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Micro
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
35 posts | 52 read | 27 to read
In a locked office building in Honolulu, three men are found dead, with no sign of struggle except for ultrafine, razorsharp cuts covering their bodies.In the lush rain forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Here seven brilliant graduate students, recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up company, are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising dangers at every turn. Prey to a technology of radical and unbridled powerarmed only with their knowledge of the natural worldthey must harness the inherent forces of nature itself to survive.Melding scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction in vintage Michael Crichton fashioncompleted by visionary science writer Richard PrestonMicro is an instant classic of sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment.
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TheBookgeekFrau
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love maps! 🗺️ 8mo
Eggs Lovely 🤍🖤🤍 8mo
annahenke Oh that‘s a lovely map! 8mo
TheBookgeekFrau @annahenke One to get lost in 🤩 8mo
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TheBookgeekFrau
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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Mehso-so

What could possibly go wrong with shrinking people down to half an inch and sending them into the rainforests of Oahu to study the soil?

18/62

March #Doublespin @TheAromaofBooks

#MountTBR #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

Reggie Hmmmm who wore it best? Honey I Shrunk the Kids or this? 🤔 Lol 8mo
TheBookgeekFrau @Reggie 😂😂 Honey, I Shrunk The Kids wins by a nose 😆 8mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 8mo
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 8mo
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TheBookgeekFrau
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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"West of Pearl Harbor, he drove along the Farrington Highway past fields of sugar cane, dark green in the moonlight."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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TheBookgeekFrau
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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A little coffee, a little reading

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TheBookgeekFrau
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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Eggs Perfect ❤️🖤❤️ 10mo
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CatMS
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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A guilty pleasure, Michael Crichton and Richard Preston....how lucky can a girl get!! A bit unbelievable, but what Crichton book isn't. So far it's a thrilling ride.

This was thrilling. Unfortunately Crichton passed away while writing this book, Richard Preston, author of "The Hot Zone" about the discovery of ebola virus and "The Wild Trees" on the Northern California redwoods both of which I read and are excellent, was elected to complete.

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WorldsOkayestStepMom
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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Pickpick

Solid pick for Crichton fans!

Parvez Crichton never disappoints. Loved almost all his works.
1y
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Twainy
Micro | Michael Crichton
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Pickpick

🎧 I love bad B-movies 😈

A cross between Jurassic Park & Honey I Shrunk the Kids.

I‘ve seen worse movies about miniaturized people & loved them 😂

8 students are lured to Hawaii to check out a potential future job at a Bio Tech firm. Megalomaniacal owner shrinks them & then tries to kill them with micro machines 🤣

Many people die. He may have written better but he‘s definitely written worse!

I enjoyed this B-movie level story.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/3

The_Penniless_Author "He may have written better, but he's definitely written worse" is pretty close to my ideal epitaph for when I finally kick the bucket ? 3y
Twainy @The_Penniless_Author I‘ve been looking for something like this book for awhile. Scary, sort of campy/B-movie-ish, descriptively technical ... it hit all of the high points I needed. I currently have a library loan that started as a recommendation a year ago. No idea why I rec‘d it 😫 3y
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Jari-chan
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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Mehso-so

Book Nr 20 off my #BookSpinBingo board

Walt Disney meets Michael Crichton

I liked the scientific details in this one. Just as always with Crichton there's a lot to learn, while reading a catchy story.

But he sure has better books. The characters were introduced to fast and I couldn't really connect to any of them.

#24b4Monday time: 11.10 hours

@TheAromaofBooks @Andrew65

Andrew65 Doing great 👏👏👏 4y
Jari-chan @Andrew65 Thank you 😊 4y
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 4y
Jari-chan @TheAromaofBooks Thank you ❤️ 4y
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Luulit
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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https://www.luulit.com/product/micro-a-novel-audible-audiobook-unabridged/

In Jurassic Park, he created a terrifying new world. Now, in Micro, Michael Crichton reveals a universe too small to see and too dangerous to ignore.

In a locked Honolulu office building, three men are found dead with no sign of struggle except for the ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies....

