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    <body><![CDATA[	I never expected to read this book. But my mom left a copy of Michael Crichton’s book State of Fear at my house, and I found myself reading it. The book is an odd mix of fiction and pseudo-scientific argument.<br/>	As a fiction piece, it’s actually okay. For reasons that are irrelevant to the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9101332">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The threat of global warming is essentially nonexistent. Even if it were a real phenomenon, it would probably result in a net benefit to most of the world.&quot; -p407<br/><br/> I just finished reading &quot;State of Fear,&quot; Michael Crichton's (creator of ER and author of Jurassic Park, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11428337">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[State of Fear is centered around a plot by eco-terrorists to bring world attention to global warming by, you guessed it, blowing up half the world. Yes, the nonsensical plot that makes up the spine of this book leaves the rest of this skeletal narrative in the hands of a man we've rarely seen: Micha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6337698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Michael Crichton continues to impress with both his story telling and with his researching capabilities.  State of Fear, on its surface, is a novel about the global warming debate.  But the issues it touches upon go deeper than just whether or not global warming is a phenomenon we should be concerne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/340761">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Exciting book!  I've read it 3 times now.  After reading State of Fear you'll think everyone who believes in global warming is an idiot.  Definitely read the author's message at the end, it's really interesting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was nervous about starting this book because I more or less knew the plot and the ending because of a few conversations with folks who read it when it first came out a couple of years ago. Despite my reservations, I dove in and found the book to be very enjoyable, with a few minor caveats. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22828698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is propaganda written by an ultra-rich person.  Utterly despicable.  I just thought Crichton was mediocre until I read this.  Now I think he's insidious.  There're 2 basic thrusts: Global Warming is a myth &amp; ecology activists are phenomenally stupid.  I don't actually have much of an opinion ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20772672">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, so, controversy concerning global warming aside, this is a pretty solid effort from Crichton. Particularly more engrossing than <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Timeline" title="Timeline">Timeline</a> although probably not as believable as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Prey" title="Prey">Prey</a>. His readers seem to understand and expect that he will take rather liberal license with stretching the realm of sc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/546174">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a thriller, this books fails to achieve Cricthon's usual intensity.  The plot is an obvious vehicle for the rhetoric, and full of predictable thriller-writer strategies.  The premise--climate scientists with guns--never ceases to feel absurd.  The characterizations are flatter than usual, and vic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60618920">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you want to write an essay on your opinion of global warming, Mikey, do so.  Don't disguise it as a novel when you've only got 10 pages of plot.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alright, alright to explain: I only read this book because I heard that Chrichton used it as a platform for a reactionary argument against global warming.  So I was curious.  And after reading it, I was pretty amused.  I was reminded a lot of <u>The Fountainhead</u> by Ayn Rand.  In similar fashion, Chrich...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61881338">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I disliked this book intensely. Right from the beginning it was critical of enviornmental subjects such as global warming. I was involved with through such studies in the 1990s and into the new century, and many of his opinions were ill-founded: although I recognized that the problems he spoke of ex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22476509">more...</a>]]></body>
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