Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: Palatable Pulp

*Terminal Man* was originally serialized in *Playboy* magazine and it shows... While the novel maintains typical Chricton characteristics (lots of jargon, some interesting science, and characters with only as much depth as is necessary to not drown in the plot), the original publication format shows. Despite being intended to carry you through on a sweeping suspense ride, the book is quite episodic -- it feels like a serial. Moreover, there are bits of sexuality and so forth thrown in at random times to titiliate the readers. Obviously, *Rising Sun* had a much more sexual plot, but it was purposeful. Here, the occasional sexual elements seem more gratuitous than enything else.As for the plot of medical responsibility, it's interesting, but not carried out as well as in *Jurassic Park*, which deals with a similar theme. (Just because you can do something -- should you?)