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Jari-chan
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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This is my #SeptemberTBR - well, part of it 😁
Let's get September started!

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Naz786
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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Pickpick

⭐⭐⭐/5

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Jennaree3
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
Pickpick

Read this one in about 3 days. It‘s like Honey I Shrunk the Kids meets Jurassic Park. Some parts were a little out there and the plot didn‘t feel as solid as Crichton novels usually are.

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Buechersuechtling
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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I don‘t participate in those #24b4Monday readathons often – but may I record my approximately 4 hours of listening to this❓🤔 @SumisBooks @Andrew65 @jb72

Last night, I woke up at 3 a.m. and could not find back to sleep till around 6:30 a.m. Therefore I continued listening – and technically it was already Friday morning … May I count the time even if I didn‘t use a stop-clock ⏱❓

jb72 Yes absolutely! You don‘t have to use a stop watch. 5y
Buechersuechtling @jb72 Brilliant‼️ Thanks for your very fast answer. 🙇🏽‍♀️ Littens, I‘m in. Let the reading continue‼️😃 5y
Andrew65 Yes most definitely, great to have you with us and a good start. A very easy, laid back and relaxed readathon. 👏👏👏 5y
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Buechersuechtling
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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I was really impressed by the biological details and knowledge of “Micro”.

I loved how it created respect for nature and here and there might have adjusted the attitude of one reader or another by a “simple” change of perspective. 😍 Additional it was cool that who I thought to be the main one among the protagonists shifted since the authors had no pity with all of them. 👏🏼

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Buechersuechtling
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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Pickpick

I can see why some of you have issues with it. It‘s long time since my last Crichton but even I think this one lacks a bit of technical explanation.

Overall I felt vindicated in my notion that there is a reason why some creatures are smaller than others. I always thought I‘d run away scared from a housefly if it had about my height.

There were times were the plot really frightened and strongly shuddered me – but I always wanted to continue.

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Buechersuechtling
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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From the book „Reading educates", in this case also known as “Micro”:

“On the eyelashes of about half of all people live mites.”

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Buechersuechtling
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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I just might have gotten a clue, why there is quite famous enterprise is called Tesla. It might have something to do with magnetism and very strong magnets.

So, don‘t say that you can‘t learn something from popular scientific – maybe, but not quite sure yet – pseudo scientific novels.

To all those who raise a finger and tell me that I should have learnt this in school: Sigh, sciences weren‘t my strong suit, would you have guessed it❓😉

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Buechersuechtling
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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Follow up:

I mean, it‘s not as if the whole characters are running around in that audiobook talking, gathering, and doing things all the time.
No. 🤥
But that scene I described was the first one where I kind of realised what they were doing. 🤐

Texreader I‘ve been doing the same thing when I watch tv. I‘m like: “What are you doing so close to each other?!?” 5y
Buechersuechtling @Texreader Okay, I‘m very thankful I‘m not the only one. I already thought I‘d start to be a bit over the top, you know. 5y
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Buechersuechtling
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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Littens, seems I adapt to the current situation pretty fast. There was a scene in this audiobook where the woman asks if the brother of someone who – assumingly – just has died wants to go with her for a drink because the Mai-Tai they have there is said to be pretty good.

Honestly, the first thing I thought was: “Noooooo, don‘t go out 😱, avoid crowds, it‘s social-distancing-time and don‘t you want to protect others and yourself⁉️”

Buechersuechtling @Come-read-with-me Yepp, I also was kind of 🤦🏽‍♀️ when I realised what I was seriously thinking there. 5y
Jennaree3 Lol I was thinking “if he doesn‘t want to go, I will” 4y
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Buechersuechtling
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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Started yesterday night and continued this morning while having an extensive, lush breakfast of a boiled egg 🥚, cereals with yoghurt and chestnut 🌰 honey 🍯, toast with marmalade and hot coffee.

I‘m one hour in and already so curious‼️ Before posting I scrolled through the related posts and was a bit disappointed seeing quite a lot of mixed reviews, one by @RamsFan1963 among them. 😉 Still, I won‘t minimise my hopes.

