From: "John Beamish" 

Complete agreement.  "Characters?  We don't need ..."

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:41:48 -0500, Rich Gauszka  wrote:

> I can agree that the appendix and bibliography are the best parts of the
> book unfortunately one has to wade through the rest, especially a far
> fetched gene mutant storyline, to understand the points he's attempting
> to
> make. Perhaps Crichton should have only taken 3 days to write the
> novel.
>
> I thought it was worth the read for the points Crichton took - not
> necessarily the novel itself as about half of it was skim worthy. I can
> understand why you would feel it a waste of time though. Additionally
> character development doesn't appear to be Crichton's strong point as a
> novelist.
>
>

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