. A very enjoyable read, and it is amazing that the author could drag me in.
The story itself is about the nature of sexual harassment, and it cleverly makes the reader wonder about who the aggressor is in the story. It was based on real events and this made the story a more compelling read. Until the end, you are never really s More...
The story itself is about the nature of sexual harassment, and it cleverly makes the reader wonder about who the aggressor is in the story. It was based on real events and this made the story a more compelling read. Until the end, you are never really s More...
Oct 24, 2010
Gerold
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Passed over for promotion, Tom, a Division Manager for a Communication Technology company is sexually harrassed by his new boss - a woman - who happens to be someone with whom he had a relationship years earlier. A bad situation turns worse when she accuses him of harrasment and demands his transfer - and subsequent loss of a big cash payout. Things get interesting when Tom appoints a female lawyer to represent his case...
Not the type of book I normally read, but enjoyed the intrigue once More...
Not the type of book I normally read, but enjoyed the intrigue once More...
Feb 28, 2010
Bill
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I'm torn on this one. The story finally sort of paid off. But I actually set it aside for a couple of weeks to read The Golden Compass. It's not that it was bad, the writing was OK. I just didn't care for the characters that much, one of the scenes actually made me very uncomfortable (and not just in the way the author intended), and some of the action hit too close to home (high-tech company politics). That last point could be a little disingenuous on my part, since it's one of the things that
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Nov 27, 2011
Beth
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I wish there was a sixth star for the ones that go beyond all expectations of what the English language is supposed to be able to do. "Unputdownable!" You see that on the jackets and on the backs of paperbacks all the time. But Disclosure really did that to me. I actually tried to put it down. Twice I put it down, turned off the light, rolled over, and closed my eyes. Twice I opened my eyes, rolled back over, turned on the light, and picked it back up. It only was unputdownable
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Mar 23, 2011
Chris
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Reading a book now, based on an early-90's technology company, it just goes to show how ahead if his time, that Michale Crichton really is (see: Jurassic Park circa 1990 also). Anyways, I couldn't put this one down!... and as I was reading it, my sister had told me that Demi Moore and Michael Douglas starred opposite eachother as the two lead roles in the movie version, so those are the faces/ voices/ mannerisms of the characters that I likened to the two main characters that made it that much m
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Feb 26, 2009
Andy
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I remember taking this book with me on the long flight to Japan. Bad choice! I had liked Michael Crichton books until this one. I just could not make it though the book. I left it in the airplane when I landed in Tokyo.
I don't think it's necessarily a bad book. Reverse sexual harassment just did not click with me at all.
Given the prominence of sexual harassment that women deal with on a regular basement, I can understand why Michael Crichton wrote the book. But the plot More...
I don't think it's necessarily a bad book. Reverse sexual harassment just did not click with me at all.
Given the prominence of sexual harassment that women deal with on a regular basement, I can understand why Michael Crichton wrote the book. But the plot More...
Jul 22, 2011
Bailey
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Jul 05, 2011
Alexander
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This one's definitely a book for those who are interested in economics, new technologies and the companies that develop them. (It's a bit funny to read about how 'innovatite' CD Rom drives were at the time the book was written, lol.) Of course, the book also is about sexual harrassment and men vs. women in the workplace and whatnot, but the main theme is still the same old "get rid of co-workers you can't stand through intrigues and whatnot".
The book has quite a few nice More...
Jan 06, 2012
Sougata
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In this world where man dominates everywhere, its difficult to believe that a woman can victimize a man. It's even hard to imagine it being sexual harassment . However Michael shows us how harassment is not a quality of gender but of power.
The novel breaks quite a lot of our pre conceived notions about the world and about the psychology of human beings. This is a book that must be read for the sheer brutal truth.
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The novel breaks quite a lot of our pre conceived notions about the world and about the psychology of human beings. This is a book that must be read for the sheer brutal truth.
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Oct 07, 2011
Shannon
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I feel very ambivalently about this book. On the one hand, i was engrossed in the plot and really wanted to know what was going to happen. It is also very important for the stories of men who are sexually harassed by women bosses to be told.
On the other hand, this book's take on the subject did not come off as feminist or liberatory for people of any gender. Of the book's women characters, only one is decent; the others are "bitches" or neutral. The one self-identified femin More...
On the other hand, this book's take on the subject did not come off as feminist or liberatory for people of any gender. Of the book's women characters, only one is decent; the others are "bitches" or neutral. The one self-identified femin More...
Aug 24, 2011
Suzanne
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Set in the technical corporate business world of Digi-Com, this is a story that focuses on sexual harassment in the workplace. The twist here is instead of female manipulation, the victim is male. The boss exerting power of position and sex is female. After being passed over for a well-deserved promotion, Tom Sanders finds himself with a former girlfriend as his superior. Meredith and Tom were a couple ten years prior, but had went their own ways and lost contact through the years. Now Mered
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Jun 03, 2011
Sian
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Disclosure by Michael Crichton
This is one of the most addictive books I've ever read. If I hadn't had to finish a book due back at the library as well as one for my book club, then I would have read this in perhaps three or four days.
For a start, Crichton treates his readers as intelligent. He explains DigiCom in great detail, including the various products they're working on. To begin with, I wasn't entirely sure why he was telling us all about it, but it becomes clear later in More...
This is one of the most addictive books I've ever read. If I hadn't had to finish a book due back at the library as well as one for my book club, then I would have read this in perhaps three or four days.
For a start, Crichton treates his readers as intelligent. He explains DigiCom in great detail, including the various products they're working on. To begin with, I wasn't entirely sure why he was telling us all about it, but it becomes clear later in More...
