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Michael Crichton Dies Aged 66 - 5/11/2008 8:17:15 PM   
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RIP Michael Crichton - 5/11/2008 8:17:15 PM   
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2008 has been an unbelievable year for the amount of legends passing away.

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Very Sad - 5/11/2008 9:28:25 PM   
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Very Sad news. I was always a big fan since childhood.

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- 5/11/2008 9:31:54 PM   
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Very sad news, there have indeed been some major losses this year.

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RE: - 5/11/2008 10:58:21 PM   
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 Very sad news.  I feel a viewing of Jurassic Park is long overdue....

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RE: RE: - 6/11/2008 12:03:21 AM   
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Very sad news.  I feel a viewing of Jurassic Park is long overdue....


You should consider reading the Lost World. It's an excellent read and is better than Jurassic park both book and film. It just a shame Speilberg hardly use any material from the book. Anyway RIP.

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moment of silence - 6/11/2008 4:41:03 AM   
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 He will be sadly missed as i love all his novels and JP remains one of my all time classic films and books. sad i wont have a chance to read any of his books in teh future as i really looked forward to them each summer. better than most summer blockbusters and definetly more gripping than some of their movie adaptations

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RE: moment of silence - 6/11/2008 7:35:04 AM   
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R.I.P. to my favorite author ever!

Very sad news. Crichton triggered my interest in books and science with Jurassic Park (which I read long before the film came out).

His best book must surely be Sphere though! Too bad the film turned out so mediocre (like many of the adaptations).

I think Prey would make a great movie.

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- 6/11/2008 8:42:23 AM   
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It's not often I see a news report of a "celebrity" passing that genuinely saddens me. RIP to a legend and condolences to his family.

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Jurassic Park... - 6/11/2008 10:19:12 AM   
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is my favourite film and 15 years after it's release in theaters we lose both Stan Winston and Michael Chrichton. Legends.

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The man who gave us Jurassic Park - 6/11/2008 10:19:55 AM   
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 Jurassic Park is my favourite movie. It's the movie that seriously got me into movies and it's the movie that got me to read my first novel. And for that I'll forever be indebted to Michael Crichton. I fell out of love with him in recent years after that bizarre oddity that was State of Fear but it can't wipe out the love I have for Jurassic Park, the Lost World, Sphere, Congo, Rising Sun, Andromeda Strain, Airframe and his fantastic short story, Blood Doesn't Come Out. I really really love this and it only appears in the 'McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales'.

Very Sad news indeed.

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RE: RIP Michael Crichton - 6/11/2008 10:26:08 AM   
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2008 has been an unbelievable year for the amount of legends passing away.


I've said it before and I'll say it again. 2008 has been some kind of evil, fucked up and unlucky year. I'm not superstitious or anything, but damn!, not alot has gone right this year and I can't wait till it's over and we're all coated in all kinds of 2009 protective fuzzy goodness.

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State of Fear… - 6/11/2008 10:34:39 AM   
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 I disagree with imoakley666, State of Fear can only be considered an oddity if one is a true, blinkered believer in the Religion of Global Warming. To read the novel with an open mind raises many questions that few scientists care to respond to with any form of objectivity…
Michael Crichton will be much missed for both the thrills and the thoughts and ideas he gifted us with.

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RE: State of Fear… - 6/11/2008 10:47:54 AM   
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I disagree with imoakley666, State of Fear can only be considered an oddity if one is a true, blinkered believer in the Religion of Global Warming. To read the novel with an open mind raises many questions that few scientists care to respond to with any form of objectivity…
Michael Crichton will be much missed for both the thrills and the thoughts and ideas he gifted us with.


Agreed. I really liked Michael Crichton for his novels but also his activism in American science policy. He always seemed to be a voice of reason in the sometimes loony American (or indeed worldwide) science community! Crichton had a big hand in my love for Science and for Movies. I was around ten when Jurrasic Park came to the cinema, and was absolutely blown away by it. A couple of of years later I read the book, and was astonished to find it was even better than the film. He will be missed.

