Mike (the Paladin)'s Reviews > Congo

Not bad in places...other times it's sort of a "puleez" book. Again Crichton has one that could have been better. The best I suppose I can say is..it wasn't as lame as the movie. So full of PC political rhetoric it seemed to me that any story got lost.




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(view spoiler)[The "Amy" character is just too sweet for words...I had to take insulin. I love animals, really I do, not setting up a joke here about eating meat. (Though I do eat meat). But I love animals and I know that Gorillas are not actually predators (Chimpanzees are,but that's another discussion)... BUT, the sign language using Gorilla and of course the secret of the "bad things" as Amy calls the aggressive gorillas (that they were made evil by evil humans) and the whole technology and advancement and the companies who build it are ALWAYS EVIL theme was for me just to much of a head slapper. Personally I enjoy having a flush toilet, using my computer, living in a dwelling that has heat in the winter and cooling in the summer, watching TV, listening to music whenever I like, having light at my fingertips when I want to read a book at night and all the other evil advances that have gotten us out of the jungle expanded our life spans to more than 30 or 40 years and so on. AND I believe it's possible to have those things without destroying nature and don't think all technological groups are out to destroy nature.

The book is in other words at times silly...though not as silly as the movie with Amy's "talking backpack"... Oh come on please.

I wonder if by now there's an entire tribe of Gorillas who "speak" sign language. (hide spoiler)]