I really enjoyed Jurassic Park and Timeline. I didn't care for Prey. I actually thought the mundane house-husband stuff at the beginning of the book was better than when the story kicked in.
Favorite Crichton Novel
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Jurassic Park, Although I liked Andromeda Strain and Congo as well
As much as I love the Speilberg film (and It's one of my favs) I really hope someone does a darker and more violent version more akin to the book.
I think I really just want to see Muldoon with a grenade launcher
As much as I love the Speilberg film (and It's one of my favs) I really hope someone does a darker and more violent version more akin to the book.
I think I really just want to see Muldoon with a grenade launcher
Jurassic Park No question. The reason it is my favorite is because it is the book I credit for teaching me to love to read. I have read many of his books and I hope someday I can afford a few of his rare books he wrote under a pseudonym. Many of his books are due for a re-reading. I will enjoy his work for the rest of my life.
Totally! The beginning was really good and when he thought his wife was cheating. Once the reveal came about and the science-y part started, the book got boring and went downhill fast.
Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park were far and away the ones I liked best. I enjoyed Timeline (the movie was pleasant except the time machine sequences completely failed,) Prey and Next. But Crichton was horribly prone to hysteria, as witness Rising Sun about the imminent Japanese economic conquest of the world---say whut? Time does tell, and told the embarrassing truth about Rising Sun.
But as inventive as his plots could be (and his prose easy to read,) Crichton's State of Fear was absolutely ludicrous. That's partly his hysteria again---that time, he was afraid ecofreaks would brainwash us all and ruin the economy! But imagining ecoterrorists was just downright slanderous.
But as inventive as his plots could be (and his prose easy to read,) Crichton's State of Fear was absolutely ludicrous. That's partly his hysteria again---that time, he was afraid ecofreaks would brainwash us all and ruin the economy! But imagining ecoterrorists was just downright slanderous.
1. Eaters of the Dead - great idea combining an actual historical account with the story of Beowulf. Really good film to this as well. And yes, Antonio pulled it off.
2. Jurassic Park - what can't I cover here that everyone does not already know.
3. Timeline - I found the idea of a quantum computer making time travel possible to be fascinating. The book seemed so brief. Too bad Hollywood messed up what should have been an easily entertaining film.
4. Congo - I liked the adventure of it. It goes back to those early 20C kinds of adventures. Movie was okay too.
2. Jurassic Park - what can't I cover here that everyone does not already know.
3. Timeline - I found the idea of a quantum computer making time travel possible to be fascinating. The book seemed so brief. Too bad Hollywood messed up what should have been an easily entertaining film.
4. Congo - I liked the adventure of it. It goes back to those early 20C kinds of adventures. Movie was okay too.
i'm not sure which of his books is my favorite. i've read most of them. though i havent been a big fan of the later books. and i've always thought his endings were really, really weak (Sphere being the one exception). also the movie adaptations were always a let down (Disclosure and Rising Sun being good examples). JP dissapointed compared to the book, but was still a really fun summer movie.
^Yeah, although Rising Sun was a great read, the movie sucked. Sean Connery was terrible and clearly didn't understand any of the Japanese that he was speaking (which, for that character, is a cardinal sin). Wesley Snipes was only cast in the hopes that a black leading man would offset the intense anti-Japanese paranoia & charges of racism. They even changed the ending so that the actual killer was now a white man instead of a Japanese man.
Although, it's interesting that Warner Bros. was the one to make that movie. That was very close to the time of Warner Bros.'s big lawsuit against Sony when Sony paid dearly to buy Peter Guber & Jon Peters out of their production contract at Warner Bros. in order to install Guber & Peters as the new heads of Columbia/Tristar. I wonder if this movie wasn't Warner's way of flipping the bird to Sony.
Although, it's interesting that Warner Bros. was the one to make that movie. That was very close to the time of Warner Bros.'s big lawsuit against Sony when Sony paid dearly to buy Peter Guber & Jon Peters out of their production contract at Warner Bros. in order to install Guber & Peters as the new heads of Columbia/Tristar. I wonder if this movie wasn't Warner's way of flipping the bird to Sony.
Jurassic Park, Sphere, The Great Train Robbery....I was a big fan back when I was in high school, which was when most of his work was being turned into films.
I've read The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Congo, Rising Sun, and Sphere.
Of those, my favorite was Rising Sun.
Oddly, I read Rising Sun before the movie was even announced...but for whatever reason, I pictured the main character as Sean Connery. I was pretty pleased when they ended up casting him.
Of those, my favorite was Rising Sun.
Oddly, I read Rising Sun before the movie was even announced...but for whatever reason, I pictured the main character as Sean Connery. I was pretty pleased when they ended up casting him.
I've only read The Lost World, Airframe, Timeline and Prey. I enjoyed them all, particularly Airframe and Timeline. I didn't pick up his last novels (State of Fear and Next) because I remember reading some pretty disappointing reviews. Given that we'll never get another Crichton story, I may re-consider.
