this is the first Michael Crichton book i read and i loved it.

the whole idea of being sent down to the darkness of the ocean is very scary and with the amount of things that can go wrong in an underwater facility.
i also thought the whole idea of the Sphere to be very interesting and the way how Crichton writes these complex ideas in simple terms is done really well.

this book was very fun for the thrills and for the thought provoking subjects. i wont spoil anything but the ending can be thought of in different ways wish i personally liked. a great start to my Michael Crichton journey ( )

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Good pageturner. Got a little too weird there for a while. ( )

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This is the third Crichton I've read that underwhelmed, and I think it heralds the end of my Crichton reading. Like other reviewers, I think there is a solid framework for the story - unidentified spacecraft with mysterious, if recognizable features, discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, investigated by a team of scientists at the top of their fields. But the story devolves into psychology and philosophy debates once too often, and the entity doesn't end up that frightening in the long run. Made into a film version in the late 90s, and maybe that was the better way to tell the story. And maybe that's the problem for Crichton in the long run - good ideas with a problem fleshing them out with real meat for the length of a novel as opposed to a screenplay.

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