This is my second John Lange novel, and it was much better than the first one I read. Since I discovered that Michael Crichton, one of my favorite authors, used the pseudonym Lange to write several novels early in his career I've been dying to read them all.This has the makings of a great Crichto...
NEXT BY MICHAEL CRICHTON: I’m still trying to figure out how this manuscript landed in the hands of an editor and actually got the go ahead to be published in time for Christmas. I can’t help but think about all those dads that are going to be so disappointed on December 26th when they crack ope...
It is easy to fall in love with Crichton’s writing. It immediately grasps you as solid writing. It is funny, easy, polished, gripping when it needs to be, authentic in both styles – fiction and memoir – and it stays with you long after the reading has ended. There is not a single excess word in a...
This is my first Crichton since the Andromeda Strain written so many years ago. Another reason to ignore the professional critics who have not been terribly kind to Crichton in the past few years. I really liked this book. It has a marvelous blend of science, information and a good plot that kee...
If you enjoy other Michael Crichton novels then Rising Sun will not disappoint. Similar to other Crichton novels, the real story is not contained solely among the central characters, but is within the underlying theme of the book. While Jurassic Park and Prey are cautionary tales about the ethi...
The Strain That Started It All(A Book Review of Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain)Where others credit classic writers like Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, I forever owe my first real taste of science fiction to Michael Crichton — long before I was even made aware that such a classification exi...
Back in 1993, after reading Jurassic Park (see review of that book HERE), I was like in Crichton-mode actived! ;)So, my next novel had to be by Michael Crichton!I went to the bookstore and this one was the first book that I checked and after reading the premise, I found it promising. ;)So, I bo...
Michael Crichton's work should be considered the epitome of geek literature (AKA science fiction, genre fiction, or speculative fiction), but was somehow embraced by the mainstream -- so much so that even if the academic crowd doesn't take him very seriously, Crichton still addressed Congress. Ge...
In a time when history was an infant, any traveller from a far off land would have been treated a curiosity. To imagine Marco Polo or Ibn Battuta at a place I know of in a time far ago would have been a most amusing thing. This story speaks of one such seemingly unnatural pairing : an Arab in the...
Siapa yang tidak mengenal Michael Crichton? Penulis sci-fi paling ngetop berkat karya-karyanya yang sensasional. Jurrasic Park, The Lost World, Timeline, Sphere, Congo, semuanya tentang dunia sci-fi yang tidak terbayangkan pada zamannya. Buku beliau yang saya baca baru 2, yaitu Timeline dan Spher...
Ah, Jurassic Park, a keystone moment in movie history where dinosaurs were brought to the silver screen in such an indelible way. I don't think it would be inaccurate to say the movie franchise (especially with the most recent entry of Jurassic World) has significantly overshadowed the book. He...
I have always had a rocky relationship with the genre of cautionary science fiction. There tend to be two types of this, those that explicitly or implicitly anti-science or anti-technology (I might call it science fiction for Luddites), and those that are not. I find the later to be far more acce...
If someone recommended to me a book about shape-shifting creatures who feed on human flesh to spawn and have a central mothership nest in the middle of a desert, I think I would have never, ever picked up that book and recommended Twilight to that person in return, out of sheer spite. Yes, and I ...
A thinking man's adventure-thriller -- even more so than any of his other works, this is easily Crichton's second-best novel over the course of his career. In almost every other effort he relentlessly covered contemporary or near-future territory and the theme of scary, or potentially dystopia-in...
Alright, I've waited to review this book long enough. The fact is, I waited so long because I could never find enough hate filled words to accurately describe my opinion of this book. However I don't think I'll ever find them, so here it goes. A new goodreads friend asked me why I hate Michael Cr...
Robert Dolinger es el joven dueño de una empresa de investigación científica llamada ITC ubicada en Nueva México. Se le reconoce como genio, extremadamente exigente y con una capacidad enorme de trabajo. ITC también está financiando varias costosas excavaciones arqueológicas por diferentes partes...
Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin is virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane.PAt a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial airliner triggers a press...
Estado de miedo es una novela de denuncia que ya está causando mucha polémica en EEUU e Inglaterra. Michael Crichton dedicó tres años a la investigación de los datos y cifras que nos facilitan los investigadores científicos sobre el calentamiento global de la tierra, lo que llamamos el efecto inv...
Αχ Θε μου αυτός ο Κράιτον. Δεύτερο βιβλίο που διαβάζω κι έχω πάνω κάτω την ίδια άποψη με το Μετά. Τώρα είναι ακόμη χειρότερα τα πράγματα μιας και το βιβλίο το έγραψε τη δεκαετία του 1960, με ψευδώνυμο και μάλιστα όντας φοιτητής της Ιατρικής. Λοιπόν το βιβλίο γενικά είναι κάπως καλό. Η υπόθεση μπο...
A story about the potential perils of advanced technology chronicles the chaos that ensues when the prehistoric monsters living in a theme park run amok, in the novelization of the popular new film. Movie tie-in.
En el siglo X, el califa de Bagdad envía un embajador al rey de los búlgaros, pero el emisario es secuestrado por los vikingos. Para el refinado diplomático, las costumbres bárbaras de los pueblos escandinavos resultan a la vez salvajes y fascinantes. Y junto a ellos y a su jefe Buliwyf emprende ...
In the next bunk, Kelly was still asleep, snoring loudly. He looked out the window at the entrance to the big building, and s aw that the adults were gone. The Explorer was standing by the entrance, but there was no one inside the car. Their trailer sat isolated 'n the cle...
Abbreviations serve an important time-saving function, but there seems to be an additional purpose. Abbreviations are a code, a secret and impenetrable language, the cabalistic symbols of medical society. For instance: “The PMI, corresponding to the LBCD, was located in the 5th ICS two centimeter...
Las sombras de las rocas se rizaban sobre los círculos concéntricos de la arena rastrillada. Yo contemplaba su dibujo. Connor seguía dentro, mirando la televisión. Se oía débilmente el telediario. Por supuesto, un templo zen había de tener televisor. Yo empezaba a acostumbrarme a estas contradicc...
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Wu. How many different species have you made so far?” “I’m not exactly sure,” Wu said. “I believe the number at the moment is fifteen. Fifteen species. Do you know, Ed?” “Yes, it’s fifteen,” Ed Regis said, nodding. “You don’t know for sure?” Malcolm said, affecting astonishment. Wu smiled. “I sto...
Connor and I went down the hall to the sound stage where the Action News set was still lit up. On the set, the evening broadcast was being replayed with the sound off. The anchorman pointed to the monitor. “I’m not stupid, Bobby. I watch these things. She did the lead-in and the wrap-up the last ...
He wrinkled his nose in distaste. How could Benson tolerate a place like this? He watched as the spotlight swung through the darkness and came to rest on a pair of long tapering thighs. There was an expectant rustling in the audience. It reminded Ellis of his days in the Navy, stationed in Baltim...
Lines and braces were being doubled, so that if some were shot away the others would allow the ship to sail. Bedding and blankets, soaked in water, were lashed along rails and bulkheads to protect against flying splinters. The entire deck was washed down repeatedly, soaking the dry wood to reduce...
36:30:42 “Stand by,” a technician said. “Coming in now.” In the rubber floor, in the center of the curved water shields, small flashes of light appeared. Gordon glanced at Stern. “We’ll know what happened in just a minute.” T...
Dave was on the roof of the cab, wedged between the light bar and the slope of the ambulance. He leaned over the driver’s side. There was a big side mirror there. He could see an ugly black-bearded man, driving and shouting. He knew the man was going to hurt Jamie. He could see the man baring his...