There should be an option for 2.5 stars - I kinda liked it, but not really. I read this book for a graduate seminar (no, really), as techno-thriller is not my usual genre.
I mean, what can I say - the book would have been better if the author hadn't died in the middle (this is often the case). The pseudoscience was bad even by thriller standards, the characters were merely stereotypes and the action, while constant, was also rather repetitive.
That being said, the bugs were awesome.
So while I didn't hate "Honey I shrunk the Grad students", I was not impressed. Crichton has done much better in the past and this book needed work and polishing to bring it up to his usual standard.
Except, of course, he's dead. Minor detail.