Forsaken Lover
02-14-2013, 02:42 PM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/Michael24/2011/michaelcrichton01.jpg
Brain: And by the time I'm through with its training, it shall be cunning, ruthlessly brilliant and possibly deadly.
Pinky: Oh, like Michael Crichton.
So I re-read JP and TLW about once per year (it's a travesty the cruddy TLW movie thoroughly overshadows the far superior novel) but this year I've started to read some of Mr. Crichton's other works. So far I've downed Sphere and Congo. Sphere I really, really liked. The fact it was a psychological tale more than a typical alien thriller was really neat. I'd consider it about on par with JP1. Congo I liked a bit less but it was still alright. The coolest thing about it were the gray gorillas.
Right now I'm starting Prey and then I'll move onto Timeline. I also plan to give State of Fear a try just to see if it's nearly as bad as people say. This being the internet, I think I have a justifiable wariness to "popular e-opinion."
Overall I really like his style of taking modern technology or foreseeable technology and using it to explain a horror situation. His tendency to filibuster does not bother me one bit. As long as the author is talking about things that interest me, I don't mind having a little lecture in the midle of my story. Victor Hugo's Les Mis was much worse about it than any Crichton novel I've read and I love that book to death.
Anyway, what Crichton novels have the posters here read? Thoughts on teh best or worst?
And, of course, R.I.P..
Brain: And by the time I'm through with its training, it shall be cunning, ruthlessly brilliant and possibly deadly.
Pinky: Oh, like Michael Crichton.
So I re-read JP and TLW about once per year (it's a travesty the cruddy TLW movie thoroughly overshadows the far superior novel) but this year I've started to read some of Mr. Crichton's other works. So far I've downed Sphere and Congo. Sphere I really, really liked. The fact it was a psychological tale more than a typical alien thriller was really neat. I'd consider it about on par with JP1. Congo I liked a bit less but it was still alright. The coolest thing about it were the gray gorillas.
Right now I'm starting Prey and then I'll move onto Timeline. I also plan to give State of Fear a try just to see if it's nearly as bad as people say. This being the internet, I think I have a justifiable wariness to "popular e-opinion."
Overall I really like his style of taking modern technology or foreseeable technology and using it to explain a horror situation. His tendency to filibuster does not bother me one bit. As long as the author is talking about things that interest me, I don't mind having a little lecture in the midle of my story. Victor Hugo's Les Mis was much worse about it than any Crichton novel I've read and I love that book to death.
Anyway, what Crichton novels have the posters here read? Thoughts on teh best or worst?
And, of course, R.I.P..