{"id":80,"date":"2009-08-27T15:19:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T22:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2010-11-13T19:13:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T03:13:34","slug":"sphere-by-michael-crichton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Sphere  by Michael Crichton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/17543\/book\/36199088\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"workCoverImage alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0394570804.01._SX140_SY225_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"Sphere by Michael Crichton\" width=\"110\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>The story was fun and intriguing, but I couldn&#8217;t quite get into the people. Most of them seemed a bit shallow, they had odd idiosynchrosies that didn&#8217;t seem to match the characters but were useful for the plot. For instance, the marine biologist was claustrophobic and couldn&#8217;t travel in a submarine. The theme reminded me strongly of the old movie, but if I name it, it&#8217;ll ruin the book. So there!<\/p>\n<p>The ending seemed a bit contrived. I couldn&#8217;t see these people going to this conclusion. And some of the conclusions they jumped to seemed a bit far-fetched. But otherwise the book was enjoyable. The action and suspense is typical for Crichton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story was fun and intriguing, but I couldn&#8217;t quite get into the people. Most of them seemed a bit shallow, they had odd idiosynchrosies that didn&#8217;t seem to match the characters but were useful for the plot. For instance, the marine biologist was claustrophobic and couldn&#8217;t travel in a submarine. The theme reminded me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}