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Congo

By: Michael Crichton
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
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Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists are 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 finger paint. 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.....

Congo was adapted to the screen and directed by Frank Marshall.

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not the best I mean its quite dull in places and relates more to the safari (journey) then the mysterious destination zinch

not brilliant but okay

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was a great listen, had me gripped from start to finish. Good narration. some of the narrators sound effects had me in hysterics.

great listen

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great book
wonderfully read
will definitely listen to it again
top book top narrator

wonderfully read

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chrichton has a habit of injecting his own opinions, a mark of a bad author.

great narrator, naff story

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One has to suspend a lot of disbelief, but it's worth it for the fun story. I'd give this 3.5 stars if possible. Certainly one of Crichton's weaker books, but he still writes well.

The narration was top notch.

Silly but fun

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