NEW Michael Crichton Book!!!!

[XZeroII]

This looks awesome. Supposedly, it tries to disprove global warming or something. I can't wait to dig in!


http://www.michaelcrichton.com/fear/index.html

 

[freebee]

Nobody important dies. Its way too sensational. The lawyer shoulda died so many times. Plot doesn't make sense. Its like a poorly written screenplay to a B movie. Lotta nice charts and graphs, typical combination of science and fiction, but it takes the "Day after tomorrow" approach to disasters where 5 people save the world against dozens of trained terrorists. Right.....

edit: wait...there weren't any terrorists in day after tomorrow. Nevertheless, state of fear sucked.

 

[BatmanNate]

Can't be worse than Westworld.

Also add:

Jurassic Park 1 & 2
Sphere
Congo



Andromeda Strain was good, 13th Warrior was OK.

 

[loup garou]

Can't be worse than...uh, everything since Jurassic Park.

 

[brigden]

I'll read it anyway.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: brigden
I'll read it anyway.

So will I...I'm a sucker.

 

[freebee]

Jurassic Park was a brilliant book. Even airframe was ok. But timeline (time travel) and state of fear (global warming) are topics that are far too broad for a sci-fi novel. He should stick to more biological sciences, genetics, crime scene stuff, etc.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: werk
Can't be worse than...uh, everything since Jurassic Park.

Are you kidding? I thought Prey was very good. It was quite unexpected for me, and the implications he raised are very real. Something like that could actually happen. Probably not to the degree that he went in the book, but the nanotechnology creating cameras to be used in the bloodstream could become the future. I thought it raised some good points.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: werk
Can't be worse than...uh, everything since Jurassic Park.

Are you kidding? I thought Prey was very good. It was quite unexpected for me, and the implications he raised are very real. Something like that could actually happen. Probably not to the degree that he went in the book, but the nanotechnology creating cameras to be used in the bloodstream could become the future. I thought it raised some good points.

Sorry, I seriously disliked Prey.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: freebee
Jurassic Park was a brilliant book. Even airframe was ok. But timeline (time travel) and state of fear (global warming) are topics that are far too broad for a sci-fi novel. He should stick to more biological sciences, genetics, crime scene stuff, etc.

He already did a crime scene book called Rising Sun. It was a good book that got turned into a kinda cruddy movie. Crichton doesn't seem to repeat topics, so I wouldn't expect another crime scene book.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: werk
Can't be worse than...uh, everything since Jurassic Park.

Are you kidding? I thought Prey was very good. It was quite unexpected for me, and the implications he raised are very real. Something like that could actually happen. Probably not to the degree that he went in the book, but the nanotechnology creating cameras to be used in the bloodstream could become the future. I thought it raised some good points.

Sorry, I seriously disliked Prey.

Oh well. I guess everyone has different tastes.

 

[StageLeft]

Timeline was awesome. His second last book about the nano bots was a huge disapointment.

 

[SWScorch]

sweet, Crichton is my favorite author. Even though his latest efforts haven't been as good as his earler stuff, they're still interesting and very well-written. I love his style; I can read it so effortlessly and it's like I don't even read the words; the image just forms in my mind.

 

[Howard]

I've read A Case of Need, Terminal Man, and Andromeda Strain. I thought all three were great.

 

[lokiju]

I'm reading it now and thanks everyone for all the fvcking spoliers without warnings!

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: blazert40
I'm reading it now and thanks everyone for all the fvcking spoliers without warnings!

No major spoilers were given. Nothing you wouldn't see in a blurb.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
13th Warrior was OK.

The book was called Eaters Of The Dead. :roll:

 

[alm99]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
13th Warrior was OK.

The book was called Eaters Of The Dead. :roll:

I thought I was the only one that caught that. Obviously he doesn't read books, but watches the movies instead. I loved timeline and prey, but it kinda sucked towards the end with his wife and the other guy.

 

[PowerEngineer]

Originally posted by: freebee
Jurassic Park was a brilliant book. Even airframe was ok. But timeline (time travel) and state of fear (global warming) are topics that are far too broad for a sci-fi novel. He should stick to more biological sciences, genetics, crime scene stuff, etc.

With Jurassic Park, Crichton came up with an interesting concept but IMHO he spoiled it by making the mathimatician babble nonsense about chaos theory (countless times) and the silly notion that spliced in amphibian genes would result in dinosaurs indistinguishable from the extint originals in every way...except that they could change sex. I have Crichton on the lowest rung of the science fiction ladder.