State of Fear
by Michael Crichton | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780061015731 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9780061015731 Global Overview for this book
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From Publishers Weekly
For his latest foray, Crichton alters his usual formula--three parts thrills and spills to one part hard science--to a less appetizing concoction that is half anti-global warming screed and half adventure yarn. This adds a mission impossible element to Wilson's narration: how to make pages of research interesting enough to hold the listener's attention until hero and heroine face their next peril. Unfortunately, Wilson approaches the statistical information like a newscaster communicating via Teleprompter. This earns him an A-plus for elocution and timbre, but a more average grade when it comes to dramatic interpretation. Consequently, the scientific material that Crichton spent three years researching seems even more copious in audio format than in print. And it's certainly much harder to flip past. Wilson is more successful in handling conversational passages, employing accents and adding subtle touches to various voices--a cynical tone for the hero, who's a mildly hedonistic corporate lawyer, and an edgier, less patient attitude for the beautiful, ready-for-anything heroine. As they hot-foot it around the globe, assisting an Indiana Jones-like MIT professor in thwarting evils perpetrated by a mass-murdering environmentalist, Wilson stirs up a little suspense by speaking faster and more energetically. But the book's abundance of statistics would slow any narrator's momentum, and Wilson is no exception.
For his latest foray, Crichton alters his usual formula--three parts thrills and spills to one part hard science--to a less appetizing concoction that is half anti-global warming screed and half adventure yarn. This adds a mission impossible element to Wilson's narration: how to make pages of research interesting enough to hold the listener's attention until hero and heroine face their next peril. Unfortunately, Wilson approaches the statistical information like a newscaster communicating via Teleprompter. This earns him an A-plus for elocution and timbre, but a more average grade when it comes to dramatic interpretation. Consequently, the scientific material that Crichton spent three years researching seems even more copious in audio format than in print. And it's certainly much harder to flip past. Wilson is more successful in handling conversational passages, employing accents and adding subtle touches to various voices--a cynical tone for the hero, who's a mildly hedonistic corporate lawyer, and an edgier, less patient attitude for the beautiful, ready-for-anything heroine. As they hot-foot it around the globe, assisting an Indiana Jones-like MIT professor in thwarting evils perpetrated by a mass-murdering environmentalist, Wilson stirs up a little suspense by speaking faster and more energetically. But the book's abundance of statistics would slow any narrator's momentum, and Wilson is no exception.
Journal Entry 2 by Ghanescha at geht zur Post in -- Per Post geschickt/ Persönlich weitergegeben --, Oberösterreich Austria on Monday, October 29, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (10/30/2007 UTC) at geht zur Post in -- Per Post geschickt/ Persönlich weitergegeben --, Oberösterreich Austria
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Geht nach Warschau zu Vargas
Geht nach Warschau zu Vargas
Part of my Life Time Release Challenge
Journal Entry 3 by Vargas from Reichenau an der Rax, Niederösterreich Austria on Tuesday, November 13, 2007
is now in Warsaw, to be released at the new OBCZ Emerald Irish Pub , Aleje Jerozolimskie 4 , at the first official BC-Meeting in Warsaw
Thank You!
Thank You!
Ok, yeah, I was at the Emerald, being greedy. I recently read Chrichton's Fist of God and couldn't leave this book behind.