A review by klgreiner
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

Did not finish book. Stopped at 50%.

Action never picked up.  Mostly explanations of the characters credentials, lengthy descriptions of the setting (the lab), narrative describing the politics and bureaucracy behind setting up a biological containment lab.  Only a few pages covering the actual situation.  I listened to the audiobook and the narrator was great, but he had to read what I assume is charts, letterhead, lists of data from the book which resulted in him reading timestamps and lines of data...which was extremely boring.  If I were reading in print this could have been skimmed to get the gist of the content (flight logs, situation reports, etc).  I really enjoyed the whole Jurassic Park trilogy, so kind of bummed this was so bland.  It felt like listening to a technical lecture, not an exiting sci-fi mystery/action story that I was expecting.