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    Disclosure

    Written by Michael Crichton

    Narrated by John Lithgow

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry; a shattering psychological game of cat and mouse; an accusation of sexual harassment that threatens to derail a brilliant career...this is the electrifying core of Michael Crichton's new novel, the first since Rising Sun.

    At the center: Tom Sanders, an up-and-coming executive with DigiCom in Seattle, a man whose corporate future is certain. Until: after a closed-door meeting with his new boss -- a woman who was his lover ten years before, a woman who has been promoted to the position he expected to have -- he is accused of sexually harassing her. Now he finds himself trapped between what he knows to be true and what he knows others will assume to be the truth. And, as he uncovers an electronic trail into the company's secrets, he begins to grasp just how cynical and manipulative an abuse of truth has actually occurred...

    Tackling one of the most divisive issues of our time, Disclosure compels us to see beyond our traditional responses. It is Michael Crichton at his best.

    Michael Crichton's novels include The Terminal Man, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, and Rising Sun.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 4, 2000
    ISBN9780375418617
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    Michael Crichton

    Michael Crichton (1942-2008) was the author of the ground-breaking novels The Great Train Robbery, Jurassic Park, Disclosure, Prey, State of Fear and Next, among many others. Crichton’s books have sold more than 200 million copies worldwide, have been translated into thirty-eight languages, and provided the basis for thirteen feature films. Also known as a filmmaker and creator of ER, he remains the only writer to have a number one book, movie, and TV show in the same year.

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    Reviews for Disclosure

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    • 4/5
      Suspenseful, engrossing, and agonizing to see a manipulator in action, using assumptions and company policy to destroy her boss. Brilliantly written. This would generate discussion at a book club.
    • 5/5
      I have had this book sitting on my bookshelf for sometime now but until just recently I didn’t feel I wanted to read it. It wasn’t until after I picked this book up that I found out that Crichton wrote the famous Jurassic Park series. I had only ever watched Jurassic Park on TV so I was interested to see what I thought of Crichton’s writing style. It didn’t take long for me to decide that I absolutely loved his writing. He had my interest piqued when he spoke about CD-ROMs and CD-ROM players etc. It was so fascinating to read about the problems associated with developing these products with 2017 eyes. It was like stepping back in time and guided through what the early development of these products involve to get where we are today some 23 years later. It was also interesting to find that, like today, many of the tech people were young (in their 20s) indicating that some things stay the same regardless of the number of years that have elapsed in the meantime.

      Throughout this book (and this is a good indication of how well written it was) I found myself being pulled so much into the book that I lost all sense of where I was, at least whilst reading. I was very much in the book and couldn’t wait to read it every chance I got. As a result of this I managed to finish it in 3 days! I loved the book's whole premise and the way it was dealt with allowed the reader to see how notoriously fraught with difficulty sexual harassment cases are.

      There are many characters throughout but it never felt like it was overdone. We meet Meredith Johnson who is the woman who harassed the male protagonist, Tom Sanders. Tom’s lawyer proved to be a force to be a reckoned with and she didn’t hold any prisoners. She certainly knew her stuff and rarely allowed herself to be ruffled by people who should have known better. This book also showed how nasty office politics can get especially when there’s a company merger on the table. I’m sure that this sort of thing can also happen outside of a merger as well. The characters in this book were well described and developed and they came across as very real and believable.

