so-soWhat could possibly go wrong with shrinking people down to half an inch and sending them into the rainforests of Oahu to study the soil?
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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.
pickSolid pick for Crichton fans!
pick🎧 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
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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.
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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....
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 ⏱❓
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. 👏🏼
pickI 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.
From the book „Reading educates", in this case also known as “Micro”:
“On the eyelashes of about half of all people live mites.”
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❓😉
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. 🤐
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⁉️”
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‼️
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?
bailedI 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.
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"
so-soIt 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
I'm wearily approaching this novel, knowing Crichton died before finishing it. Will it be good like Next or lame like Pirate Latitudes?
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.
pickWhat 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
pick#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
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.
so-soThrowing 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!
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