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His latest, and I assume last. Richard Preston, another author I don't know, completed the novel. Anyone planning on reading it? I'll probably put it on the ol' Christmas list.

 

I liked Crichton so I'll probably get around to reading it eventually, but I can wait for the paperback.

 

Preston wrote the Hot Zone, I think.


Crichton got silly towards the end of his career. I probably won't read it.

 

I didn't like Next that much but thought the rest was pretty good.

 

I didn't like Next, Timeline, or obviously State of Fear.

 

I liked State of Fear, but I took it for what it was. Fiction.

The outrageousness of the story was entertaining, even if the pseudoscience wasn't.

Haven't read Next or Timeline.

 

Timeline was very entertaining, although the movie is terrible. State of Fear was taken by almost everyone as anti-global warming when it was pretty clearly more of an anti-hysteria message.

 

Crichton was a major skeptic. It was the only novel he wrote with scientific references as footnotes at the bottom of pages.

 

Don't see why that makes him "silly". His stance came off as more of questioning the cause of global warming and the cautioning against the zeal of the anthropogenic crowd. He also made a point to mock celebrities that get involved with the cause, which may seem a tad ironic.

 

Eh. I'm also not a fan of lawyers being the main character in every other modern novel. Apologies to lawyers.

 

I don't think attorney protagonists are common in Crichton novels. Not sure there's even two.

 

Was speaking of State of Fear specifically, not Crichton in general.