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Praise for 'Next': 'A wonderful farrago, energetically stirring up a lot of scientific, medical, business and legal issues! marvellous.' Evening Standard 'A satirical black-comedy thriller! Crichton writes likes Tom Wolfe on speed! completely brilliant! Crichton's treatise on how breakthroughs in genetic science have been hijacked by science is anything but dull! top form.' Daily Mail 'One of the most reliable purveyors of brain-engaged fiction at work today! he is too good a writer not to nail us! diverting stuff.' Daily Express 'Crichton has certainly done his research! his alarm is hard to dispute! compelling! extremely funny.' Sunday Times 'Be very afraid! expertly blending science fact with fiction, Crichton sets up mind-boggling scenarios where doctors, lawyers, scientists and big business play God! the pace and intrigue last to the final page.' News of the World '"Next" is 'The Da Vinci Code' with smarts. Own up, your guilty pleasure holiday reading awaits.' SFX 'Gripping' Zoo 'If you're curious about the world of genetic engineering, this is the novel for you! thought-provoking and at times frighteningly real, 'Next' is a demanding but enjoyable read.' Woman 'A satiric polemic! a convincing and scary warning from Crichton' Sunday Times Praise for 'State of Fear': 'A gripping, impeccably researched thriller!we don't get much politically engaged fiction these days. Here is a fine example.' Evening Standard 'Exciting!a master storyteller.' Sunday Telegraph 'Terrific! the pages whip by.' Independent 'An enviromental adventure of truly global proportions!it's intelligent, readable and guaranteed to get the grey matter going.' Mirror 'An action-packed page-turner.' Daily Mail 'An entertaining thriller stimulating debate.' Time Out
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`Crichton has certainly done his research... his alarm is hard to dispute... compelling... extremely funny
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting but not intriguing,
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This review is from: Next (Hardcover)
Next is not a typical Crichton novel. It's full of the high tech, cutting edge science of genes and how their misuse in medical procedure will affect the world we live in. The central theme is very sound and will keep you captivated. This is just as well, since there is no strong plot line to keep you reading. There are too many characters, very vaguely (and improbably) connected, all with connections to the gene modification industry or affected by it in some way. Next is not a book that can be picked up and put down since it's difficult to keep up with the plethora of story-lines, and because only the animal based strands stand out, it is difficult to remember where the other threads are going - in fact, there are quite a few dead ends. Crichton is shoehorning in stories to emphasize his viewpoint on the wayward use of gene experimentation, it's interesting reading, but there is none of the compulsive reading that he has created previously.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Bit of a let down,
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This review is from: Next (Hardcover)
I absolutely love every Michael Crichton book I've ever read, and was so excited when this came out. However I feel quite let down, it didn't have a really good story like Timeline, or Airframe, the characters jumped from one to the other too much, and you had to keep thinking, 'now who's he again'. The plot was disjointed and I felt like I was being preached to too much.
There were bits that were excellent, and it wasn't completely awful, just not as good as his other books. Read Jurassic Park and you'll see how good he can be, whilst still warning us about the misuse of genetics.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Silly, boring and unattractively bitter,
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This review is from: Next (Hardcover)
You always used to be able to guarantee that a Michael Crighton book would have a team of specialists investigating a corporations Frankenstein concept. I don't want to shock you, but there is NO TEAM in Next. Instead we get a bewildering array of characters that are all coincidently interconnected by an immoral genetics company. It took me a 100 or so pages to work out who was who, and by the time I had done I realised that I couldn't care less, especially because the story involved super-intelligent parrots and the difficulties of schooling a monkey. It sounds stupid and it is. This is a comedy with intellectual pretensions from the Ben Elton school of writing, and like that English scribe Crichton's nasty streak is constantly bubbling under the surface. There's about 50 pages of Crighton-esque page-turning brilliance near the end but nowt else.
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