Fun medical thriller. I really enjoyed the action of this story. It was predictable once you started, but some how still held a reader in suspense.

I love michael crichton.

I usually like Michael Crichton books, but this one was a bit too clunky for me and it didn’t like the ending.

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Rather dated this is the tale of a hospital medical research team who attempt to cure an accident victim with brain damage the causes him to become violent on occasion. The patient is a computer engineer with fears that the machines are taking over the world, but has agreed to an operation that will insert needles into his brain to monitor and stimulate certain sections to prevent these outbursts. The probes are connected to a nuclear power pack and a minute computer that monitors and initiates the stimulation. At first it looks as if they are successful, but then things start to go bad and then disastrous. In 1972 when it was written, it was probably cutting edge, but now its is old hat.

It's alright for a general thriller, but it's not prime Michael Crichton (you can sort of feel the transition of him going from Andromeda Strain to bigger, more interesting books like Jurrasic Park and later, Sphere). Either of those two would be a better use of your reading time.

An average early Crichton, not as impressive as the latter ones, but a great one nevertheless. Fast-paced, gripping, and quick.

I have to take back some things I said in my last Crichton review. I read The Andromeda Strain yesterday and I wasn't a fan. In fact, I gave it four stars and said that I didn't like Crichton's early works. Today I read this and I do, in fact, like some of his older works. This book was both short and thrilling. The characters were well written and the plot was so much fun! This is definitely one of my favourite Crichton books. I like how I can sit down and read this in one sitting.

Think this is 3x reading this - still very fun. In a medical and CS context, it's a window to our past, a mirror of our present. MC was perhaps the most stellar, honest sci-fi author of the late 1900s.

Not my favorite Crichton, actually didn't read like a Crichton at all.

This wasn't bad. Set in 1971. It's a story of a man who undergoes an experimental surgery designed to use a computer to fix his violent seizures. The problem is, he hates AND fears computers. So the surgery just makes his paranoia worse and he ends up going on a murder spree.

What was interesting to read though was how far back the tech in this book is.

Not my favorite Crichton, but still entertaining enough.