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Chargement... Sphère (1987)par Michael Crichton
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This book started out so strong for me. I love Crichton's writing. It's fast-paced and cinematic, and genuinely fun. I was super intrigued by the premise, and I was excited to go along for the ride on a fun underwater alien adventure! The premise carried me happily along for about half the book, and then, when the revelations started, everything sort of fell apart. There were too many unanswered questions for my liking, and under scrutiny, not much made sense. I'm usually not bothered by having to suspend my disbelief, but since this book was so heavy on the science and technology aspect, I expected a better scientific explanation for what was happening. A great premise just couldn't quite make up for the underwhelming revelations and overall execution. this is the first Michael Crichton book i read and i loved it. the whole idea of being sent down to the darkness of the ocean is very scary and with the amount of things that can go wrong in an underwater facility. i also thought the whole idea of the Sphere to be very interesting and the way how Crichton writes these complex ideas in simple terms is done really well. this book was very fun for the thrills and for the thought provoking subjects. i wont spoil anything but the ending can be thought of in different ways wish i personally liked. a great start to my Michael Crichton journey
Een team wetenschappers onderzoekt vanuit een habitat op de oceaanbodem een "buitenaards ruimtevaartuig", dat een tijdreizend schip uit de aardse toekomst blijkt te zijn. Na opening van een geheimzinnige bol volgen talloze moorddadige aanvallen, gestuurd door de macht die de bol bevat. Bestseller-auteur Crighton doet zijn naam eer aan. Hij schrijft los en soepel en verlevendigt de wetenschappelijke verklaringen met het gekissebis tussen zijn hoofdpersonen, die psychologisch heel best aanvaardbaar zijn. Hij houdt de spanning er goed in en komt met een prettig onverwachte draai aan het eind. Het gewelddadig verscheiden van 6 van de 9 personen, gekoppeld aan het uiteindelijke waarom, kan voor een aantal lezers misschien wat veel van het goede zijn. Appartient à la série éditoriale
Fiction.
Science Fiction.
Thriller.
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Four scientists are called to a crash site. It turns out to be the site of a spaceship that has been there for more than three hundred years. As they explore, mysterious events and messages begin to appear around the site of their habitat. The mission becomes a race to discover who or what is causing these attacks and why, before it kills them all.
For me, Sphere derives a great deal of its power from the veneer of science that it layers over the entire experience. We're placed among a group of intellectuals who knife away at the problems using the tools they are normally accustomed to. The origin of the ship, the nature of the codes, their mutual behaviours - I could spot no obvious, immersion breaking discrepancies and I was consequently quite vulnerable to the feelings that the book generates. Crichton uses Sphere as a way to indicate the issues surrounding alien contact, caricatured somewhat but still a real indicator to someone who is not aware of the situation. I think it would be best not take his novels too seriously, though. Not everything is quite as clear cut as he makes it out.
The other issue I would mention is the relative lack of feelings that the characters have. The main character is a psychologist, but I don't think that you can explain the weird reactions of the scientists to deaths and inexplicable events as just hiding from the reality. I think most people would have some kind of more extreme reaction than that. It makes Beth and Harry, in particular, feel like constructions more than people.
The "message" of the book then, if there is one, would probably go something like this.
Highly recommended if you have a little time on your hands. No literary masterpiece, but thoroughly enjoyable and it will get you thinking hard about a great deal of increasingly relevant issues. ( )