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Originally Posted by Ea
I liked "13th Warrior" quite a lot, but didn't like the book - but then I don't like Crichton at all.
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I *love* that movie, I hadn't read the book before it came out (heck I didn't even know it was Crichton when it came out) and boy was I surprised by how scary it is. I did eventually read the book, and I found it interesting that the story was a melding of actual historical documents and the legend of Beowulf.
I don't know how I came to read Jurassic Park, my sister probably thrust it at me, but I found it to be one of Crichton's best. There was the usual extreme extrapolation of the dangers of a *new* science, but I thought in this case it was interesting, and he really succeeded in bringing the suspense. After reading the novel we went to see the movie in the theatre. Yeah it was a big exciting blockbuster but the most suspenseful scene was completely missing, the best character was turned into a babbling cartoon, and the end was downright insulting.
Has anyone actually read Andromeda Strain? That movie used to terrify me as a child, but I've never read it.