Published April 17, 1995 by Círculo de Lectores.
Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.
Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies — all motionless except for one moving image — a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.
In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 “signs,” the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to fingerpaint. But recently, her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition — along with …
Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.
Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies — all motionless except for one moving image — a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.
In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 “signs,” the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to fingerpaint. But recently, her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition — along with Amy — is sent into the Congo where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death … ([source][1])
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[1]: www.michaelcrichton.com/congo/ [2]: openlibrary.org/works/OL14950504W/Congo_Sphere_Eaters_of_the_Dead
An excellent read that probably would have aged better without the obsession for over-describing near future tech in 1979. The racist boss could handle being edited. I really liked the movie, and like most Crichton novels, the movie and book managed to both be really good.
Some bits (racism, tech) aged poorly but the majority held up, so it gets to keep a pretty solid rating.
La novela combina la acción trepidante con elementos de ciencia y tecnología. Crichton utiliza conceptos como la comunicación con primates y la robótica para crear una trama intrigante. El libro te mantiene en vilo desde el principio hasta el final, lleno de suspenso y giros inesperados.
I absolutely loved this book. There's a reason Michael Crichton is so famous, he's a great story-teller. I thought the pace of this book was perfect. It was supremely better than the movie, and the characters were not basic in their desires and personalities. My only complaint is that it seems he rushed the ending a bit. I wish he had taken more time to explore the aftermath of the expedition, and the way the characters' relationships to each other had evolved.
