State of Fear

by Michael Crichton | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 0066214130 Global Overview for this book
Registered by stagecrafty of Lynnwood, Washington USA on 11/18/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by stagecrafty from Lynnwood, Washington USA on Friday, November 18, 2005
Part of the ever growing pile that I've been collecting on thrift shop outings. Will read....some day.

Journal Entry 2 by stagecrafty at in a letter in By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, March 7, 2006

Released 18 yrs ago (3/8/2006 UTC) at in a letter in By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases

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(Being held for fellow bookcrosser)

Mailed to New York today!

Journal Entry 3 by BookBirds from Somewhere in the USA, -- Wild Released somewhere in USA -- USA on Wednesday, March 15, 2006
I forgot I was getting this! What a nice surprise! thanks for sending it over, stagecrafty. I shall write another journal entry as soon as I finish reading!

Journal Entry 4 by BookBirds from Somewhere in the USA, -- Wild Released somewhere in USA -- USA on Sunday, September 3, 2006
A thriller about global warming! I was hoping HAARP would be included but it wasn't. It seems like Michael Crichton does not believe in global warming solely because of a little something called eugenics. I can understand why Crichton may think that the media is over hyping global warming for the government's own means, but I think eugenics is a separate issue from global warming. Eugenics really must have effected him somehow in order for him to not believe anything else he is told.

Interesting story: I was discussing this book with my grandmother and we were talking about how the media may make global warming a big deal just to instill fear within people -- to keep them in line. I also talked about the book 1984 by George Orwell. The next day I was reading the book and pages 451-460 pretty much mentions all of the stuff I was talking about with my grandma. Then this professor says "Insanity! No one remembers even a few years ago! George Orwell. No memory!" I thought that was very funny.

Also, why would the lead character, a lawyer, be the person to save the US from terrorist attacks? There were a few secretaries saving the world too. I find it hard to believe that the government would even mention these things were happening to a lawyer and some secretaries. I'm pretty sure that they have people who are trained to protect their country... you know, someone who has actually used a gun before.

Released 16 yrs ago (10/4/2007 UTC) at Controlled releases in Exchange/Trade, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases

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Sent to TakYak as part of a trade! Enjoy!

Journal Entry 6 by TakYak on Saturday, November 3, 2007
Caught as part of a trade.

And finished on 12/29 just in time for the new year. I'm not sure if I liked the book. It was quite preachy, and very awkwardly (lengthily) inserted Crichton's personal views into the story. The changes in scenery were entertaining and I enjoyed the plotting and action in the Antarctic-ice crevasse and Arizona/New Mexico Canyon-lightning-flood sequences, but the tropical island-cannibalism-crocodile-tsunami sequence was just too over the top. And by the end of the novel I got very tired of the plot taking a secondary position to Crichton's personal soap box.

But if you've never heard or read about the case against the theory of global warming, it is a good read, just to get a new perspective on a world issue, whether you agree with it or not.

Journal Entry 7 by TakYak at CRI Building - 11200 Rockville Pike in Rockville, Maryland USA on Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Released 16 yrs ago (1/8/2008 UTC) at CRI Building - 11200 Rockville Pike in Rockville, Maryland USA

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On the receptionist's desk in the main lobby among a pile of books set out for a book swap.

11200 Rockville Pike is an office building directly across from White Flint mall.

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