The Andromeda Strain (1000 Books to Read)

I was 10 years old when this book became a bestseller, and a movie was made about it. It is well-written and a page-turner. It was worth reading, and I understand why it would be on the 1000 Books to Read List. I have the movie on hold from the library. I will say that some might get a little bored with all the technical and medical jargon.

I did make some connections to COVID-19.

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

Although physician Michael Crichton previously published several pseudonymous novels, The Andromeda Strain was his first bestseller, and the storytelling élan it displayed would inform nearly four decades of inventive, often medically or scientifically minded thrillers. The combination of cutting-edge science and sheer narrative bravado breeds a kind of terror of discovery that puts his best efforts firmly in the lineage of H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine or Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (a title Crichton would borrow for his prequel to Jurassic Park). In a word, they’re unputdownable.