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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote pattirose Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September/04/2007 at 11:21am
No, you didn't spoil anything Chris. I didn't know you'd read this already.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote christophersnow Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September/04/2007 at 11:45am
I read this book in the summer of 2003, well before I was even a Koontz fan. I'm surprised the book came out in 1998? I started reading Crichton in '97 and kept reading him over the years and had never heard of that one until a friend lent it to me. It took me a few months to read, but that was because I was an immature reader at the time. I enjoyed it immensely, but I took weeks at a time off from reading it.
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1999 is the copyright date on my hoardcover copy.

I just read the first part and am halfway through the second.

I love the way crichton begins just about every one of his books. You have an idea of what he's going to write about going in, but the very first scene is almost always random and unconnected. Then he drops some subtle clue that get your brain working on what this could be about. My first thought, obviously was that the re-stitched patters in Traub's clothes and the uneven nature of the arteries in his fingers and atrterial wall mismatch was the result of The Fly Syndrome. If you have eve seen The classic horror movie THE FLY or its impressive 1980's remake, you'd know that quantum teleportation has to be exact, otherwise you could scatter your genetic code on re-entry or something possibly even more bizarre than that.

Am I right? I don't know. But Crichton has planted the seed, and that's what I'm going with for now.

I, too, liked that the dorky kid in the hospital was the only one with a clue about Quantum Foam.

Now I'm meeting Crichton's cast of stock characters. Not that I mind, because I'm more interested in the science already anyway. Any good character building on his part will be a welcome and pleasant surprise.
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The Fly is an awesome example, man that was nasty when Jeff Goldblum started to change.
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It's something Koontz messed around with a little bit a long time ago, most notably in THE BAD PLACE. Frank Pollard could teleport himself from one place to another, but by the end of the book he started losing control of his ability, and was incorporating certain things into his body, actually messing up the patterns and losing track of objects that should have remained seperated from each other.
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