State of Fear

I finished reading Michael Crichton's latest novel "State of Fear" last night. It was one of his best ones, at least for me. I do enjoy breath-taking speed-pace stories but also like to learn at the same time. I guess the trend of book market is toward such novels. Like Dan Brown books which I haven't tackled yet but Mrs. Wife says they are "my type". Well, I should admit my next book is "The DaVinci Code". Anyways, about State of Fear, the nice thing is that it mixes scientific facts and figures inside the passage. So you get a lot of information while reading the book. I understand that some parts may get boring if only you look for is excitement and that's why Crichton gets a lot of negative feedbacks in Amazon.com book reviews. Personally I found the information interesting and well-to-know and followed the details with same enthusiasm.

The "theory" of global warming has its own set of in-favors and opposes. All the writer suggests is that some of the aspects of climate system are so complex that can’t be studied with available technology and science. He emphasizes that fact that we need to take care of the environment but the fear injected to some facts and figures has unnecessarily or unscientifically given the public wrong ideas.

Also, the book reminded me one important fact: Public is affected easily by the media. So no matter what everyone believes, there might be some deeper reason with a complete twist in meaning hidden in it.