Michael Crichton

[eak227]

Yesterday, while everyone was distracted by something as unimportant as the election of a leader for this country [read:sarcasm], everyone overlooked the truly important and tragic news.

Michael Crichton, beloved author of Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Timeline, creator of ER, etc, etc, passed away on 4 November 2008. He apparently had been privately struggling with cancer for a while now, but as far as I know this was never made public.

This is really sad for me because although his recent books have been kind of lacking, he is still one of my all-time favorite authors.

Not to mention he was both a Harvard undergrad/med school alum, and he lived in my dorm, up on the 4th floor.

He wrote his first book (Andromeda Strain) while in med school at Harvard. Talk about crazy.

[eaodon7747]

uh....ER was awesome when i watched it 5 years ago.....jurassic park was cool........and i dont know about the other stuff he wrote.


oh yeah, alot of people hide their sickness until the end, thats sad....

-----random man

[Dark Sabre]

Yeah, read about this at work today.

Read 12 of his books...enjoyed all of them. I guess I should pick up his others

[rocketman1555]

He wrote some really good books, probably one of the best authors around, he had some really unique storylines

My favorite was Eaters of the Dead

[robotman]

the ones i've read so far are good its always sad when a good author dies

[binary010101]

State of Fear and Timeline were also extremely good books.

We shall all miss him.

[paleonaps]

I loved Michael Chrichton.

I wouldn't be where I am without Jurassic Park. I had always loved dinosaurs, and when I was six my parents caved and let me watch it. It truly inspired me.

I read Jurassic Park (of course), Congo, The Lost World, and some of Timeline. The only problem I had was that his books had too many characters. They were amazing, however, and we won't see the likes of him again soon.

[brobo]

He wrote his first book (Andromeda Strain) while in med school at Harvard. Talk about crazy.

I haven't read the book, but the movie is pretty awesome.
My friend really wants me to read Jurassic Park.

[gneissisnice]

I like Michael Crichton. I read The Andromeda Strain, Timeline and Prey, though I was kinda disappointed in Prey. I dunno, the ending just didn't do it for me.

[aubrey048]

He was the greatest *sniff*. Timeline, the Andromeda Strain, and Jurassic Park were brilliant. Next was awful, though don;t bother with it.