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I just finished reading Next. Usually I consider Crichton books as brain candy, something I read when I just want to zone out and enjoy a book. But this book struck a few chords with me. I work the Biotech, and many of the issues he covers I encounter on a daily basis. Particularly in the realm of gene patents. Of course there are some sci-fi flights of fancy, but all around informative.

refresh my memory, is this about the nanobot and AI or something else?

Mainly about a talking monkey and gene pantents

Oh, I was thinking of Prey. 

I will have to read this one.

I read "Chromosome 6" by Chrichton and it also had several interesting points to make, whether is was humans and our technological revolution and how our cultural growth hasn't caught up and just "growth" as a whole. The idea that "the more things change the more they stay the same" kind of thing.

It was quite good, over all.

If I'm thinking of the right book...

Nice... apparently Chrichton has turned a critic of his derange-fiction work "State of Fear" into a pedophile in this book... with his real name and that of the city where he lives. Very "elegant" and "mature" on Chrichton's behalf. ::)

Oh really? The pedophile character shared a critics name? Thats kind of funny really.

I like when authors strike back. It makes me laugh.