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The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

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Oct 24, 11

bookshelves: 10th-grade
Read in October, 2011

I found that the book the Andromeda Strain was extremely interesting. It was not amazingly written but that is because it used extremely advanced vocabulary and was written almost as a report. I found the plot very interesting though and I really liked how the story came together. The Odd Man Hypothesis in the book is quite interesting and seems almost realistic even though the statistics are most likely fictional. Throughout the book the is a very creative yet vivid imagery, I really found the whole sterilization process described near the beginning to be quite visual along with the lab environment and experiments. I also liked how you could think you had pieced together how Andromeda worked but then there would be a twist and it threw you in a whole new direction so even though you thought someone had found a cure it would end in a grave mistake. I liked the climactic ending too, it all came together quite fast but it was very thrilling to read the last chapters, especially when the bomb countdown started. I had no clue which way the book would end and I liked that.

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