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drowe
11-06-2008, 09:25 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/11/05/obit.crichton/index.html

really sucks balls.

i was in 6th grade when Jurassic Park (the book) came out. read it and loved it...and briefly turned into a book nerd because of it. I immediately read Sphere, Rising Sun, The Andromeda Strain, and The Lost World when they came out. I dunno what ended up happening to my reading habit, but it started because of MC.

ER used to be a good show too.
abaddon41_80
11-06-2008, 09:38 AM
Definitely my favorite contemporary writer. I loved Jurassic Park, Next, Prey, The Great Train Robbery, Congo, Sphere, and Timeline.
bored of education
11-06-2008, 09:45 AM
that sucks :(
SuperKevin
11-06-2008, 09:48 AM
Luckily all it will take is a scientist to read Jurassic Park and they'll figure out how to clone him.
drowe
11-06-2008, 10:03 AM
also, wtf is up with this trend of people having cancer and not telling anybody. this dude, gene upshaw...i read that they died of cancer and assumed i was just out of the loop...then i find out nobody knew they were sick.
Brent
11-06-2008, 10:49 AM
I lost respect for him when he wrote State of Fear.
giantsfan
11-06-2008, 11:09 AM
I lost respect for him when he wrote State of Fear.

Why? State of fear was a pretty good read and the same type of pseudo-science as in each of his other books.
TitleTown088
11-06-2008, 04:20 PM
also, wtf is up with this trend of people having cancer and not telling anybody. this dude, gene upshaw...i read that they died of cancer and assumed i was just out of the loop...then i find out nobody knew they were sick.

Would you want it to be public? Constantly being questioned about it by the media and such?
SuperKevin
11-06-2008, 04:21 PM
also, wtf is up with this trend of people having cancer and not telling anybody. this dude, gene upshaw...i read that they died of cancer and assumed i was just out of the loop...then i find out nobody knew they were sick.

A lot of these people think they can treat it without making it a big deal.
Brent
11-06-2008, 08:53 PM
Why? State of fear was a pretty good read and the same type of pseudo-science as in each of his other books.
I didnt really enjoy it and he totally misrepresented a lot of people from the scientific community as well as their research.