Book 4: State of Fear
I’ve been reading more than I have been posting. Time to catch up.
Book number four was State of Fear by Michael Crichton. I am a big fan of Crichton and have been ever since I read Jurassic Park when I was in high school. The movie versions never do the books justice. (Don’t get me started on Timeline, which is my favorite Crichton book and one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.) Which I can never figure out because his writing style is such that I feel like I’m watching a movie when I read the book. What I love about his books are that they are based on a lot of fact and the author does so much research on the subjects he’s writing about that while the story is fiction, you learn some things along the way and see how it could be true.
This particular book, State of Fear tackles the subject of global warming and the impact of the human race on the planet. It spins an exciting action-adventure genre tale while raising the question of whether we are really destroying the planet or if earth is just in so much flux at all times that warming and cooling on a global scale would happen regardless of our presence and industrialization. It raised some interesting questions and once again I cross my fingers that someone in Hollywood might be able to get a Crichton adaptation right.
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The science was so much more interesting than the plot, wasn’t it? It seemed like Crichton’s answer to “The Day After Tomorrow”.
The plot was pretty conventional. Its always the science behind the plots that make his books interesting. I haven’t seen “The Day After” yet. Its in my Netflix queue. I wish I would’ve seen it on the big screen. Its one of those type of movies.