Another Crichton book, this one the earliest work I could find legally. This book has a solid theme: it's about a man, Henry, who has brain legions which are causing seizures which are triggering psychotic episodes. These episodes turn him senselessly violent. At the time of surgery he's already brought three people to the brink of death, but of course even a successful surgery doesn't deal with the underlying issue.
While the topic of this book was more clear than Congo, the writing and subject matter are no where near as interesting or engaging as Jurassic Park. Crichton simply wasn't matured in his writing at this point in his career.
The next Crichton book on the list is Micro the novel he never had the chance to finish which has been finished and published posthumously. Hopefully for your sake and mine I'll make it through the other 7 books I'm currently at least 100 pages into before picking that up.
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