dead

11/5/2008 12:49:59 PM

I was just about to post this but yes.

11/5/2008 12:50:25 PM

dead?

11/5/2008 12:50:43 PM

can he really be dead if i dont know him from Adam?

11/5/2008 12:51:15 PM

dead dead

11/5/2008 12:51:23 PM

Quote :

"John Michael Crichton, M.D. pronounced /'kra?t?n/ [1], (October 23, 1942–November 5, 2008) is an American author, film producer, film director, medical doctor, and television producer best known for his science fiction and techno-thriller novels, films, and television programs. His books have sold over 150 million copies worldwide. His works are usually based on the action genre and heavily feature technology. Many of his future history novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and science background. He's the author of The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Disclosure, Timeline, State of Fear, Prey, and Next. He is also the creator of ER, but most famous for being the author of Jurassic Park, and its sequel The Lost World, both adapted into high grossing films and lead to the very successful franchise."

11/5/2008 12:52:25 PM

damn I guess he really didn't like Obama

11/5/2008 12:53:28 PM

maybe they can splice his dna with a monkey and bring him back as a woman

i'm sure he'd be thrilled

11/5/2008 12:53:51 PM

haha i won the dead race golden girl

11/5/2008 12:53:58 PM

R.I.P. - loved Jurassic Park the movie and book

a friend at work said he went nutjob during his later years denying global warming and stuff

sounds strange considering how scientific his mind was

11/5/2008 1:02:12 PM

really?

FUCK

11/5/2008 1:03:22 PM

RIP Dinosaur man !!1

11/5/2008 1:06:48 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/11/05/obit.crichton/index.html

seriously, that's all they could come up with?

i guess they are too busy with their OMFG OBAMA IS BLACK CAN YOU BELIEVE IT stories to do anything else

[Edited on November 5, 2008 at 1:17 PM. Reason : ok they've added some paragraphs]

11/5/2008 1:14:56 PM

wtf?

11/5/2008 1:15:38 PM

11/5/2008 1:35:40 PM

no !

i liked this dudes movies

He made Paul Walker watchable

11/5/2008 1:36:37 PM

11/5/2008 1:36:45 PM

Quote :

"R.I.P. - loved Jurassic Park the movie and book a friend at work said he went nutjob during his later years denying global warming and stuff sounds strange considering how scientific his mind was"

How about no, and don't tarnish this thread. His book on GW was pretty damn good (and fictional ppl). And there's nothing nutjob (quite the opposite) about disputing global warming.

RIP man

11/5/2008 1:40:24 PM

true enough

11/5/2008 1:42:05 PM

Congo and State of Fear were awesome!

11/5/2008 1:42:39 PM

i keep meaning to read Congo but the movie kinda soured me on it

[Edited on November 5, 2008 at 1:44 PM. Reason : his last one with the talking monkey was eh]

11/5/2008 1:43:44 PM

I've always had a thing for Laura Linney.

11/5/2008 1:45:23 PM

Whoa....for realz?





[Edited on November 5, 2008 at 2:01 PM. Reason : Fuck...it's true ]

11/5/2008 2:00:35 PM

Author Michael Crichton Dead at 66

R.I.P.

11/5/2008 2:01:53 PM

that bastard, he should have written more books. one of my fav. authors.

11/5/2008 2:14:12 PM

Quote :

"i keep meaning to read Congo but the movie kinda soured me on it"

do it, the movie has very little to do with the book.

11/5/2008 2:15:35 PM

That sucks.

11/5/2008 2:23:08 PM

ah, shit.

RIP

...


maybe one of his doomsday plots was too close to the truth??????

11/5/2008 2:24:34 PM

RIP. He was a very good author.

It's sad that people who view global warming with a critical eye are immediately branded nutjobs.

11/5/2008 2:29:48 PM

State of Fear was a good book. I also read Sphere which was a hell of a lot better book than that awful movie with Dustin Hoffman and Sharon Stone.

I recommend State of Fear to anyone since it is a good read loaded with real, referenced data disputing global warming.

RIP Michael Crichton.

11/5/2008 2:30:31 PM

I read Sphere and loved it. Ignored that it was a movie.

11/5/2008 2:31:23 PM

i haven't read State of Fear but it appears that some of the footnotes and appendices used to back up the fictional work were heavily criticized by the scientific community

11/5/2008 2:42:27 PM

That's pretty standard for a lot of his works, I hear.

11/5/2008 2:42:56 PM

I'm in the midst of reading State of Fear because it's one of his only books I haven't read...I think....

There's a lot of scientific data which I don't know how much of it is actual data and how much of it is interpretation of actual data but regardless....Crichton is my favorite author of all time and one of the very few I could read. This sucks

11/5/2008 2:46:48 PM

Someone needs to preserve some of his blood in amber, so that we can clone him in later eras.

11/5/2008 2:48:17 PM

^^^ There is an epilogue in the book where he basically bashes much of the scientific community for their overhyping the global warming crisis IIRC. It's no surprise that he was criticized back.

11/5/2008 2:48:42 PM

RIP

11/5/2008 8:11:24 PM

Quote :

"Someone needs to preserve some of his blood in amber, so that we can clone him in later eras."

Winner.

11/5/2008 8:12:01 PM

dude was 6'9 and graduated from Harvard Medical.

He got his MD b/c he wasn't sure if he could pay the bills writing...

that's just baddass

11/5/2008 8:18:24 PM

11/5/2008 8:19:41 PM

11/5/2008 8:51:49 PM

Quote :

"And there's nothing nutjob (quite the opposite) about disputing global warming. "

11/5/2008 9:11:54 PM

RIP

11/5/2008 9:13:10 PM

I like Prey and Timeline a lot. I highly recommend them if you like his other books.

11/5/2008 9:27:17 PM

He was by far my favorite author -- even his early works he published while in med school were amazing -- I strongly encourage anyone who likes his work to look up "John Lange" -- One of his books was recently republished, the others are extremely hard to come by, but well worth it if you can find them.

On a selfish note, I'm disappointed his book that was due to be released in December wont be making it out :-/ Its been postponed indefinitely

11/5/2008 9:40:42 PM

One of my alltime favorite authors, I started reading b/c of this guy. I'm sad

11/7/2008 9:34:27 PM

11/7/2008 9:38:11 PM

I read: The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Disclosure, Sphere, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, The Lost World,Airframe, Prey and State of Fear


I dunno which would be my favorite, I did like State of Fear b/c of the environmental politics class I took and liked the footnotes on actual data.

I will miss his writings that could have been.

[Edited on November 7, 2008 at 9:52 PM. Reason : s]

11/7/2008 9:51:05 PM

i read airframe in like 3 days...i really liked it

11/7/2008 10:06:33 PM