Next by Michael Crichton Paperback Book

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Author: Michael Crichton

Narrator: Dylan Baker

Format: Unabridged-CD, Abridged-CD, Paperback, Unabridged-CD, Unabridged-MP3

Publisher: Harperaudio

Published: Dec 2006

Genre: Fiction - General

Retail Price: $49.95

Discs: 11

Synopsis

Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why an adult human being resembles a chimp fetus? And should that worry us? There’s a new genetic cure for drug addictionis it worse than the disease?

We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps; a time when it’s possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars or test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes . . .

Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions, and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.

The future is closer than you think. Get used to it.

Performed by Dylan Baker

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Reviews

BookLender review by Kieran on 2007-05-10 16:26:26

Very Good Author, but this book was VERY disappointing. I would not reccommend this book at all.

BookLender review by Brynn on 2009-04-03 19:29:41

The reader performs the book with overly exaggerated accents and overacting with almost every character. I felt like I was listening to a cartoon. I finally stopped listening and actually read the book.