Crichton is dead!

[AggieDave 6]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/05/print/main4575403.shtml

That's too bad, I really enjoyed his books. Too bad the movies they made from those books weren't all that great.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[pyrodude 0]

Too damn bad. I loved his books. The Great Train Robbery was unheralded, but a really good read. I think Timeline was one of my favorites.

[chaoskitty 0]

Sad news... I enjoyed his work. Cancer really sucks.

[cpoxon 0]

Airframe is one of my favourite books. :-(

Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

[shropshire 0]

R.I.P

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[PLFXpert 0]

I really liked Timeline, too.

I also enjoyed Airframe like another mentioned.

Bummer.

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[skydiverbry 0]

Timeline was one of those books that just stuck in my head forever!

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[PLFXpert 0]

"Quantum foam makes me roam."

I love rhymes.

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[skydiverbry 0]

Yea,Yea, I remember that.I read that book in Dec. 2005

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D.S.#13(Dudeist Skdiver)

[skydiverbry 0]

Yea,Yea, I remember that.I read that book in Dec. 2005

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Growing old is mandatory.Growing up is optional!!

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[gainer 0]

Prey, I'll never forget that it took me 5 days to read the first 100 pages and a day the other 200

[riddler 0]

I've read a number of his books - they were all researched extremely well, I thought, and pieced together masterfully. I thought timeline was kinda lame, but I did like Eaters of the Dead, Airframe, Rising Sun and Congo. Jurassic Park showed how a good book can sometimes become a good movie. Best book that became the worst movie - Congo.

I never watch TV, but I made an effort to watch one episode of ER after I heard he created it, and I thought it wasn't that bad, for television.

All in all, one of my favorite modern authors.

Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

[DougH 270]

RIP. I loved his books, grew up reading them up in this old tree in the backyard.

Awesome writer!

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
=P

[PhreeZone 15]

I'm looking at my bookcase and I have about every book in hard back and some of them in paperback also. I received Jurassic Park as a gift when I was 14 and it has so many creases and worn print that its amazing it is still in one piece, I have read it probably 2 dozen times and its been across the country in my backpack at least 4-5 times by now.

He was one of the great modern fiction writers...

Yesterday is history
And tomorrow is a mystery

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