NationStates Jolt Archive


Crichton is dead

Laerod
05-11-2008, 19:07
This comes as a major surprise:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/11/05/obit.crichton/index.html

I'm saddened. I loved Jurassic Park and Next. The world has lost a great author... ='(
Khadgar
05-11-2008, 19:14
Oh my god don't do that. I thought Ben Browder had died.
The One Eyed Weasel
05-11-2008, 19:20
Wow, he was pretty young.
No Names Left Damn It
05-11-2008, 19:29
Woah, shit. That's a real shame.
Nanatsu no Tsuki
05-11-2008, 19:43
Aww man. That's a pity.
Gravlen
05-11-2008, 19:50
Sad. Ah well. Hope he didn't get cancer from second-hand smoking...
Jello Biafra
05-11-2008, 19:52
Wow. That's taking shock about the election to a whole new level.
SaintB
05-11-2008, 20:31
Just add it too my list of shitty things to happen today.I should be feeling good about the presidency but for some reason it seems like the world has conspired to make it one hell of a bad day.
German Nightmare
05-11-2008, 20:34
Ooh, that's too bad.
Gavin113
05-11-2008, 20:34
I know it depresses me. He was one of my favorite authors, and very prolific. Now I wont be able to read any more of his work.
Vampire Knight Zero
05-11-2008, 20:35
That is a sad event indeed. :(
Gauthier
05-11-2008, 20:43
Oh my god don't do that. I thought Ben Browder had died.

Okay, that one deserves...

A Boot to the Head.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/6/62/200px-BootToTheHead-AlbumCover.jpg
Kadarn
05-11-2008, 22:27
A sad day for readers, indeed.
Gauntleted Fist
05-11-2008, 22:31
Shit, I liked reading his books.
The world of literature has lost another great author. :(
Tappee
05-11-2008, 22:33
The news caught me suprise, I read Jurassic Park when I nine, it was the first real adult book that I read, and have since went on to read most of his works. I However bought his last book but have not got around to reading, perhaps now I should get around to it.
Extreme Ironing
05-11-2008, 22:47
*is not happy bunny*
The Black Forrest
06-11-2008, 01:23
Awww that is too bad and a surprise.

His books were great "fluff" reading for airplane trips....
Dimesa
06-11-2008, 01:59
Strange, same year ER ends.
Andaluciae
06-11-2008, 02:01
:( That's quite sad. Crichton was one of my favorite authors when I was younger.
greed and death
06-11-2008, 02:01
Don't worry people Steven Spielberg will write scripts for the nonexistent sequels to his books. sort of like Indiana Jones and the crystal school thing.
Kyronea
06-11-2008, 02:45
This comes as a major surprise:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/11/05/obit.crichton/index.html

I'm saddened. I loved Jurassic Park and Next. The world has lost a great author... ='(

It is sad that someone has died, as it always is.

I, however, am glad we'll get no more books from that hack of a writer.
Ssek
06-11-2008, 02:47
Strange, same year ER ends.

Yeah, if ER had only been on the air a bit longer, they could have saved him.



...okay, I admit that was kinda tasteless.
Intangelon
06-11-2008, 06:05
I don't know about "great", but he was certainly prolific and a master of his largely self-created genre. I really liked The Andromeda Strain and more recently Airframe and Prey. You knew what you were getting with Michael Crichton -- he was the high-end fast-food of science-fiction. He was no Asimov, but he was an important figure in the genre, and he will be missed.
Indri
06-11-2008, 06:31
One of my all-time favorites was The Andromeda Strain and I really liked Prey, State of Fear and Next. The world has lost a good doctor and truly great writer and he will be missed.

I just hope the prices on his other books haven't already gone up since his demise, there are still quite a few I never read.
Collectivity
06-11-2008, 08:03
Dead at 66 - a bit young but he gained fame from his books (and royalties from those dinosaur chasing scary films.)

I hope they have cloned him and lrt him roam free on that special island.......
The Brevious
06-11-2008, 08:23
His books were great "fluff" reading for airplane trips....Too true!
Chernobyl-Pripyat
06-11-2008, 08:26
god dammit >.<


he wrote some good books, too.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
06-11-2008, 08:54
I, however, am glad we'll get no more books from that hack of a writer.
Yeah, and it was terrible how he used to hold people at gunpoint until they'd finished reading his novels.
Delator
06-11-2008, 09:02
His books were great "fluff" reading for airplane trips....

Except for Airframe...:tongue:

It is sad that someone has died, as it always is.

I, however, am glad we'll get no more books from that hack of a writer.

I wouldn't call him a hack...Sphere remains one of my favorite books of all time, but he did have some annoying trends in his writing, particularly ensuring that one supporting character is entirely ignorant of the main scientific subject matter of the book (most notably in Airframe and State of Fear), enabling the principle protagonist to go off on long explanations that could have been more smoothly introduced by simply assuming the reader had a little reading comprehension.

He did the same thing when co-writing the script for Twister.

Still, while not a Great Author...he was certainly a Great Storyteller, and he will be missed.