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pretty good I enjoyed reading this book, but felt that Crichton went a little overboard with explanations, inserting conversations that had little or no relevence to the story into the plot. I felt like I was reading a good fiction novel that had the occational essay squeesed in. The essay-like sections were interesting, and made valid points (with references and footnotes), but the novel could lose about half of them without having the story lose anything. Overall this was a good novel with an interesting plot. It presents some interesting points about public interpretation of science(i'm still trying to decide where I stand on his points), and states a few facts that made me do a double take and some research. <u>State of Fear</u> is worth the read. This book makes you think.