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hrgiger
11-05-2008, 12:52 PM
I didn't think he was that old. Not like 66 is all that old but he had the big C. I was a fan of his books and it was Jurassic Park that got me excited about CG.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081105/ap_en_ot/obit_crichton
Mitja
11-05-2008, 01:34 PM
I was about to write about it too. Huge loss! He was my favourite writer, really.
I think I read Jurassic Park and the lost world 3 times. Not to mention The great train robbery and Prey...
mosconariz
11-05-2008, 02:35 PM
Damn... I hope they are some dinosaurs in heaven
RollerJesus
11-05-2008, 02:53 PM
Huge fan here too, some really great reads. Airframe is one of my favorites... Damn!
JeffrySG
11-05-2008, 03:24 PM
This is sad. I really enjoyed many of his earlier books but must admit that I thought his writing became really really bad in recent years. They read to me like really poor screen plays.
Tom Wood
11-05-2008, 06:11 PM
Terrible loss. I read Jurassic Park in a single sitting, and always enjoy the scene in the movie when they first see the brontosaurus tearing off the top of the tree. Perfect combination of music, emotion, wonder, and oh yeah - CG!
Netvudu
11-05-2008, 06:15 PM
Itīs sad, though I always thought he was overrrated.
I also thought it was spelled "Crichton"...



...I know, I know...smart@$$
Titus
11-05-2008, 06:33 PM
Huge fan here too, some really great reads. Airframe is one of my favorites... Damn!

I bought Airframe for a flight back home, stupid me.

Besides both JP I really never liked his other novels. I'll read JP again to remember him.
hrgiger
11-05-2008, 06:54 PM
Itīs sad, though I always thought he was overrrated.
I also thought it was spelled "Crichton"...



Yes, I meant to type crichton. It's just so natural for me to make everything a gh when you're making the i sound.
IMI
11-05-2008, 07:08 PM
Oh wow, terrible. :(

It was The Andromeda Strain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain) that first got me into sci-fi.
jin choung
11-05-2008, 08:18 PM
what's with everyone dying this year?

anyway too bad. i read a few of his books and he was an entertaining writer with really great ideas. the whole dna trapped in blood trapped in mosquito trapped in amber thing may not have been his idea but it really infected the popular imagination.

he will be missed.

jin

p.s. the book about the japanese turned into a sean connery wesley snipes abomination... it was a good book. forgot the name of it but the book was awesome. the movie was execrable.
crashnburn
11-05-2008, 08:40 PM
'The Art of War' I think that was.

Very sad news, he will be missed. Especially by his family and friends.
SBowie
11-06-2008, 07:56 AM
No, it was "Rising Sun" ....
crashnburn
11-06-2008, 11:32 AM
DOH :foreheads
Matt
11-07-2008, 05:52 AM
A sad loss, R.I.P. Michael.
BigHache
11-10-2008, 09:04 AM
Two of my favs, though not recent, have been "West World" and "Coma".