Sphere | Michael Crichton | Sphere is one of the best science fiction novels written!

Sphere | Michael Crichton | Crichton at his best

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Sphere

	Sphere Michael Crichton Ballantine Books, 1988 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 699 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Sphere is one of the best science fiction novels written!

This book is a must read!

It all starts out when Norman Johnson, a psychologist, is asked to come to a crash site in the middle of the Pacific. When he arrives at the site, the Navy informs him that it wasn't a plane that crashed but a spacecraft. When Norman asks when the spacecraft had crashed (assuming within the last 30 years), he is told that it crashed nearly 300 years ago.

What makes Sphere such a phenomenal novel is the unbelievable suspense. Sphere is one of those books that you cannot put down; there is not one dull part in this novel. Crichton writes so descriptively that the situation could be real. I found so many mysteries and questions in this book, and when they were resolved, the solutions blew my mind away.

Sphere is filled with action, suspense, and mystery and fills my imagination even now. Anyone who reads this book will definitely enjoy it, and will keep wanting more.

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Crichton at his best

Psychologist Norman Johnson accepted a grant to predict the likely reactions of human beings to alien first contact because he needed money to buy his family a house. Not because he could take such a task seriously. The last thing he expected, years later, was to find himself applying his study's conclusions in real life. But here he is, nevertheless. On his way to a habitat beneath the Pacific Ocean, with a team he hand picked - just long enough ago so that its members aren't exactly the same people they were when he selected them. The habitat has been set up for easy access to a sphere that's been lying on the ocean's floor for 300 years.

No 53-year-old in average (less than optimum) physical health belongs where the Navy has decided Norman Johnson should go. He realizes that as he and the rest of the first contact team, of which he is a member rather than the leader, explore the ancient spaceship. When a storm forces the Navy to withdraw surface support, stranding the team, Norman finds out exactly how right he was in some of his theorizing. He also finds out how wrong he was.

Sphere is Crichton at his best. The ensemble cast of this novel rings true as the plot sweeps them from crisis to crisis, through twist after twist. Its ending is perfect, after a wild ride that's everything a sci-fi thriller ought to be.

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excellent sci-fi

I really enjoyed reading the book Sphere. The novel is well written and well paced. It keeps you on the edge of your seat. It is an intriguing story from beginning to end. I highly reccomend it.

Movie, not a book

Unreal characters. Bickering, vain, almost comedic. SNL could use these guys in a skit.

Would make a pretty good movie but not good in book form.

Not his best

I agree with other reviewers. Interesting story, easy to read. Good. But characters are too apparent (or stereotypical?). I couldn't believe they were professional scientists or expert (even the navy peoples too). they don't look like really trained scientific people. Just streotypical 'images' of scientists having many (stereotypical again) problems. I would say I enjoyed it but at many spots, I feel this was written somewhat amateurish. Maybe it was a mistake to read it with a book by Larry Mcmurtry (Lonesome Dove - classic). Conslusion: Fascinating idea/story but disapointing writing.

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