He Was Crichton

[spectralbovine]

Michael Crichton died.

Jurassic Park came out when I was twelve years old. For as long as I can remember, I loved the hell out of dinosaurs-I wrote a book called The Disastrous Dino War in elementary school-so you can imagine how much I loved that movie. I saw it with my family in a San Francisco movie theater, having smuggled in Burger King

Comments

[missquita]

Oh. Wow. No.

[spectralbovine]

No one saw this coming.

[miniglik]

Aw. :( I read a bunch of his books as a 'tween.

[spectralbovine]

We all did!

[sterope]

I read that he died today and it was really sad. Jurassic Park is my favorite movie. RIP!

[soundingsea]

Aw, man. He was a good one. I'm so glad that he inspired you!

[ethanvahlere]

I liked his science novels, because they were entertaining, and able to make science understandable even to someone like me, who didn't do well in science. I did have problems with his novels like Rising Sun (which I found horribly racist) and Disclosure (which I would have found offensive if it hadn't been so silly), and his calling global warming a myth also didn't sit too well. Having said that, 66 is too young, and it's always sad to have another person die of, as my friends put it, fucking cancer. I'm glad he was able to inspire you.