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Clancy is becoming a bit of a curmudgeon in his old age. He's still up there with the best when he's writing about shooting or dropping bombs on people, but he's started padding out the books with a lot more preaching (in some cases literally), and that's a lot less fun in anybody's book. Clancy may know military hardware, but he doesn't show any evidence of being familiar with any other technology. Binary code, while it is the object code that computers actually use, isn't measured in lines. He fundamentally misunderstands the concept of a computer virus. Digital telephone switches weren't around in the 1950s, and trap doors tend to get found, particularly when people poke at them for thirty years. Yes, a proper operating system can... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Michael Crichton diverts from his usual writings of well-researched fiction into the writing of well-researched (mostly) non-fiction with his retelling of one of the biggest stories in the history of Victorian London: The Great Train Robbery. He tells of all the preparations, and takes the reader along with the criminal mastermind setting up every detail of the robbery, taking the time to build the almost perfect crime. The crime works (as we all know from history) but the thief gets arrested anyway because of someone talking too much. The style of Crichton, researching every detail and using that in a story without having those details hold up the story works out great in this book.
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This little book has an essay at the front by Leo Castelli, the legendary New York art dealer who in the late 1950s snapped up the young Jasper Johns for his stable of new artists--nearly all of whom became wildly successful. Most of the rest of the book is like a snapshot album, immersing the reader in pictures of Johns, his studio, his paintings, and historical artifacts. These last include the Art News magazine cover of 1958 that put Johns on the map. Speaking of maps, there are reproductions of Johns's famous U.S. maps, and also of his targets and the late double shadow, crosshatch paintings. In the back of the book, there is a brief chro... Rest of this review on the detail page
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I've read multiple Crichton books and the thing that I found 'not very Crichton' in this book was the fact that people die in it. Otherwise the quality and style in books we expect from Chrichton. A very intense set of things happening within a reasonable short timeframe, which leaves the reader thinking at the end 'all this happened in this short amount of time?' This book has more 'psychological thriller' to it than other Crichton books. The reader follows a set of scientists and starts to discover things about them that are unexpected when they are subjected to a strange environment. Must read? Maybe. For a Chrichton fan: yes. For others: maybe.
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The Horse Whisperer is a story made in Hollywood heaven. The novel was written by a first-time author, and the film option was snapped up by aging heartthrob Robert Redford for 3 million smackers. Why take such risks on a brand-spanking-new author? The answer becomes clear upon reading the touching tale. One morning while teenage Grace Maclean is riding Pilgrim, her goofy, loveable pony, she has a horrendous glass-shattering, bone-splintering, ligament-lynching meeting with a megaton truck that leaves her and her four-legged friend damaged in mind, body, and spirit. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, her jaded, brilliant, bitchy mom, Annie Graves (Kristin... Rest of this review on the detail page
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