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Michael Crichton Died...
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He was one of the first authors I really got into in high school.  Jurassic Park...The Lost World...Congo... Even the movies based off those books made up a huge part of my games I played with my friends growing up. 

More recently, I read Travels, which was such a good book.  Probably my favorite next to Jurassic Park.  Just one of those authors that I connected with really well.  It's sad to see him go, but he left us with some damn good stories. 

RIP Michael


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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: Toddo]
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RIP.


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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: Toddo]
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RIP :frown:

This sucks. My idols and the few remaining people I respect seem to be dropping like flies. I recently realized that ALL of my idols will die in my lifetime. The ones that haven't died already.


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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: Moodion]
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RIP


never one of my favourites but still a modern classic... what happened?


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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: Toddo]
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He was my favorite author throughout most of my teenage years.  I read nearly all of his books...will have to go back and read some of his stuff again.


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“Strengthened by contemplation and study,
I will not fear my passions like a coward.
My body I will give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
my spirit as was before: ascetic.”

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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: Lion]
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I think it was cancer that he succumbed to. I remember reading Sphere when I was in 8th grade, and I couldn't put it down. Read it in one day. Jurassic park was also a pivotal movie for my generation.


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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: Green_T]
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Damn. Granted most times I read his stuff was when it came out on paperback and I needed reading material at the airport, but I loved Sphere and Jurassic Park.

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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: Toddo]
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RIP

The man provided my middle school years with plenty of good reads.


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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: Entropymancer]
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I just heard.
It's pretty sad, I was such a huge fan of all his books.
He definitely affected me through his writing and imagination.
Sphere and Jurassic Park.. just wow.
OP I haven't heard of travels? is that a newer book or and older one? I thought his last book was the one about environmental terrorism.


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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: Toddo]
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Damn.. Sphere and Jurassic Park served as a springboard for pursuing my academics in literature as well as my fiction writing.



He definitely left his mark on our culture, which is all an author could really ask for.

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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: Toddo]
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Aww... damn.

I too was a big fan during my high school days. His works from that age intrigued me, but didn' QUITE fulfill my overall desire for a good story. I later found satisfaction in the very rewarding stories between the covers of both Timeline and Prey. I then went back to some of his earlier work, and discovered the Andromeda Strain, which I also greatly enjoyed. (Although it was a little anti-climactic.)

Timeline and Prey will probably always be my two favorites by him.

Welp, we all gotta go sometime. He wrote some awesome stuff before he left. I'm grateful that he didn't die with his music still in him.

Nothing quite like watching a mortal shell fall away... it's a wonderful thing when the spirit has been expressed to such a degree beforehand.

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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: JacquesCousteau]
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Damn, it's too bad he didn't quite make it to see ER finish up. I had no idea the man even had cancer. :frown:

I was a huge fan of his books when I was younger and just re read Jurassic Park a few months ago. I wonder if it ever bothered him that despite how brilliant and technical his writing was, possibly his biggest fan base were 12-15 year old kids.


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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: Toddo]
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Travels was published in '88.  Non-Fiction about his own adventures in medical school and exploring the world.  Like most people, I found his ideas amazing in highschool.  But I JUST read Travels and I found it to be one of those books that I made me stay up all day/night reading-not because it was fast paced or thriller-but because  I was having so much fun reading the thing, pure enjoyment.  He's been on some pretty crazy adventures...and brought millions of people along for the ride with his books.


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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: Toddo]
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Damn

Sphere was the first adult book I ever read... terrified me.

I suspect they can mix his blood with frog DNA and bring him back to life


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~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"

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Re: Michael Crichton Died... *DELETED* [Re: JacquesCousteau]
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“Strengthened by contemplation and study,
I will not fear my passions like a coward.
My body I will give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
my spirit as was before: ascetic.”

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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: Lion]
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yeah...he will be missed. i watched The Great Train Robbery in his honor last night with my room mate.

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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: JT]
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Damn it! MC is [was] one of my favorite authors of all time! :bye:


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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: Ima Trooper]
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Jurassic park was my favorite movie as a youngster in the 90s. I had so many JP toys, whole compounds and huge dinosaurs, projectil firing vehicles. etc... A lot of video games about it too.    Chrichton did some good work.


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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: Stimpy913]
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Very Sad To See Him Go So Early.  We also lost Tony Hillerman this year.

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Re: Michael Crichton Died... [Re: arago]
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RIP MC.  Prey was/is one of my favorite stories.


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Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little security shall soon have neither.
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