- MP3 CD
- Publisher: Harper; MP3 Una edition (Nov 23 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0061284319
- ISBN-13: 978-0061284311
- Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 113 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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- #11 in Books > Audiobooks > Audio CDs > Authors, A-Z > ( C ) > Crichton, Michael
- #55 in Books > Audiobooks > Mystery & Thrillers > Thriller
- #75 in Books > Mystery & Thrillers > Audiobooks > Cassette > Thriller
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From Publishers Weekly
Do you own your body's cells? If a doctor develops a cure for a disease using your cells in the process, are you entitled to a share of the profits? These are some of the questions Crichton explores in his latest science-as-boogeyman polemic. Baker does all he can to give life to the characters, but they are little more than tools to convey the plot, so the author leaves him little to work with. Baker subtly shifts the tone of his voice to distinguish between characters and deftly alters the cadence of his speech to keep the narrative flowing. Despite his best efforts, though, Baker cannot turn the nonfiction interludes between chapters into anything remotely interesting. As if these weren't distracting enough, the multiple subplots make it quite difficult to keep track of what's going on, or how one plot line relates to another. Reading a book that goes in this many directions would be difficult enough, but on audio it's almost impossible to follow. Baker's performance is excellent all around, but listeners hoping Crichton would return to Jurassic Park form will be left wanting.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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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 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 fun. 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 Praise for 'Prey': 'One of the most ingenious, inventive thriller writers around! another high-concept treat!written in consummate page-turning style!fascinating.' Observer 'This is Crichton on top form.' The Times Praise for 'Prey': 'Mixing cutting-edge science with thrills and spills, this is classic Crichton.' Daily Mirror 'Reading Crichton is like taking a speed-reading course, your eyes flying across the page because you're completely gripped and desperate to know what's going to happen next.' Time Out
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4.0 out of 5 stars
An important, timely novel but not without its flaws,
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This review is from: Next (Hardcover)
Michael Crichton does in Next what he's always done so well in his novels- he explores the scientifically possible and shows us how our decisions to use (or misuse) new technologies can lead to unintended, even disastrous consequences.Although a case could be made that there are enough characters and plotlines in Next for three or four novels, Crichton's intentions seem to be to deliberately overwhelm us with the dizzying pace of genetic research and all the opportunities for both tremendous good and alarming malevolence in its application. A true Pandora's box in that our scientific curiosity can sometimes get the better of us, the more we learn how to tinker with the very building blocks of life, the more temptations we face to play God. And as Crichton correctly demonstrates in his multi-layered novel, these temptations will not be meted out in some easily digestible fashion, they will come screaming at us in ever increasing numbers until our ability to distinguish the good from the bad is overwhelmed. And just like those multitude of spirits Pandora set free, there will be no going back into the box- discoveries might be lost, but they aren't unmade, particularly ones of this significance and magnitude. The upside in Next: the end to most diseases and genetic defects is finally within sight. The downside: with all the money involved, there comes a loss of individual privacy and even certain freedoms. Crichton's first question: are these remarkable discoveries truly worth the price? Crichton's next two questions: will we ever really know the answer to the first question, and will it come too late? One misstep on Crichton's part: the abrupt switches between story lines- he makes readers work harder than they should have to in order to follow along. But given the timeliness and importance of the story, it's worth the extra effort even though the problem could have been mitigated by some restructuring. Nonetheless, as thrilling as anything he's ever written- made even more dramatic by the potential for some of it to come true, and sooner rather than later- Next is a worthy read. -Mark Wakely, author of An Audience for Einstein
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Please read this.,
By Abbyfry (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Next (Hardcover)
Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions, and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect. The future is closer than you think. Get used to it. Also read Demello's THE KILLING GAME for another great book.
4.0 out of 5 stars
WISECRACKING GREY PARROTS & GREY ETHICAL AREAS,
By NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in geosynchronous orbit) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME) (TOP 10 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Next (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the best of Crichton and the worse of Crichton. Ever since the ANDROMEDA STRAIN, this is the writer that rides not just the zeitgeist wave but the very edge of biomedical breakthroughs - and makes great novels on the issues they raise. The SPHERE, CONGO, JURASSIC PARK are all excellent biothrillers. In NEXT he seems to have managed the first but neglected the later.This is collection of loosely related stories, all linked in some way or the other to either transgenic organisms or gene patenting; and all dosed under the light of the human science...being, well, all too human. Family obligations, personal choices, ambition, shortsightedness and pure greed bear much more influence on the outcome of the scientific process than most scientists will ever admit. I should know, I am a NeuroBiologist myself... I found NEXT to be quite interesting, and eagerly followed some of the story-lines in the early morning hours. Yet, at the same time, there was no backbone to the story other than the cautionary message. This made the novel, at first to give the feeling of never-actually-taking-off, only to finally turn into an informative episodic collection of characters I hardly cared for. This is, at most, a 3.5 stars novel. I rounded it up (rather than down) because of the great books Crichton has given us in the past. My advise to Michael Crichton would be "no writer is big enough to totally ignore his editors".
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