[tnecniv]

Good thing you stopped. The ending is terrible.

It seems that Crichton always had a problem with endings. He always wrote 90% of a book and then vomited up the last two chapters.

[kijin]

That seems to be a common issue with novelists who have big ideas. Too many loose strings, brain stack overflow.

For example, I'm not terribly fond of the way Stephen King ends his stories, especially the longer ones. J.K. Rowling also always seems to hurry too much at the end of her books. And both are much better writers than Crichton.