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Old 04-23-2012, 11:33 AM   #16
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Crichton does a swell infodump. Most of his don't bother me as much as from other authors, even while I'm wanting him to spread it out a bit more.

I can see why his books make good movie source material. They feel cinematic. I was impressed by how well The 13th Warrior movie captured The Eaters of the Dead. Usually movie versions go horribly off the rails.
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Old 04-23-2012, 03:06 PM   #17
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His later books were really, REALLY bad. He wrote one truly dreadful book called "State of Fear", in which he attempted to discredit global warning by use of "pseudo-science" of the worst kind.
You, sir, are exactly incorrect!

"State of Fear" was much better researched and documented than the vast majority of blantantly false science behind the man-made global warming movement. Follow the money: The National Science Foundation thought we were entering a new ice age in the 1970s when they could get funding for their research and now that global warming is the source of their meal tickets, they've changed their tune.
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OMG - he also wrote "Twister" which was later turned into a movie!! No wonder that movie had something extra.

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Looking at Wiki, it doesn't look like there was a "novel", just a screenplay?
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Liked Andromeda Strain (and the first movie)
Loved Jurassic Park (and all the movies).
Liked Timeline (and hated the movie.)
Liked Disclosure a little (and like the movie a little, too.)

The only novel I've read and didn't like was Airframe, so maybe I should stop while I'm ahead.

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Congo and Sphere were low points for me (scratch the 80's, lol). Disclosure and State of Fear were so-so. I enjoyed all his others (have not read Next or Pirate Latitudes).
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My favorites of his are Airframe and Prey.
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You, sir, are exactly incorrect!

"State of Fear" was much better researched and documented than the vast majority of blantantly false science behind the man-made global warming movement. Follow the money: The National Science Foundation thought we were entering a new ice age in the 1970s when they could get funding for their research and now that global warming is the source of their meal tickets, they've changed their tune.
Oh, I beg you, let's not go there. There are lots of places to debate AGW/pro and con and the subject almost always end up in flame wars. Can't we just get along?
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I liked Airframe. Read it on a flight.
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You, sir, are exactly incorrect!

"State of Fear" was much better researched and documented than the vast majority of blantantly false science behind the man-made global warming movement. Follow the money: The National Science Foundation thought we were entering a new ice age in the 1970s when they could get funding for their research and now that global warming is the source of their meal tickets, they've changed their tune.
airframe is my favorite MC book so far.

i remember when Newsweek magazine in i think 1975 ran a lead article on the "dangerous cooling of the earth." famine and other global catastrophe was inevitable. really scary stuff.

remarkable how in 25 years they turned things around but overshot to too hot. might be a good subject for another MC book if he were still alive.
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