I am rather pleased with myself, that I have completed another novel in merely 10 days. Indeed modern fiction literature (or commercialized fiction) is very easy to consume. This time, another work from Michael Crichton (I spelled his name wrongly in my Disclosure review, sorry) called Congo, one of his earlier novels.

Again, this has also been adapted into a motion picture of the same name and I remember I watched it in a cinema more than 10 years ago. I have vague impression left for the movie but I remember the gray primates (later only realized it should be apes in the book) were so fake, they were literally human in ugly synthetic fur costumes, then again, it was the 90’s without further 3D involvement.

The story was not very interesting, but lingered much on primate study and high technology development. The legend of Zinj city and Mukenko volcano was only an add-on item to make it more mysterious. Nonetheless, I’ve learned much from the fiction. I know that one should not have direct contact when facing a gorilla. I know that gorilla is vegetarian and friendlier than a chimpanzee, I also realize that Africa is not only deserts and savannah, there are rain forests as well.

In conclusion, if you have a week of spare time and doesn’t have any good book around, Congo is not bad for passing the turning page time.

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