RIP Michael Crichton 1942-2008

[taksraven]

But not necessarily for ER and Jurassic Park, which all of the media was mentioning in the obits.

I think that his best works were The Andromeda Strain (good book AND film, a rare combination) and Westworld. He was really plagiarising himself with Jurassic Park, which was a Westworld ripoff.

We will miss him and his genius.

Taksraven

[gerwalk25]

He will be missed indeed. Of the many books I read (Congo, Sphere, Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park etc.) I liked his semi-autobiographical book Travels.

[ShadowerV2]

Those were good books. He will be missed.

[Vermillion21]

He was a great author, I loved his books. A literary loss.

[F-ZeroOne]

I found his later books rather weaker than the earlier ones; The Andromeda Strain I think is my favourite. And we do have him to thank for making dinosaurs freakin' awesome again.

[Knight26]

He will be missed, an excellent author and story teller who made science fun and accessible to the masses.

[electric indigo]

I found his later books rather weaker than the earlier ones; The Andromeda Strain I think is my favourite. And we do have him to thank for making dinosaurs freakin' awesome again.

x2

His later books were pure C-movie stuff, but Andromeda and the dinosaurs rule the earth.

[Veritas]

News of his passing came as a shock. Sphere, Congo and Jurassic Park were among some of my favorite books growing up.

[Gubaba]

He was a much better film writer than a novelist (even his best books seemed more like novelizations of upcoming movies to me), but his films could be thrilling and interesting (still love Westworld, as hokey as it is).

I met him once at a bookstore I worked at about ten years ago. He was obviously tired, but kind and gracious (and very, very tall).

[Scream Man]

My favourite Novel is Timeline (And the movie was horrendously bad) but after that his stuff became SO-So. Prey was ok, State of Fear was pretty good, but Next was terrible.

Illl miss the guy though.