At our last family get together my aunt threw a book at me…okay…tossed…semantics.  A novel by Michael Crichton called State of Fear.  I believe she mentioned it would blow my mind or freak me out…something like that anyway.  I finally had the chance Saturday night to read it.  I’m one of those people who starts reading a book and I have this insane need to finish it without having to put it down, so technically I finished it on Sunday morning (4am).  It’s basic premise is the argument against global warming.  And really, it didn’t freak me out or anything.  When I make “green” choices for my family global warming isn’t the reason for the choice, it’s much more selfish than that.  There is some great information in there, a great book to pick up.  Well paced and I’m sure well researched.

Then later in the week I met another Crichton creation.  A made for TV movie on A&E that was based on another of his novels, The Andromeda Strain.  There was an attempt at some marketing via a fake blog, a very, very fake blog complete with audio.  However fake it was I went, I made the link to the movie and I made a point of watching the movie.   Score one for marketing.

The movie itself was very enjoyable.  They don’t wait long before hitting you full on with the action.  I liked the group of actors (Rick Schroder cute as always) they all seemed to fit together nicely.  If you have a chance to see it in repeats I would go for it.  Short version with no spoilers…big bad virus out to get the human race.  Guess what happens?  Go on, guess.  Now I need to get that stupid book to see how much better the book is.