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Michael Crichton will not be down for breakfast...
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 12:01 pm
by ktulu
Michael Crichton has died of the cancer.
Re: Michael Crichton will not be down for breakfast...
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 12:50 pm
by BRWombat
Wow, I hadn't even heard he was ill. I wasn't a fan of everything he wrote, but Andromeda Strain remains an all-time favorite.
RIP.
Re: Michael Crichton will not be down for breakfast...
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 12:59 pm
by darph nader
BRWombat wrote:Wow, I hadn't even heard he was ill. I wasn't a fan of everything he wrote, but Andromeda Strain remains an all-time favorite.
RIP.
I loved the movie.
The original,not that p.o.s. they had on tv awhile back. :mad:
Re: Michael Crichton will not be down for breakfast...
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 1:09 pm
by GRUMPY PIRATE
SAD..I have read some of his stuff. Liked some of it and not so much other works.
And the original move was really well done.
Too bad, he was a good writer.
Like Wombat said, they didn't really say that he was ill.
Re: Michael Crichton will not be down for breakfast...
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 1:46 pm
by JugglingFreak
"Westworld" was always a favorite of mine. It was written and directed by Michael Crichton.
He always struck me as a Disney fan/admirer. I never saw him say it directly but there are a lot of parallels in some of his writing, in particular, "Westworld" and "Jurassic Park".
It seems that way to me, at least.
Re: Michael Crichton will not be down for breakfast...
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 2:20 pm
by hobie16
He was only 66. He wrote some great stuff.
Re: Michael Crichton will not be down for breakfast...
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:08 pm
by Zazu
My favorite of his is "Eaters of the Dead".
Re: Michael Crichton will not be down for breakfast...
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:47 pm
by Sarah Magdalene
One of my favorite books, Timeline ... *Sigh*
:(
Re: Michael Crichton will not be down for breakfast...
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 6:50 am
by GaTechGal
I really loved
State of Fear. And if you ready his stuff and then take in to consideration WHEN it was written, he really wrote about cutting edge technology. His book
Congo was sort of hokey (ok the MOVIE was AWFUL) but the character in it was using a SAT phone to connect up her computer to a mainframe. Pretty cutting edge stuff for 1980!
Re: Michael Crichton will not be down for breakfast...
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:55 am
by GRUMPY PIRATE
GaTechGal wrote:I really loved
State of Fear. And if you ready his stuff and then take in to consideration WHEN it was written, he really wrote about cutting edge technology. His book
Congo was sort of hokey (ok the MOVIE was AWFUL) but the character in it was using a SAT phone to connect up her computer to a mainframe. Pretty cutting edge stuff for 1980!
I don't think it was that big of a leap at the time.
now writing about cell phones in a SCI-FI book..in the 1950's!
That was pretty advanced.