Talk:Congo (novel)

message: I am no Wiki editing person, but it seems a travesty that this document does not mention the excellent Interactive Fiction adaptation of the book - Trillium/Telarium's "Amazon".  - 6Jun10
In my opinion, this was a bad novel.  KSchutte 02:11, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Alert the internet -- someone thinks a Michael Crichton novel is bad.  Sorry, bud, but it's quite common for people to dislike Crichton's books, especially as he is a popular novelist. GreatGatsby 04:57, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The Great Gatsby also sucked.--207.67.97.70 18:45, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

message: ...said bluntly that “this country will go to war over Zaire before we go to war over any Arab oil state.”
Ah, the good ol' days, eh?
-G  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.67.114.45 (talk) 02:15, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: S. Martins quote within the novel

message: it says that diamonds were later sold to Intel, a real company, when i believe, the company was fictional and named Intec. I'm a noob editor, so i wasn't sure if this merited editing or not, as it was likely meant to imply "Intel" to begin with, so /shrug  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.210.70.70 (talk) 02:33, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Inaccuracy in current entry?

message: Koko (gorilla), the probable inspiration for Amy.
Simpsons Safari, where chimps mine for diamonds, might have been influenced by this book.
 --68.161.148.47 (talk) 05:11, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs mentioning 

message: Quote: "Congo is a Lost World novel in the tradition founded by Henry Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines and featuring the mines of that work's title.[citation needed]"
I can not remember whether King Solomon's mines were explicitly named in Congo, the connection is obvious however. If anybody remembers whether Solomon was explicitely named in Congo, feel free to remove the citation needed, otherwise one could presumably easily edit the paragraph like so:
: "Congo is a novel of the Lost World genre with similarities to H. R. Haggard's King Solomon's Mines. Both feature lost cities in Africa which are the source of highly-desired gems."
Indeed Congo is pretty much what you get if you cross King Solomon's Mines with Mountains of Madness - doesn't even require much shaking nor stirring.
-- Nils Jeppe (talk) 12:04, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Solomon 

message: Googling around I could not find any reference to the volcano/mountain Mukenko featured in the novel. I don't a great deal about geography but it would be useful if someone could verify this, mention Mukenko in the novel and then state whether it was an invention or whether it was real. I see this as especially important seeing as how Crichton generally presents most of his novels as 'false documents' - i.e. fiction as fact. This is especially true of the Congo.
-- 94.1.182.14 (talk) 16:13, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mukenko Fictitious? 

message: The book states that the C-130 [Hercules] transport aircraft was the "Largest Airplane in the world".  This is rubbish.  It is a medium sized aircraft only.  Michael may well have got confused by the C-5 Galaxy, which certainly is very large, but even so it is a basic mistake and someone should have spotted this prior to its publication.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.2.57.146 (talk) 16:39, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, as Kenya is longer than the Virunga region and extends both farther north and south, I don't think it is an error. Look at a map and draw a line from Virunga National Park to Mombassa. It may not be exactly south-east, but it is closer to SE than east. So north-east, east or south-east would all be valid directions, I would think, especially as it doesn't seem like Crichton was giving an exact heading here. Sheriffjt (talk) 00:43, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error in book