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Michael Crichton

Start date: December 12, 2013

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Jan 26, 2021 Midu Hadi rated it liked it

Shelves: singles, physical-copies, setting-us, us-author, about-people, reviewed, science, failed-experiments, src-read, 2006

I didn't love this book the way I had Jurassic Park but that doesn't mean I didn't have a good time reading it. Its premise is that genetic engineering is all kinds of bad news. While I don't agree with that notion, I can see how things that seem far-off, impossible, or too ludicrous right now may become the reality tomorrow! For instance, I was appalled when I read how medicine treated Henrietta Lacks and her contributions to science. But she must have thought if you cannot trust your healthcar ...more

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Apr 02, 2011 The other Sandy rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: e-book, thriller

I haven't hated a Crichton book this much since Congo. It wasn't even a novel so much as an extremely loosely connected series of vignettes whose sole seeming purpose was to allow Crichton to express his personal opinions on various ethical aspects of genetic research. Crichton has always had some soapboxing in his books, but it's never been as extensive or ham-handed as this.

The e-book specifically was also sub-standard. Any text that appeared in small caps in the original text was completely m ...more

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