by Michael Crichton
Like all the fiction with an agenda, the tensity and pace of the story give away to prolonged clarification of the author's stand point. Crichton even goes through the length of giving academic references. It is enlightening at first and boring in the end. His characters are made simple and flat so that they can ask the same questions and illustrate the same ideas again and again.
The doubt about global warming is understandable, the theory of the state of fear is insightful, but somehow, putting together, it is neither captive nor persuasive.