Happy reading Sunday all‼️

Jari-chan Michael Crichton is one of my favourite authors 😊 Haven't read this one, though. 5y
Buechersuechtling When “Jurassic Park” was big, I had a Michael-Crichton-phase that someday subsided. But from what I can say after a bit more than one hour is: “Yes, he does it again.” 5y
RamsFan1963 @Buechersuechtling It might be be better as an audiobook. Compared to other Crichton books, like The Andromeda Strain, The Eaters of the Dead, Prey or Next, I just found it pretty lightweight. Better than Pirate Latitudes. 5y
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Andrea Ardito
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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Just found again this book. I do not know what to do: I always loved Crichton, but some friends of mine told me this book is not good as Congo or Jurassic Park, so now I am in doubt.

What do you believe? Should I give it a try?

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Alicepondpoe
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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Bailedbailed

I tried really hard to like this as it was was my first Michael Crichton book. It gets bogged down in the specific details of the students experiments and the Nanigen technology. I was skimming past quiet a few paragraphs. It also felt sloppily written, using the last names of the characters every other sentence or so. I really wanted to like this book, I've only bailed on a handful of books in my life, but halfway in I still couldnt like it.

Megabooks This is like the worst Crichton. My fav is 5y
Alicepondpoe @Megabooks I'll get Timeline next time I'm at the library and give it a go. It sounds super interesting. 5y
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Alicepondpoe
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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I'm feeling lousy with depression lately. Can't seem to snap out of it. This is my first Michael Crichton novel, I've heard good and bad. I keep setting it down and just staring at it thinking "I sure do want to read you"

Reggie I hope you feel better! 6y
Traci1 I hope you can find some enjoyment in the book. I love Crichton, though I've never read that one. 6y
Alicepondpoe @Reggie thank you. @Traci1 I'm trying, I keep reading a few pages then I set it down. 6y
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RamsFan1963
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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Mehso-so

It makes me sad that this has to be the last book I'll read by Michael Crichton, because I've enjoyed so many of his books in the past, and sadly this one isnt up to snuff. The shrinking science is never really explained, and that annoyed me. Something about magnets and compression waves. I expected more

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ToriE18
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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My #BookHaul from my towns local library book sale. All books are $1! I love book sales 😊

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RamsFan1963
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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I'm wearily approaching this novel, knowing Crichton died before finishing it. Will it be good like Next or lame like Pirate Latitudes?

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Phlamboyant
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston

One of these authors doesn't want you to forget that the characters have last names. Just in case you do, they are mentioned several times a chapter, if not several times a page.

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Phlamboyant
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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I'm a little wary picking up this last book of Chrichton's, as I am most books completed by secondary authors, but map! There's just something about a #bookmap.

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DMC_run8
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
Mehso-so

The ending was a bit confusing. Found out later that the book was finished by another author. Crichton's other books are much better.

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yvil
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
Pickpick

What drew me to this book was the setting. I lived in Hawaii and loved it there. So seeing a map of Oahu and having the book take place up in Tantalus and the Pali, places I often found myself hiking and hanging out, definitely piqued my interest. Definitely did not disappoint. Amazing book! ....... mid2016

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katcalvin
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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When you can't decide which books to take on your three day trip to Las Vegas...

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HotMessJess
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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Pickpick

#AugustPhotoChallenge My favorite collab- sadly done because the world lost an incredible author, is Micro. A fun, fast collab by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston. I associate Micro with our fam's Lake Tahoe cabin, sunshine and of course Hot Mess Jessness. #mountainsfordays

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Classic_Wirginia
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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I had to fight to not buy more books since I only had a little cash on me. Crichton and Gladwell's books have been a staple for a few years and I've never read a bad one.

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HotMessJess
Micro | Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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Mehso-so

Throwing it back today- husband also catching me in my natural habitat- reading on our deck, taking a break. Micro was great, but the moment Crichton stops, the book changed. Would recommend, definitely a lot of twists! Always loved his writing though. Fond memories associated with this book!