Jul 29, 2011
rebellyell666
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Der Arbeitgeber von Thomas (Tom) Sanders, DigiCom, steht kurz davor mit Conley-White zu fusionieren. Gerade deswegen kursiert das Gerücht, Sanders würde zum neuen Abteilungsleiter befördert. Doch als er morgens im Büro eintrifft, muss er einen herben Rückschlag einstecken: Die Firma hat Meredith Johnson auf ebendiesen gesetzt – sie kommt frisch aus Cupertino, wo DigiCom eine Zweigstelle hat. Und damit nicht genug: Johnson ist die Ex-Freundin von Sanders, mit der er vor acht Ja More...
Der Arbeitgeber von Thomas (Tom) Sanders, DigiCom, steht kurz davor mit Conley-White zu fusionieren. Gerade deswegen kursiert das Gerücht, Sanders würde zum neuen Abteilungsleiter befördert. Doch als er morgens im Büro eintrifft, muss er einen herben Rückschlag einstecken: Die Firma hat Meredith Johnson auf ebendiesen gesetzt – sie kommt frisch aus Cupertino, wo DigiCom eine Zweigstelle hat. Und damit nicht genug: Johnson ist die Ex-Freundin von Sanders, mit der er vor acht Ja More...
Mar 10, 2011
Stef
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First off, I love how dated this book is. Set in the computer industry and published in '94, everyone's obsessed with virtual reality and are very impressed when common folk recognize any kind of 'Internet address'.
As most of Crichton's books, this is an entertaining thriller full of intrigue and plot twists, but with a deeper message entwined into the plot. It takes the topic of sexual harassment and turns it on its head - I can't say that I have ever heard or read much about men subj More...
As most of Crichton's books, this is an entertaining thriller full of intrigue and plot twists, but with a deeper message entwined into the plot. It takes the topic of sexual harassment and turns it on its head - I can't say that I have ever heard or read much about men subj More...
Jun 07, 2009
novia
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Michael Crichton can easily be called as a genius writer. All of his novels always include knowledge, it’s like reading science book in a fun way.
Disclosure is les scientific than Crichton’s other novels, it is about sexual harassment in a high-tech office. The most common sexual harassment’s cases happened to women…but in Disclosure, it was the other way around.
Tom Sanders had been working in DigiCom for 15years, everyone in the office thought he was going to be the vice presi More...
Disclosure is les scientific than Crichton’s other novels, it is about sexual harassment in a high-tech office. The most common sexual harassment’s cases happened to women…but in Disclosure, it was the other way around.
Tom Sanders had been working in DigiCom for 15years, everyone in the office thought he was going to be the vice presi More...
May 10, 2008
Gale
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A man is sexually harrassed by a woman. The high-powered attorney hired to defend him is a Latina--two legally protected classes wedged into one pair of patent-leather pumps. And a shallow, self-serving CEO defends his choice of a woman for a top post, telling the company lawyer, "Hell, we've got to break the glass ceiling sometime."
All the while I'm asking myself, "What kind of book is this, and why haven't I read more like it?"
Disclosure, by bestsell More...
All the while I'm asking myself, "What kind of book is this, and why haven't I read more like it?"
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Jan 25, 2012
Cheryl
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Great book based on an actual event....fictionalized, of course. This story handles sexual harrassment in the workplace, and did so in a highly believable manner. The main character is a male who gets passed over for a promotion and then ends up romantically involved very briefly. The story is one of manipulation as the company tries to twist the actual facts to cover their own liability during a corporate merger. There are many levels to this story, and I love that the typical roles were re
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Nov 07, 2009
Judy
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Crichton writes well -- this story, published in 1993, was prescient in its description of the Wii. For some reason, the "hero" was the victim of sexual "harassment" by his newly appointed supervisor, during a crucial time for the company (during a proposed buyout). Normally a "quiet" and accepting person, he decides to pursue with his complaint. During the course of 3-4 days, it all comes out. I had an inkling of some of it (who were his friends and who were not),
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Jan 18, 2012
Peter
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Supposedly this is one of the best books that "gets" modern business issues. If you ignore the emphasis on the issue of sexual harrassment, it's very good on the interaction between the various executives in a company. I also appreciated the feel Crichton had for bureaucracies in his first book, a medical thriller. And, of course, who doesn't love a female villain, a sexual predator that seems to be modeled along the same lines as the T-Rex from jurassic park.
Apr 24, 2011
Andreas
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You know it’s Crichton when the chapter headings are days (all in same two weeks or so). I keep coming back to Crichton despite his rather formulaic plots. The guy is a dialogue genius, and his dependency on describing what is, at the time of writing, cutting edge technology, is always good for nostalgia.
This book is way better than Crichton’s norm. Really quite a gripping page turner. The movie is pretty good too.
http://www.books.rosboch.net/?p=629
This book is way better than Crichton’s norm. Really quite a gripping page turner. The movie is pretty good too.
http://www.books.rosboch.net/?p=629
Jun 27, 2011
Alex
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Another great Michael Crichton book. This one deals with sexual harassment in the workplace, with a man actually accusing his female boss of harassment. The ending really surprised me, and I absolutely loved the last paragraph.
I did laugh quite a few times when they talked about such groundbreaking technology as CD-ROMS and cellular phones. There's even a paragraph talking about this vague invention called the "Internet" and how no one understands quite how it works.
I did laugh quite a few times when they talked about such groundbreaking technology as CD-ROMS and cellular phones. There's even a paragraph talking about this vague invention called the "Internet" and how no one understands quite how it works.
Jan 19, 2012
Jennie
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Due to the environment I read this in, I have to say that I liked it better than I would normally. That said, it was interesting. The fact that it's based on a true story was...illuminating, I guess is the word for it. I had no idea what this book was about going into it because it lacked the dust jacket, so I was expecting Chriton's typical sci-fi...and this was not at all. I waver between liking and only finding it okay.
