A review by alex_watkins
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

2.0

This book is kinda lame. Nothing really happens, its like Jurassic Park if the dinosaurs never escaped, but instead evolved into birds. The cover of the book made all sorts of bold claims like the Thriller that shocked a generation! must be a very delicate generation. There is lots of interesting science in this book, but half the book is him setting up this elaborate computer (in the loosest sense of the word) operated base that is not believable at all. Probably because it was trying to be really advanced but reading in 2009 is just ridiculous. And there is the message about having computers do everything, because like a glitch imperils mankind, but it didn't actually seem to cause a problem. I think the big thing was all the foreshadowing in the book, like many mistakes were made, or they were already on the wrong track etc etc, but nothing ends up happening that was foreshadowed.