Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

14 reviews

elcolonel's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful informative mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

scoobygirl93's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

flooooo's review against another edition

informative mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Great ideas, concepts and (somewhat outdated) science but the story itself isnt that thrilling. Also a really unsatisfying sudden ending.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic

phantomgecko's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Impressive, especially for its age. The research that went into it, the speculation, all good stuff.

There were some plot holes, but it was mostly fine.

Least favorite thing was the false sense of urgency even toward the end

when you realized that it wasn't urgent at all actually.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Suicide, and Pandemic/Epidemic

tiernanhunter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

pidgepodge's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Suicide, Blood, and Medical content

morganpsmith's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, and Medical trauma

sharebear431's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

mar's review

challenging slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Gun violence, Suicide, and Violence

meganpbennett's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

I remember reading The Andromeda Strain years ago, probably in high school when I went on a Micheal Crichton kick. It's a very good, tightly-written look at what could happen, should something return to Earth with a deadly, non-Terrestrial microorganism attached. It's also not really something that should be read during a global pandemic, since that's the most likely outcome of Andromeda getting out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma