Congo

Nice to read

Superb journey into the amazon jungle...thrills are daily routine in this novel... My first novel. Good pace

Worst of his books, worst of his movies.

Great great great book! I loved it. I stayed up for 3 night in a row not being able to put it down!!

Although we know almost all books are better than the movies, this one really takes the cake. I saw the movie first, which almost caused me to not read the book at all. Im so glad, however, that i did.

enjoyed it but was not left wanting more.

This was a great book, VERY action packed!

Good sci-fi book with a little Rider Haggard thrown in. It also follows the simple 3 act structure which is nice, and does it well. It was a little anti-climatic, or rather simplistically climatic, but it all worked, and I should have guessed it. I really enjoyed the epilogue. What Crichton seems to do really well, though, is blend reality with fiction. He also made some pretty cool...more

Good sci-fi book with a little Rider Haggard thrown in. It also follows the simple 3 act structure which is nice, and does it well. It was a little anti-climatic, or rather simplistically climatic, but it all worked, and I should have guessed it. I really enjoyed the epilogue. What Crichton seems to do really well, though, is blend reality with fiction. He also made some pretty cool predictions in the book...which is the best part of sci-fi.   hide

Not too brilliant..I especially found parts of the book quite boring..but worth a read anyway.