Michael Crichton

[AE35Unit]

Have only read a few of his,Andromeda Strain,excellent,and Sphere being of note. Never read any Jurassic Park books,no point when the films are out there,plus Conan Doyle's Lost World is far better! (And Chrichton didn't acknowledge Doyle when he wrote his The Lost World,something that upset my brother!)

I seem to remember another early classic i read, The something Man,good book.
Anyone else read his stuff,and whats he writing these days?

[Switchback]

I love Michael Crichton books. Always good, quick, easy reads. Really enjoyable stories, and well written with good tech background info. I've read just about everything. I still need to get to his latest that just went paperback. Next i think it's called.

Timeline is a personal favorite, plus both jurassic park novels. Prey was good. Sphere was good. Great traiin robbery was awesome. The man's a talent!

[AE35Unit]

Were there not 3 JP books? Tell you what,gonna look on fantastic fiction...

[Switchback]

there were three films, but only two books i think....

[AE35Unit]

My god he's done a few hasn't he,including ER(well someone had to i suppose...)
And I loved the film Westworld,never realised it was a book too!
And the one I was thinking of is The Terminal Man! Great book Oh and he's australian too. So you didn't just intent the rotary washing line then...

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/michael-crichton/

[Riselka]

Originally Posted by Switchback

there were three films, but only two books i think....

Yup, and there's supposedly a fourth in the works. The third was bad enough, I wonder how badly the fourth is going to suck?

[Switchback]

yeah, it's a shame what they've done to those films. the lost world was a great book, but the movie was terrible. and the third jurassic park film? well... simply awful!

[AE35Unit]

Actually I enjoyed all the films,and look forward to the next one. They save me the time taken to read a book. Just slap in a DVD-I'm a lazy sod

[Lucien21]

Crichton's books are all the same.

Introduce new wonderful science
Science runs amok and people die.
Rinse and repeat.

The science is usually interesting and the books are extremely easy to read, but the carbon copying gets repetitive.

[AE35Unit]

You could say that about many authors Lucien,I take it you've read all his stuff?

[Lucien21]

I suppose you could say it about some authors to a certain degree, but it does seem more obvious in crichton's novels.

I'm not dissing it. It obviously has been successful.

I enjoyed the novels I have read, but it doesn't make it less formulaic. He has basically been rerwiting andromeda strain for years.

I've read most of his books, seen all of the films and used to be an avid ER viewer.

[nj1]

I've just recieved a copy of 'Eaters of the dead' by Crichton, which was the basis of the film 'The Thirteenth Warrior' haven't read it yet but it's only 186 pages long so should take me about a day to read it.

[AE35Unit]

Well I never knew that nj! Crichton gets everywhere!

[nj1]

Yeah i've noticed that, when I mentioned that i had watched The film and wondered if it was based on a book, JD replied that it was one of Crichtons and I looked him up on fantastic fiction, I was suprised how many of his books had been made into films. Many of them classics in my opinion.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by AE35Unit

And I loved the film Westworld,never realised it was a book too!

The book Westworld is not a novel, but a publication of the screenplay....