by Michael Crichton
Aside from the obvious puns about how this was the Next book I was going to read, and that my wife was going to read it Next.... So this was one of the least enjoyable Michael Crichton books out there. All about genetics, genetically modifying organisms, gene editing, gene therapy, etcetera. ...
It was a. ok book. I received it as a present and it was light reading. I thought the plot was not very complex.
1.5Next is a very well-researched book. And that’s the only good thing I can say about it.The characters were too many and too unmemorable; I forgot nearly all of them as soon as they were mentioned. The stuff on stem-cells and genes and biotechnology was excruciatingly boring. The story was over-ex...
DNFAbandon ship! A case of too many characters, scene changes and my growing boredom led to this sad state of affairs.
Most of the characters in this story were not very likable, so for that I would have given it a 2. However, Crichton's newspaper excerpts (oh, the wit!) and engaging subject matter were enough to raise it to maybe a 3.5. Most people, it seems, would probably not enjoy this book much, but I thought i...
Nobody can take complicated, completely non-understandable scientific jargon and make it seem easy better than Michael Crichton. This is a fantastic book on where the future of genetics and biotechnology may lead us....parrots with near human intelligence, apes that have human genes in them and can...
Interesting stuff, humorous at times, but not nearly as good as what we have come to expect from Michael Crichton.
Crichton did a great job with Next. It wasn't my favorite novel by him, that would probably be Jurassic Park, but he did a great job building on what he started with JP highlighting some of the power and dangers of genetics.
The cast of characters is vast. I spent far too much time trying to keep track of them. This book is not about characters. It is a novel about ideas, and the characters are there to illustrate the underlying concepts. What if private corporations are able to copyright genetic information? The implic...
The book read like a laundry list of exaggerated claims about the evils of genetics. While I'm sure genetics are not the end all be all that the media and science sometime portray it as, I'm equally sure it's not as bad as Chricton depicted. A more balanced book would have been much more interesting...
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