Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: LIKE PAINTING BY NUMBERS

Crichton's premise of nanotechnology gone awry is interesting but not necessarily new and his characters are shallow and one dimensional. I found the first hundred pages tolerable but the remainder of the book to be formalistic.The science of the "black cloud swarm" requires way too much information and takes away from what could have been a good sci fi horror story.Much of the book reads as if it was originally written as a screenplay. Skip the book and wait for the movie that will, no doubt, be coming to a theatre near you in the future.