Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | State of Fear |
| author | Michael Crichton |
| ISBN-10 | 0-00718-160-4 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-739-45453-4 |
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| date | 2008-Jul-26 |
Global warming threatens to make the island nation of Vanutu disappear. Vanutu and the National Environmental Resource Fund are preparing to file a lawsuit against the US over global warming. George Morton is financially backing the lawsuit with a 10 million dollar grant. All the preparations go fine. But after John Kenner shows up at Morton's place, Morton seems to have second thoughts about the matter and threatens to withdraw the grant. Shortly before dying in a car crash, an obviously drunk George Morton publicly hints his withdrawal in a public speech.
Now things really speed up. In the course of only a couple of days George Morton's lawyer and secretary are urged by John Kenner to follow him to a number of places around the world in order to prevent some catastrophes which would be only too convenient to coincide with a big conference on abrupt clima change.
The book is very well written and loaded with presumably well researched information about global warming, all wrapped in a thrilling and fast paced story. Some chapters contain more story while others are more designed to present information and facts about global warming, media influence etc. without being boaring or pure descriptions.
Some of the action in the book seems a bit far fetched and I could well do without one particularly cruel death, but apart from that the book is really recommendable. It shows global warming from a refreshingly different side than what we hear and read from the news all the time.
