Commentaires client les plus utiles
|
|
5.0étoiles sur 5
A fascinating read. Edge of your seat suspenseful!, Juil 15 2004
At 260 pages, this is a fairly short book. Short or not, this book packs a wallop! I could not stop turning the pages. Crichton knows how to build suspense and develop characters. I found myself emotionally invested in the characters and I enjoyed reading about the scientific aspects as well. As with most Crichton novels, this is about science gone haywire due to unforeseen circumstances. This formula could easily become tired and worn, but Crichton always applies this formula from new and interesting angles. In this case he details how a patient is implanted with a device for controlling violent seizures. Not long after, the patient learns to control the device which sends him on a homicidal spree. The doctors who implanted the device are in hot pursuit leading to a dramatic and nail-biting ending. I recommend this book to anyone who is a Crichton fan or anyone looking for a quick, fun-to-read, sci-fi thriller.
Aidez d'autres clients à trouver les commentaires les plus utiles
Ce commentaire vous a-t-il été utile ?
 
|
|
|
|
|
|
5.0étoiles sur 5
Very interesting...., Juil 8 2004
The Terminal Man is a pretty old novel, but it stills stands the test of time. This novel came out in the 70's, and some of the events in this novel seem a little far-fetched in those times, and kind of understandable in these current times.
Harry Benson has violent blackouts where he attacks people and does not remember what happens. So when Dr. Pherson decides to operate on Harry Benson to stop the blackouts, he plants a soft of pacemaker for the brain to stop it. The operation goes successful, but Harry Benson is soft of a paranoid individual who thinks that computers are taking over the world. Harry is a programmer, so he has that kind of thought running through his head. The operation has proven successful with chimps, except that they snatch out the wires, so this is their first time doing it on a human. The sort of pacemaker is about as big as a pack of cigarette's and is implanted in his shoulder. The thing works as sending shocks to the brain where it gives off sort of like a good signal. Then something goes wrong. Harry now knows how to get the good shocks by himself, and escapes from the hospital. Now they are on the lookout for him, it is then that he tries to kill one of the female doctors who worked on him, and kills a stripper who brought him earlier a black wig and a couple of other things. He kills her also. While on the lookout for him, he sneaks back into the hospital and hides in the basement to destroy the huge computer they have there. Eventually he is found and killed. Though the novel is pretty old, some of the things discussed in this novel are actually real. There is a sort of device that is to help people with depression like the same things discussed in this novel. This is a good novel, short, but it still worth reading.
Aidez d'autres clients à trouver les commentaires les plus utiles
Ce commentaire vous a-t-il été utile ?
|
|
|
|
|
|
4.0étoiles sur 5
Man into machine, Avril 4 2004
In a tightly written novel, Michael Crichton explores the world of psychosurgery and how a pioneering experiment on a badly chosen subject goes disastrously wrong.Harry Benson is a computer scientist living a quiet, uneventful life until he was involved in a devastating car accident on the freeway which left him brain-damaged and psychotic. Now he suffers from increasingly frequent episodes of psychomotor epilepsy during which he explodes in violence. A hospital team has developed a treatment that they think may help him: by implanting electrodes in his brain, they can short-circuit a seizure before it starts and prevent the violent episodes. But Dr. Janet Ross, Benson's psychiatrist, and her mentor, Dr. Manon, have serious reservations. Benson's psychosis has caused him have a morbid dread that machines are taking over the world. Having a micro-computer implanted into his brain may cause him to feel that the doctors have turned him into a machine. Harry isn't going to like that. And when Harry is upset, all kinds of unpleasant things can happen. In "The Terminal Man", Crichton explores a theme was the focus of his later best-seller "Jurassic Park": just because a scientific experiment can be done doesn't mean it should be. The doctors at Benson's hospital are gung-ho over this experiment; they've been looking for a subject to test it out on and Benson seems perfect. But Benson isn't a laboratory rat; he's highly intelligent and learns how to control the micro-computer implanted in his brain cells until soon he's having almost continuous stimulations. At this point, he tips over, and the ensuing mayhem proves that Ross's worst fears were more than justified. "The Terminal Man" suffers from Crichton's trademark lack of characterization; his characters are cardboard cutouts who don't really engage us; we aren't interested in them as people. But he's one helluva storyteller, and he knows how to explain scientific complexities to lay readers in terms that make the whole thing comprehensible. (I've always thought Crichton would make a great high school science teacher for that very reason.) His annotated bibliography at the end of the book includes thirty-six references for further reading in psychomotor epilepsy, and six for electronics. Well, most of Crichton's readers aren't neurosurgeons or rocket scientists, we're just looking for a good book that holds our interest; and on this score, Crichton delivers.
Aidez d'autres clients à trouver les commentaires les plus utiles
Ce commentaire vous a-t-il été utile ?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Commentaires client les plus récents
|
de Michael Crichton
de Michael Crichton
de Michael Crichton
de Michael Crichton
de Michael Crichton
