Michael Crichton dies at 66

[jcdenton]

Sad news. I really liked his books. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[crazyeddie]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Sad news. I really liked his books. <br /> Posted by jcdenton</DIV></p><p>Aw, man.....this really sucks! &nbsp;What a great author he was......66 is way too young to die for such a talent.&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[PistolPete]

Did not see that one coming. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em>So, again we are defeated. This victory belongs to the farmers, not us.</em></p><p><strong>-Kambei Shimada from the movie Seven Samurai</strong></p> </div>

 

[weeman]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Sad news. I really liked his books. <br /> Posted by jcdenton</DIV></p><p>I had no idea he was sick <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-frown.gif" border="0" alt="Frown" title="Frown" /> </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Techies: We do it in the dark. </font></strong></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>"Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.</strong><strong>" -Albert Einstein </strong></font></p> </div>

 

[a_lost_packet_]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Sad news. I really liked his books. Posted by jcdenton</DIV></p><p>A very talented man.&nbsp; I don't think many authors have been able to capture realism and combine it in a fictional story quite the same way as he did.&nbsp; Just about every subject he chose to write about gave us new insight into the human condition.&nbsp; He will be sorely missed.&nbsp; But, at least he left a little bit of himself behind and we're richer for it. </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="1">I put on my robe and wizard hat...</font> </div>

 

[Archer17]

Well put <font color="#000000"><strong>a_lost_packet</strong>_. </font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[CalliArcale]

<p>While he wasn't my favorite author, he was consistently entertaining -- he really knew how to take an interesting concept and turn it into a book that you simply could *not* put down until you'd finished it.&nbsp; And because his books were so accessible to the mainstream, he helped get the general public more interested in a lot of science topics.&nbsp; Sure, the science in "Jurassic Park" (for instance) isn't totally plausible, but how many books have a *statistician* be a major action hero?&nbsp; That was pretty cool.&nbsp; And as ALP said, he was good at capturing the human condition.&nbsp; No story is interesting if the people in it are boring or unrealistic.&nbsp; You have to care about them.&nbsp; And Crichton was very good at making you care about the characters.</p><p>66....&nbsp; How many more books did he still have in him, I wonder?&nbsp; We'll never know. </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[rocketwatcher2001]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Sad news. I really liked his books. <br />Posted by jcdenton</DIV></p><p>I heard it on the news this morning, very sad.&nbsp; Recently he's been one of my favorites, and his books kept getting better and better.</p><p>I will miss him.</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[Doc_Grey]

The <em>Andromeda Strain</em> was one of the books I read as a kid that further cemented my love of science fiction. Didn't like all of his stuff but definately like more than not. I can't readily think of an author whose works had such crossover appeal.&nbsp;

 

[a_lost_packet_]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>.. I can't readily think of an author whose works had such crossover appeal.&nbsp; Posted by Doc_Grey</DIV></p><p>Absolutely!&nbsp;&nbsp; He was able to connect with people on a fundamental level.&nbsp; He wrote great stories and put real people in them.&nbsp; His characters and stories went hand-in-hand.&nbsp; It wasn't a story told with characters or a character experiencing a story.&nbsp; It was a really unique synthesis, IMO.&nbsp; (Similar to S. King's methods at times except I don't really like a lot of his work.. not enough "story" most of the time.)&nbsp; Just looking at his list of books reads like a "Who's who" of great fiction: http://www.michaelcrichton.net/books.html </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="1">I put on my robe and wizard hat...</font> </div>