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Originally Posted by beppe
I think Michel Crichton was (is because his books are read, and liked, or not) a fantastic writer, a true gift of our "modern" times.
More than in science he was interested in technology and its consequences, when its limits were extended.
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I actually read a lot of Crichton's novels in my teens and early 20s. I grumbled about them, but still read them. Timeline was the last straw, though-- it was so transparently a (bad, Hollywood-- and too like The Doomsday Book to not be called a ripoff) screenplay and not a novel that it was my last straw and I never touched another word of his writing (so I wasn't able to complain about State of Fear.)
I found him to be profoundly and consistently anti-science and anti-scientist, and all of his books (from JP on at the least) followed the same simplistic action-adventure formula. I'm far from alone in that position-- for example a good article (opinion, of course):
http://www.mikebrotherton.com/?p=685
and the comments in these threads:
http://www.metafilter.com/76266/Mich...dead-at-age-66
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/ar.../11/06/0019253