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Let's start out by my saying that I don't think Crichton's written a real novel in quite some time and this book, Next , is not an exception to that. However I did enjoy reading it and I would recommend it for people with an interest in or fear of genetic / science research. Let me justify my remarks a bit. I think Crichton is a very good writer when he bothers. However he's only got so much time and his creative energy is split in many directions which results in books that are multipurpose. Lost World and Prey were little more than movie scripts spun into books. State of Fear was a polemic on global warming much in the style of Da Vinci Code . Crichton's current book, Next , is a different type of non-novel. This book is like a few Powerpoint slides filled with bulleted points but fleshed out in a fictional fashion. The result is what seems at times to be almost random jumps between thinly described characters--characters which serve mainly to illustrate the ...