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R. I. P. Michael Crichton (pg. 3)
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| elFreak |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Are you thinking of John Grisham? Crichton's most famous books were not ones that dealt with legal issues. I can see how you would get them mixed up, though, since they both wrote rather bland novels virtually guaranteed to have popular appeal.
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Yeah, i never bothered to read any of their works after putting the books down after maybe 50 pages. They were both quite uninspiring and really did have a bland writing style that never "hooked" me. |
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| elFreak |
| quote: | Originally posted by fayraree
THANKS!!!! wanna hold my dick while I piss too? |
According to recent studies that found that Pakistani men are among those with the smallest penises in the world, this proposition would mean a lot of piss on 4 of his fingers. |
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| diesel_tron3000 |
RIP bro
The Andromeda Strain and Airframe are awesome. another man who was chock full of tru grit |
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| tubularbills |
| so what about ER now? |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Christ, I was only talking about him the other day in the COR. He was never a great prose stylist and I'll repeat what I said about his books from a few days ago:
| quote: | | The hard science behind his novels usually makes them interesting, but less interesting is the way he integrates the fact into the fiction. It's safe to say he's not a master of narrative discourse levels. I've read almost all his novels, but I stopped caring after State of Fear because he always uses the same ty devices to represent himself and the reader in the narrative. And his use of free indirect discourse to disguise the fact he's essentially copying and pasting large chunks from textbooks is just clumsy and lazy. |
Despite all his limitations as a writer I still think he's a class above the likes of Dan Brown because he genuinely did include hard factual data in his novels and you could learn a surprising amount from them on subject areas you wouldn't give a about. Sphere is still one of my favourite novels as well- it's Crichton without almost all the problems listed above.
Overall I'm sad he's died. He formed a big part of my adolescent literary development- I read all his books as a teenager- and it's hard not to feel sad when someone who gave you so many hours of (flawed) entertainment passes away. |
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| Echo of Silence |
Oh wow. I read all of his books. He was one of my favorite authors back in the days when I used the time I had to read books to actually read books.
Now, when I have time to read books, I post **** on TA.
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| stren |
oh no. I've read so many of his books. Sad to see him go
RIP |
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| CGRumler |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
so what about ER now? |
Well, ER is already in its final season. I'm sure that writing for all of the episodes has already been completed. |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by CGRumler
Well, ER is already in its final season. I'm sure that writing for all of the episodes has already been completed. |
ok. its been awhile since i've watched that show. used to be good. but just lost track of it |
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| treeboo |
No mention of Sphere? shame on you guys....
I guess he fell prey to an illness he caught in the congo while watching the rising sun. I guess now he'll be making disclosure's on the state of fear in a lost world. Andromeda Strain. |
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| miamitrance04 |
| R.I.P i read just about all his books, Sphere is such a great book I would recommend it to anyone |
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| emc^2 |
Timeline was a pretty cool book to read... when I was still a wee baby.
I really didn't dig much of his other stuff - like Andromeda Snore, erm Strain.
Sad to see him go but not as sad as Ray Bradbury's passing. |
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