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Rising Sun
  

Rising Sun (Hardcover)

de Michael Crichton (Author)
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A young American model is murdered in the corporate boardroom of Los Angeles's Nakomoto Tower on the new skyscraper's gala opening night. Murdered, that is, unless she was strangled while enjoying sadomasochistic sex that went too far. Nakomoto, a Japanese electronics giant, tries to hush up the embarrassing incident, setting in motion a murder investigation that serves Crichton ( Jurassic Park ) as the platform for a clever, tough-talking harangue on the dangers of Japanese economic competition and influence-peddling in the U.S. Divorced LAPD lieutenant Peter Smith, who has custody of his two-year-old daughter, and hard-boiled detective John Connor, who says things like "For a Japanese, consistent behavior is not possible," pursue the killer in a winding plot involving Japan's attempt to gain control of the U.S. computer industry. Although Crichton's didactic aims are often at cross-purposes with his storytelling, his entertaining, well-researched thriller cannot be easily dismissed as Japan-bashing because it raises important questions about that country's adversarial trade strategy and our inadequate response to it. He also provides a fascinating perspective on how he thinks the Japanese view Americans--as illiterate, childish, lazy people obsessed with TV, violence and aggressive litigation. 225,000 first printing; BOMC main selection.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.

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YA-- The celebrity-studded opening of a huge Japanese office building is marred by the murder of a beautiful American woman. Lt. Peter Smith is called in to investigate and is requested to bring along John Connor, an expert on Japanese culture and fluent in the language. So begins a riveting tale that combines suspense, technology, and a full-scale economic battle for survival. YAs will have no problem following the complex corporate business schemes described by Crichton, whose loyalties are obviously with America. Readers who fear that the Japanese are taking over the U. S. economy will not be reassured.
- Katherine Fitch, Lake Braddock Secondary School, Burke, VA
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 Dark Foreshadowing of Present Times, Oct. 19 2008
This review is from: Rising Sun (Mass Market Paperback)
During current times when the whole economic structure of our country is in collapse and when presidential candidates speak of the middle class like it's an endangered species, one should read or perhaps reread this book. It sets a murder mystery in a time when the Japanese were buying up many American businesses although the Japanese were not alone in doing this (Germans, British, etc, etc). They were taking their newly acquired companies and often reincorporating them in places like Luxembourg that could provide large tax advantages (i.e. less tax income for the US). The book suggests that these practices weakened the economic spine of this country. The murder mystery itself is set against some rather interesting cultural aspects that lend some interesting qualities.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 Rising Sun is a miss, Jui 15 2004
Par Sarah Sammis "Avid BookCrosser" (Hayward, CA United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Rising Sun (Mass Market Paperback)
Michael Crichton's books are hit or miss. Rising Sun is a miss. I think it's supposed to be taking place during the mid to late 1980s when there was an influx of Japanese business ventures in the United States -- especially in California. I remember the xenophobic response from some people of my parents age and especially of people my grandparents age (not everyone, of course). As a teenager, I was surprised, confused and later embarrassed by the reactions of my relatives.

Rising Sun is clearly playing into those sentiments and frankly I don't like it. Both cultures, American and Japanese in this book are reduced to stereotypal representations making for a boring, predicatable and insulting read.

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1.0étoiles sur 5 A disappointment, Avril 18 2004
Par Marie Dorego (Pittsburgh, PA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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Instead of being an engaging novel, Rising Sun was a political platform from which to vent about the disintegration of the American economy at the hands of the Japanese. In an attempt to make this long-winded speech into a ficticious "story", the author offers us faded characters, and dialouge that is unimaginative, listless, and after a while, irritating.

The murder of the young Japanese woman...the event from which the novel supposedly emerged, is apparently still a mystery..an occurance with no meaning, no relevance, and no motivation. This was a disasterous divergence from the author's usual genre.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Special services liaison
To the Japanese business is war by other means. What is the Nakamoto murder and 12 years after this book's writing can it still hold a reader's attention? Read more
Publié le Avril 12 2004 par Mary E. Sibley

4.0étoiles sur 5 Not as good as the movie
I never thought I would say that, especially with a Crichton novel, but this one was really not as good as the movie. Read more
Publié le Avril 7 2004 par Daniel Grossberg

5.0étoiles sur 5 Fantastic !!!
Great read. we get a good peak at japanese customs and the financial tech rivaly betwen the US and the Japs. Good fun. Read more
Publié le Mars 3 2004 par Vikram Ramanathan

4.0étoiles sur 5 Rising Sun rises above other murder mysteries
LAPD lieutenant Peter J. Smith was watching the Lakers game while listening to a Japanese vocabulary tape when he received a call that would shatter his peaceful evening... Read more
Publié le Fév 17 2004 par Anthony Yu

5.0étoiles sur 5 Kohai!!!!!!
After finishing this book, I let out a big breath, probably the first one in over 3 hours, as I could not stop reading this book for its(no pun intended)breathtaking plot and... Read more
Publié le Déc 2 2003 par Will Culp

4.0étoiles sur 5 Riveting, informative
A beautiful young call girl is murdered in the corporate boardroom of Nakamoto Towers in Los Angeles, during a gala event of the Japanese giant company - Nakamoto. Read more
Publié le Sep 11 2003 par deepbits

2.0étoiles sur 5 engaging, but soggy and dated
Crichton departs from his usual formula in "Rising Sun", and the changes are not good ones. Read more
Publié le Aoû 21 2003 par erica

4.0étoiles sur 5 Interesting Book
In the 80s the big American fear, especially in California, was that the Japanese businesses were going to take over. Read more
Publié le Juil 7 2003 par MISTER SJEM

4.0étoiles sur 5 Wonderfully Engaging
From reading some of his other novels, I already knew that Michael Crichton is a great storyteller. After finishing Rising Sun, I can also say that he is adept at handling... Read more
Publié le Jui 24 2003 par Kevin Keigwin

5.0étoiles sur 5 Michael Crichton's Japanese Murder Thriller!
Because I picked this book out of the fiction section, it was a bit different than I expected. This novel is pretty much a murder mystery, and I very much enjoyed reading it,... Read more
Publié le Jui 20 2003 par Stephen J. Carlson

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