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And "The List" goes on! - 6/11/2008 2:06:46 PM   
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Yet another beloved Exponent goes to rest. Rest In Peace Micheal Crichton. You and Your prose will never be forgotten!
I feel I have to finish reading "Airframe" in tribute.

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I am stunned - 6/11/2008 3:03:31 PM   
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I really dont know what to say. We have lost so many big names in the media/entertainment industry this year, you would think God was upto something.

I remember when Jurassic Park first came out, altho I didnt see it in the cinema at the time I remember very well the big buzz about it. One of the kids I went to school with at the time bought the book and he said it was one of the funniest yet interesting reads. He showed me one paragraph that still sticks in my mind today, where the two kids are talking and mention faeces lol.

RIP Michael Crichton.

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Another sad day - 6/11/2008 5:01:57 PM   
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Death is being completely unmerciful this year. Stan Winston, Bernie Mac, Michael Crichton, Heath Ledger, and the list goes on. Can't we get a break? And if this is representative of a growing Jurassic Park curse, then I'm not leaving the frickin house anymore. I say that with complete seriousness.

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RE: State of Fear… - 7/11/2008 10:23:51 AM   
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I disagree with imoakley666, State of Fear can only be considered an oddity if one is a true, blinkered believer in the Religion of Global Warming. To read the novel with an open mind raises many questions that few scientists care to respond to with any form of objectivity…
Michael Crichton will be much missed for both the thrills and the thoughts and ideas he gifted us with.



Oh, come on. You can't surely deny that if you pump hundreds of years worth of shit into the air, seas and ground something ain't gonna go a bit tit's up. I couldn't give a shit about scientific predictions and estimates. I'm going by the fact that I'm from an industrial town and when it rails the statues loose their faces, the brass door knockers turn green and the harbour is covered in brown foam and their aint no fish there anymore.

I went into reading State of Fear, as with every book and writer, willing to be told a story and read the points they're making. About half way through though I started to feel a bit uncomfortable like sitting next to someone with extreme B.O. You think, really? They can't smell that? That's just not right. No offence to the guy but it was Crichton who was the only one who seemed blinkered by suedo science with that book.

The majority of the yanks like to deny this shit so they don't feel bad about all the fucked up shit they do to the natural world around them. These are the same people who have one of the worlds most beautiful spectacles, Niagra Falls, and glog the surrounding area with a cheesy Blackpool type mess and turn the beautiful landscape of Alaska into swiss cheese looking for possible, tiny ammounts of oil.

But that's besides the point. That duff aside, Crichton WAS an ACE writer and will be missed. Anyone who hasn't read Airframe, do so. His science was spot on there as the guys at Airbus North Wales will tell you. Well. Apart from his obvious misplaced bias toward the american plane builders. Ha ha.

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RE: Michael Crichton Dies Aged 66 - 7/11/2008 4:43:41 PM   
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 The Movies of Michael Crichton from Cinematical

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RE: Michael Crichton Dies Aged 66 - 7/11/2008 5:45:16 PM   
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Jurassic Park was the first adult book I ever read, Tech aged 11, primary school library.

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Saddened, another artist is lost to the void. - 7/11/2008 8:18:28 PM   
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Rest in peace michael, my condolences to your family.

Jurrasic park the film was a load of shit compared to Jurrasic park The novel. Spielberg was the wrong director for that project, for anyone who cares The novel is an ultraviolent techno thriller, the film is a watered down shitfest aimed at kids.
My opinion.

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RE: Michael Crichton Dies Aged 66 - 8/11/2008 2:17:53 AM   
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 Damn you reaper. You've got rid of too many legends (Paul Newman, Michael Crichton, Randy Pausch) and left behind too many overduers. Pick up your game.

RIP Michael Crichton

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