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    The Terminal Man

    Written by Michael Crichton

    Narrated by Luke Daniels

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    From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a neurological thriller about the dangers of cutting-edge medical experimentation.

    Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blacks out when they take hold. Shortly after severely beating two men during an episode, the police escort Benson to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. There, Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson with an experimental procedure that would place electrodes deep in his brain's pleasure centers, effectively short-circuiting Harry's seizures with pulses of bliss. The surgery is successful, but while Benson is in recovery, he discovers how to trigger the pulses himself. To make matters worse his violent impulses have only grown, and he soon escapes the hospital with a deadly agenda....

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 1, 2015
    ISBN9781501216930
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    The Terminal Man
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    Michael Crichton

    Michael Crichton (1942-2008) was the author of the bestselling novels The Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery, Jurassic Park, Sphere, Disclosure, Prey, State of Fear, Next and Dragon Teeth, among many others. His books have sold more than 200 million copies worldwide, have been translated into forty languages, and have provided the basis for fifteen feature films. He wrote and directed Westworld, The Great Train Robbery, Runaway, Looker, Coma and created the hit television series ER. Crichton remains the only writer to have a number one book, movie, and TV show in the same year. Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse and its sequel Robogenesis, as well as ten other books. He recently wrote the Earth 2: Society comic book series for DC Comics. Wilson earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as master’s degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. He has published over a dozen scientific papers and holds four patents. Wilson lives in Portland, Oregon.

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    • 4/5
      Spoiler-free review: I thought it was a fairly interesting book. I just finished reading Sphere by Chrichton. I thought Sphere was much more profound and less predictable. The plot of The Terminal Man was was somewhat predictable, but I still enjoyed reading the book. In my opinion, the ending wasn't terrible, but it wasn't immensely satisfying either. Overall, it was an okay book. I'd recommend it to fans of thrillers with a bit of sci-fi mixed in. 7/10
    • 2/5
      I thought the ending was too abrupt, left room for more
    • 3/5
      A decent enough, if thoroughly predictable thriller.
    • 2/5
      I didn't really care for this one. It meandered a bit plot-wise, and many of the characters were difficult to separate and put faces to. The climactic points were well-crafted, but overall nothing to grab you. I don't care for the way he writes his female characters in some of his books (including this one). He comes across as somewhat misogynistic.
    • 3/5
      A decent enough, if thoroughly predictable thriller.
    • 4/5
      4.25Pretty damn good.
    • 3/5
      It could have been so much more.
      But as always a perfectly boring ending with a bow on top.
      I shouldn't have bothered.
    • 3/5
      Well written but a tech thriller from 1972 doesn’t age well in to 2020
    • 3/5
      A good book about a man who has problems with his brain. These problems cause him to have seizures and become very aggressive after these seizures. He gets beta surgery that temporarily helps him, then makes him worse
    • 3/5
      This book was alright. Mr. Crichton has done much better.
    • 3/5
      Wow, the underlying science and technology is really dated, almost 40 years later. That's to be expected, but that facet will be at the forefront of the reader's consciousness.The book displays the origins of Crichton's technique of extrapolating current science to craft a thriller novel, but it's not as polished as his later work.
    • 3/5
      Years ago, I saw "The Andromeda Strain" & then saw this book, so I picked it up. It was pretty good & was an early explorer of man-computer interfacing. It also shows the fallacy of positive feedback as a form of control. There's a fair amount of gore & the hospital descriptions really impressed me. It might be a bit dated now, though. If you have to hunt up a volume, try to find the first hardback. It had some good, if a bit gruesome, illustrations in it, as I recall.
    • 1/5
      The Terminal Man is a by-the-numbers Crichton novel. Reckless doctors rush a new procedure into use that has scary implications (and for extra scariness, it is powered by a plutonium implant). A wise Cassandra-like protagonist warns against the new procedure, but is ignored. The procedure is performed, and disaster ensues. People die or get horribly injured. The heroic protagonist, with the help of a love interest quality police captain, tracks down the villain and ends the threat.The story would have been helped if the Cassandra-protagonist's warnings hadn't been so tepid, or if she had stopped whining about how the male doctors wouldn't listen to her because she was a woman (the male doctors probably didn't listen to her because her warnings were couched in such listless ways). The plot itself is extremely linear - the book is literally procedure, screw up, resolution. And things go wrong in the book because the nurse's in the hospital ward where medical experiments are conducted are portrayed as being extraordinarily dense: they don't recognize the signature of the head of the ward on the experimental patient's chart, and just ignore this critical notation on the chart rather than ask anyone about it. It seems as if Crichton thinks women are simpering fools with heads full of cotton.This book was one of Crichton's earlier efforts, and it shows. As said before, the Crichton anti-technology playbook is in evidence, probably in its most basic form in this book. The characters are wooden, the female characters are also almost universally stupid or timid, or both. Elements are introduced that have no payoff, like the plutonium powered nature of the implant, the growing memory capabilities of computers, and the unexplained breakdown of a couple simulated computer personalities (which vaguely tie into the plot, but only just barely). Crichton's anti-technology paranoia is front and center through the whole story. The book was made into a movie that flopped, and it is easy to figure out why. This is a book not worth wasting one's time upon.
    • 5/5
      Another Crichton masterpiece.
    • 4/5
      Though this book is a good and quick read. It is not up to the standards of Crichton's other books. But still better than many books out there. The Terminal man does keep your interest. This is an old time Sci-Fi story. You can tell that Michael Crichton did research on Psychology and the technical aspects of the age. Giving the story some semblance of fact.
    • 3/5
      My 3rd experience with Crichton and it was not the best. A good story nonetheless, but nothing to write home about.
    • 4/5
      Reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange, this new therapy is questioned. Can we really control people so easily? Compelling, engaging, interesting, tense, a must-read for Crichton fans.
    • 3/5
      one can almost feel the tentative probing of the first time novelist in this story. it is written by a physician probing the story format. he got it right. this is first edition of second book, and first one to make it to national attention in 1972. a one-time read. not unusally brilliant...more technical.
    • 4/5
      The first Crichton book I ever read but the one that got me hooked. My memory of the details is vague but I remember the exhilaration you get when you finish a good read. Now if I could only get the image of George Segal from the movie out of my head.
    • 4/5
      Oh Michael Crichton, you've never liked machines, have you?