      I absolutely loved this book and now I want to get, and read, many more of Crichton’s books. I have added him to my list of favourite authors. I can’t recommend him highly enough.
    • 2/5
      Book is about office politics, purportedly based on real story. And story is realistic, in sense that both heros and villains are realistic. There are some lucky coincidences but perhaps acceptable. Book isn't boring, but isn't interesting either. You can have decent timepass with it, but you won't miss anything in life if you don't read this book.
    • 4/5
      Excellent reading. Just shows what can happen in the wokforce. Sexual behaviour can be used as a powerful weapon of control. Female bosses can be just as devious as Male bosses. Great story!
    • 4/5
      The book starts pretty slow, but if you stick around long enough it becomes quite interesting. It took me few months to read first 50-80 pages, and just a couple of days to finish rest of the 400 pages.
    • 5/5
      What a nice way to see how a woman can control a situation. Every time you want to interrupt and tell him how to handle the situation. Great reading, don't forget to see the movie, although the book is much better.
    • 4/5
      A good, fast read.
    • 3/5
      unnerving tale of the other side of corporate workplace sexual harrassment
    • 5/5
      It's weird how old this book feels, and yet it still feels like it captures today's climate.
    • 3/5
      Ok for the bus. Touches an issue of concern to many men with harrassment.. Our identity often not resolved as easily.
    • 5/5
      Very good book. It's my first by Michael Crichton, and now I want to read more. It was one of this month's selections (didi not win) for one of my book clubs. I could hardly put the book down, because I wanted to know what was going to happen!
    • 4/5
      Book is about office politics and sexual harassment...based on real story. Both heroes and villains are believable. And, it's about high tech 20 years ago. I saw the movie about 10 years ago and thought that I recalled the plot--but it was different than I recall...better. In my opinion, the theme/lesson is that anyone can throw out the sexual harassment flag, is instantly believed, and it shouldn't be so.
    • 3/5
      In Disclosure, Tom Sanders, a very flawed protagonist, is vying for the same position at Digital Communications as beautiful and talented Meredith Johnson. Meredith gets the promotion and then later tries to seduce Tom. He then files a sexual harassment suit against the company. This sets up a series of events involving large conspiracies, sabotage, and corporate espionage. The most memorable part of this novel is when Tom links into a virtual reality module in an attempt to save his reputation and career.The plot was well thought out and the pace of the novel was good. For the time, there were some cutting edge high tech aspects to the novel. The worst aspect of the novel is the characterization. None of the characters in this novel are especially likeable. That made it hard to root for any of the characters, and the novel fell a little flat as a result. A solid but unspectacular novel.Carl Alves – author of Blood Street
    • 3/5
      Ein Mitarbeiter eines großen Technikunternehmens wird von seiner ehemaligen Freundin, die neuerdings seine Vorgesetzte ist, sexuelle belästigt bzw verführt - je nach Sichtweise. In der Folge entwickelt sich eine firmeninterne Auseinandersetzung um die Ereignisse und ihre Folgen, die durch Machtkämpfe und Intrigen bestimmt ist. Die ganz große Spannung stellt sich nicht ein, aber es ist auch kein schlechtes Buch. Lustig lesen sich die Beschreibungen hochmoderner Entwicklungen der frühen 1990er Jahre. Es wird über ein gewisses Internet gemunkelt... In einem Nachwort erläutert der Autor, weshalb er in seiner Geschichte eine Vorgesetzte einen Mitarbeiter belästigen lässt, obwohl die Geschlechterverteilung sowohl bei sexuellen Belästigungen als auch bei Vorgesetztenverhältnissen meist anders herum ist. Seine Figurenwahl ist natürlich zu akzeptieren, allerdings dürften hier auch Männerphantasien über sexuelle Beziehungen zu einer attraktiven Vorgesetzte eine Rolle gespielt haben - auch im Hinblick auf die Verfilmung, die Crichton vermutlich schon mitgedacht hat.
    • 3/5
      Crichton is one of my favorite sci-fi authors. This novel is a good suspense/thriller with topical interest (sexual harassment), but little to no science... Perhaps if I had expected that, I'd be rating it higher.
    • 4/5
      A taut and satisfying story of corporate malfeasance, sexual harassment and cover-ups, in which Tom Sanders, a moving-on-up executive at a Seattle tech company, becomes the victim of a sexual pass by his new boss, a former lover. When he makes a formal complaint he finds himself accused of the misconduct, and as he struggles to fight the gossip and assumptions of guilt that pervade his company, he discovers that the harassment is only a means to achieving a larger, more sinister end. A good, quickly-moving story written at a time when the glass ceiling was a lot thicker than now, and corporate sexual harassment was more likely to be considered one of the perks of power.
    • 4/5
      Very different from the first book I read by Michael Crichton, although Disclosure also has that technology theme. Disclosure kept me flipping the pages long into the night and I loved that the focus wasn't entirely on the lawsuit itself, but also tied in with the parallel plot of corporate sabotage.
    • 4/5
      Good story and plot. A great read.
    • 4/5
      Interesting story about harassment in the workplace during a corporate takeover. It's amazing to compare how attitudes have shifted in the 16 years since the book was published. This book is, if remotely true (and it is based upon a true story) a reminder of how attitudes are shifting quite dramatically within a few years. Its also really interesting to hear the views and predictions on technology at the time.An interesting aside to the story is that the company doing the takeover is a print/publishing company while the company being bought out is a high-tech company. Remarkable coincidence for me as I had no idea when I picked the book up.The book was a real page turner, even if a little predictable. Worth reading despite how dated it has become within a short time.
    • 4/5
      I am always a little surpised at how much I like Michael Crichton's work. Writing with a bent toward technology always runs the risk of being dated. The work may then fade. Disclosure is about computers, but is it also about the law and fidelity. A very good book.
    • 5/5
      I read this book in less than a day! I just couldn't put it down! Best book I have read in a while.
    • 4/5
      Even though this book came out over 15 years ago, the story line reads like it could have been just published. (Technical aspects of the main character's job in electronics manufacturing may be dated, but this is only the backdrop for the story, not the focus of the book, so it didn't matter) The story develops in such a way that you care about what happens to the main character and want to keep reading.
    • 4/5
      This was a novel ahead of its time examining an issue that is becoming more relevant with each passing year. The basic plot is a workplace dispute over the behaviour of a female manager towards her male subordinate. She claims he sexually assaulted her; he claims she made a sexual advance towards him.At the time, Crichton raised an issue that touched his friends/family and made him re-examine what he had learnt about sexual power. The screen play that was written for the subsequent film is a slick and authentic articulation of the book.At the same time, the characterisation is a bit clunky and simplistic. The plot might have been more compelling if you did not know in the advance that the woman was lying. The insights and debate might have been thought provoking if the female lead is less of a pantomime villain. Crichton claims that 'sexual harassment is about power'. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. In practice, it can also be about misunderstanding, rejection and punishment. A more interesting angle - one amply explored through this story - is that false accusations are about power too.
    • 4/5
      Loved it. Interesting take on the topic of sexual harrassment. Read like a screenplay because of the short chapters. Started reading it and couldn't put it down.
    • 1/5
      In State of Fear, Michael Crichton does a fine job of weaving intellectual discussion of global warming into the story line. I had hoped for a similar treatment of gender discrimination in employment to appear in Disclosure. I was disappointed--or I should say I was so disappointed in every respect by the first 57 pages (which took about 20 minutes to read) that I elected not finish the book. By page 57 the author had introduced about 15 characters, none of whom sparked any interest, and all of whom spoke to each other in trite businessese, like newly-minted MBA's from lesser schools on their first job. The book was written in 1993. It covers the high tech electronics industry of Seattle and the Bay area. The technology described, the novelty of which may have helped carry the narrative in 1993, seems pedestrian today, and so adds no zing or flare for a reader in 2007.Most disappointing was the caliber of the writing, which was far below the author's standard. Interestingly, Crichton employs more profanity in this book than usual, perhaps in an effort to bring zest to numbingly dull discourse.Fortunately, I bought the book at a sale at the Los Alamos Library for only $.50, so I don't feel I was robbed. (JAB)