Next (Harper Fiction)

Next (Harper Fiction)
by Michael Crichton

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Author: Michael Crichton
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 2007-11
ISBN: 0060873167
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: Harper

Book Reviews of Next (Harper Fiction)

Book Review: Not up to Crichton standards
Summary: 2 Stars

I was surprised not to enjoy this book. It skipped around between characters excessively, and there were some fairly glaring errors (at least to me as a bird owner)that I would not have expected from someone who obviously tries to research his works at fully as possible. I hope no parrot owners out there have fed their birds avocado, as was done in the book...this can be lethal. Also...parrots don't have a sense of smell. Now if this was because Gerard was transgenic, I think it should have been elaborated on...could have been mentioned in a single sentence...no problem.

All in all...I'd rather spend my time rereading some of his other work.

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Summary of Next (Harper Fiction)

Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction--is it worse than the disease?

What's coming Next? Get a hint of what Michael Crichton sees on the horizon in this short video clip: high bandwidth or low bandwidth

We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies.

We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes...

Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn.

Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and the bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.

The future is closer than you think.

Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control. This is not the world of the future— it's the world right now.

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