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MICHAEL CRICHTON IS DEAD
« on: November 06, 2008, 07:20:16 am »

First Steve Irwin, then Bernie Mac, now Michael Crichton, who's next, Bill Nye?
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Re: MICHAEL CRICHTON IS DEAD
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2008, 08:10:44 am »

Another one of my favorite authors...I'll be in my room...

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Re: MICHAEL CRICHTON IS DEAD
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2008, 08:27:37 am »

Shame some of his books were awsome, some were terribly boring I found but some were awesome.
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Re: MICHAEL CRICHTON IS DEAD
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2008, 08:33:37 am »

My opinion of his works is mixed.  I loved Sphere, The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Eaters of the Dead, and The Great Train Robbery.  Travels was also quite interesting.  Apparently once you learn how to bend spoons, you don't care that you can do something that would win you a million dollars from Randi and you just get bored with it.

On the other hand, both of the only two books I've ever gotten so disgusted with that I threw them across the room were also written by Crichton.  I'm speaking of Timeline and Prey, naturally.  It was also the polar opposite of classy when he put a pedophile with a tiny dick into one of his books just so that he could give the guy the same name as one of his critics.

If they haven't locked his Wiki entry yet, there's a constant battle going on between the crowd who's trying to keep it accurate and the guys who are changing it to read "...died yesterday due to being eaten by a Tyrannosaurus while on the toilet".
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Re: MICHAEL CRICHTON IS DEAD
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2008, 01:59:51 pm »

Aw, fuck.
I liked that guy.
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Re: MICHAEL CRICHTON IS DEAD
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2008, 05:35:36 am »

First Steve Irwin, then Bernie Mac, now Michael Crichton, who's next, Bill Nye?

I hear Terry Pratchett has alzheimers?
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Re: MICHAEL CRICHTON IS DEAD
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2008, 05:49:15 am »

Early onset, yes :(
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Re: MICHAEL CRICHTON IS DEAD
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2008, 06:22:18 am »

Awww man, the author of Jurrasic Park?

:( You shall be missed, Micheal.
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