State of Fear
In Tokyo, in Los Angeles, in Antarctica, in the Solomon Islandsan intelligence agent races to put all the pieces together to prevent a global catastrophe. Read State of Fear – kino-fada.fr I never expected to read this book But my mom left a copy of Michael Crichton s book State of Fear at my house, and I found myself reading it The book is an odd mix of fiction and pseudo scientific argument As a fiction piece, it s actually okay For reasons that are irrelevant to the plot, evil villains are trying to shear a big iceberg off into the ocean, create a flash flood in a canyon, and make a tidal wave hit LA The good guys are of course trying to stop them, and manage to stop them I never expected to read this book But my mom left a copy of Michael Crichton s book State of Fear at my house, and I found myself reading it The book is an odd mix of fiction and pseudo scientific argument As a fiction piece, it s actually okay For reasons that are irrelevant to the plot, evil villains are trying to shear a big iceberg off into the ocean, create a flash flood in a canyon, and make a tidal wave hit LA The good guys are of course trying to stop them, and manage to stop them just in time Crichton s a good writer, and this book is fun to read For a Crichton book, though, it is one of his worst, and nowhere near as entertaining as Andromeda Strain Mostly this is because his rhetorical goal for the novel continually gets in the way of the plot The central argument of the book seems to be It s not clear global warming i...The threat of global warming is essentially nonexistent Even if it were a real phenomenon, it would probably result in a net benefit to most of the world p407 I just finished reading State of Fear, Michael Crichton s creator of ER and author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and many others latest novel We discussed this a few months ago but I must say this book really is a delicious slap in the face for ill informed environmentalists If you have environmentalist leanings, or think that glo The threat of global warming is essentially nonexistent Even if it were a real phenomenon, it would probably result in a net benefit to most of the world p407 I just finished reading State of Fear, Michael Crichton s creator of ER and author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and many others latest novel We discussed this a few months ago but I must say this book really is a delicious slap in the face for ill informed environmentalists If you have environmentalist leanings, or think that global warming is important, or even real, do yourself a favor and read this book It is an...3.5 starsI can t believe that I am sitting here thinking about this review while Hurricane Sandy s imminence is being trumpeted just outside my door.Makes you think..The story itself is about global warming It s a cautionary tale really On the one hand you have some radical environmentalists scientists who are not above manipulating the environment in order to support their fund raising goals I mean people will dig deeper into their pockets if they have been personally impacted by global wa 3.5 starsI can t believe that I am sitting here thinking about this review while Hurricane Sandy s imminence is being trumpeted just outside my door.Makes you think..The story itself is about global warming It s a cautionary tale really On the one hand you have some radical environmentalists scientists who are not above manipulating the environment in order to support their fund raising goals I mean people will dig deeper into their pockets if they have ...State of Fear is centered around a plot by eco terrorists to bring world attention to global warming by, you guessed it, blowing up half the world Yes, the nonsensical plot that makes up the spine of this book leaves the rest of this skeletal narrative in the hands of a man we ve rarely seen Michael Crichton, political philosopher First of all, the book, released in 2004, asks you to believe that there is a state of fear being pushed on the public in order to scare them into belief of Glo State of Fear is centered around a plot by eco terrorists to bring world attention to global warming by, you guessed it, blowing up half the world Yes, the nonsensical plot that makes up the spine of this book leaves the rest of this skeletal narrative in the hands of a man we ve rarely seen Michael Crichton, political philosopher First of all, the book, released in 2004, asks you to believe that there is a state of fear being pushed on the public in order to scare them into belief of Global Warming so as to wreck the US economy and maintain elitist academia s stranglehold on the world I.F.O.N.L.Y The premise, that politicians, journalists and celebrities use fear tactics to control the population is as old as time itself It is a practice that has been used in the history of every society on the face of the planet at some point, throughout human history That Crichton presents this as a supposedly revolutionary idea is just the start of this n...If you want to write an essay on your opinion of global warming, Mikey, do so Don t disguise it as a novel when you ve only got 10 pages of plot.State of Fear, Michael CrichtonState of Fear is a 2004 techno thriller novel by Michael Crichton in which eco terrorists plot mass murder to publicize the danger of global warming State of Fear is, like many of Crichton s books, a fictional work that uses a mix of speculation and real world data, plus technological innovations as fundamental storyline devices 2014 1 State of Fear, Michael CrichtonState of Fear is a 2004 techno thril...This is propaganda written by an ultra rich person Utterly despicable I just thought Crichton was mediocre until I read this Now I think he s insidious There re 2 basic thrusts Global Warming is a myth ecology activists are phenomenally stupid I don t actually have much of an opinion about global warming one way or the other so I don t hate this novel so much b c it s a threat to mass consciousness there I hate it b c it s so repulsively propagandistic w o any self acknowledgement This is propaganda written by an ultra rich person Utterly despicable I just thought Crichton was mediocre until I read this Now I think he s insidious There re 2 basic thrusts Global Warming is a myth ecology activists are phenomenally stupid I don t actually have much of an opinion about global warming one way or the other so I don t hate this novel so much b c it s a threat to mass consciousness there I hate it b c it s so repul...Exciting book I ve read it 3 times now After reading State of Fear you ll think everyone who believes in global warming is an idiot Definitely read the author s message at the end, it s really interesting.Reread Dec 01, 2014 Thought provoking, controversial, action packed, suspenseful, well researched, outrageous, perhaps a science fiction, as well as fictional science book The plot A lawyer represents a wealthy client who is donating large amount of money to various conservation causes and gets involved in the underworld of power, greed and social manipulation The discovery of a set of GPS points leads to the action packed adventures which becomes the main focus of the drama.CommentsState of Reread Dec 01, 2014 Thought provoking, controversial, action packed, suspenseful, well researched, outrageous, perhaps a science fiction, as well as fictional science book The plot A lawyer represents a wealthy client who is donating large amount of money to various conservation causes and gets involved in the underworld of power, greed and social manipulation The d...As a thriller, this books fails to achieve Cricthon s usual intensity The plot is an obvious vehicle for the rhetoric, and full of predictable thriller writer strategies The premise climate scientists with guns never ceases to feel absurd The characterizations are flatter than usual, and vicious where he means them to be merely satirical There is cranky old man venom in the writing In short, this book is a piece of propaganda and would never have been published were it not for Crichton s As a thriller, this books fails to achieve Cricthon s usual intensity The plot is an obvious vehicle for the rhetoric, and full of predictable thriller writer strategies The premise clim...
- English
- 25 March 2017 Michael Crichton
- Mass Market Paperback
- 672 pages
- 0061015733
- Michael Crichton
- State of Fear