Why You Should Read: Michael Crichton (Spoiler-Free)

you know something it kind of stalls it for us sometimes I get nostalgic from my teenage years where all I read was like a handful of authors and you know what they didn't do they didn't put out book one of a trilogy or book one of a plan nine book series it was just hit after hit after hit of stand-alone stories but they didn't mean that they weren't amazing and so what I want to talk to you guys about today is what made Michael Crichton such a special part of my life as a teenager growing up in the 1990s let's take a look at Michael Crichton personally I don't do much in theory I have to deal with the facts and on the basis of facts I don't see much difference in the behavior of men and women all human behavior has a reason and all behavior is solving a problem power is neither male nor female harassment is about power the undue exercise of power by a superior over subordinate the system didn't screw you the system revealed you do you know what we call a being in the absence of evidence we call it prejudice all your life people will tell you things and most of the time probably 95% of the time what they tell you will be wrong nobody dares to solve the problems because a solution might contradict your philosophy and for most people cleaning too believes is more important than succeeding in the world in the information society nobody thinks we expected to banish paper but we actually banished fog it is often said that if you didn't know history and you didn't know anything you are a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree in other centuries human beings wanted to be saved or improved for freed or educated but in our century they wanted to be entertained the great fear is not of disease or death but a fordham a sense of time on our hands a sense of nothing to do a sense that we are not amused the planet has survived everything in its time and have certainly survived us the rock for its part is not even aware of our existence because we are alive only for a brief instant of its lifespan to it we are like flashes in the dirt let's be clear the planet is not in jeopardy we are in jeopardy we haven't got the power to destroy the planet or to save it but we might have the power to save ourselves the purpose of life is to stay alive watch any animal nature all it does is try to stay alive it doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of his existence it becomes extinct life breaks free life expands to new territories painfully perhaps even dangerously but life finds a way john michael crichton was born in 1942 in Chicago Illinois and earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard for teaching Cambridge and MIT while still a medical student he published the Andromeda Strain and continued to release New York Times bestsellers such as Jurassic Park timeline Congo disclosure sphere and many many more until his unexpected death in 2008 but why should you read from the Emmy Peabody in Writers Guild of America winner Michael Crichton well let's talk about it [Music] [Music] hey what's up bookworms and Crichton fans or you know maybe potential Crichton fans we're gonna find out if I can do my job and tell you why you should read Michael Crichton is special but before we get going guys I want to tell you that what I do with my why you should read is it's a non spoiler kind of thing where I tell you why I really like to know Thor why they were important to me and why I think maybe you should check him out when it comes to Michael Crichton there was no author in the 90s besides maybe Stephen King that was more automatic to me the day one release that they came out with I was getting it and I was reading I think Anne Rice was probably the other one was never in a Grisham or anything like that but you mean he was Crichton or King or Anne Rice in the 90s men that was it for me this is before I was into all the crazy series you see behind me itself so it was just a different time and before I get into why you should read I want tell you really why I decided to start reading Michael Crichton and I think it was kind of like everybody when they first found out about Jurassic Park it was hard but actually it kind of started earlier than that when I was a preteen I was just kind of I looked up to my brother he was six years older than me in anything that he'd read in fantasy I usually checked out but after I had tapped out all of his fantasy books and I wasn't interested in the Hardy Boys or nothing so I was like what else does he got over here and I saw the Andromeda Strain and that was the first science fiction book that I ever read in my life but I didn't think about Crichton again until gosh it was probably right before the Jurassic Park movie came out and I remember going to a bookstore at a time I was looking for more fantasy stuff and I just saw the pictures of the t-rex everywhere obviously if you're a boy growing up and you get to all the way up to about your time you're a teenager you're obsessed with Dinosaurs right so that got my attention but I still I didn't read it but this is a lot like my Stephen King story where there was a gateway and then I went and I absorbed everything they'd done when after Jurassic Park the movie came out I did like everyone else just about go and pick up the book and I devoured it and then I did just like I did my King I went to my high school library and found it they had everything that the guy had written before that book and over that summer I or that know that freshman year of high school I think I read what the terminal man Great Train Robbery Eaters the dead Congo sphere and raising son after I read Jurassic Park and that got me kind of current with his stuff and I just ate it up I could not get enough of it and then it was started with disclosure in 1994 that was the day that I became a Krait reader until the day that he sadly did die but I I want to say that I think a reason that so many people should read Michael Crichton is um the man influenced our pop culture in ways that only Stephen King had up to that point you know he's wrote 28 books most of them were best-selling New York Times bestsellers top 10 top 5 numerous number ones 200 million copies sold worldwide and over a dozen have been adapted into films I think besides Stephen King he probably has the most really bad movie adaptations of his amazing works or whatnot but uh in TV and film I mean he wrote and created Westworld the movie which you now see the TV series on HBO he wrote twister and he wrote and created and sometimes directed and did the show running duties on ER for like 15 years so uh he directed seven movies totals this guy pretty much did a little bit of everything he won numerous awards including a Peabody and Emmy got recognition from the Writers Guild of America the guy was just good just about everything that he touched turned to gold there for a while and especially in the 90s and a little quick little neat little fact that I found while I was actually doing research was I didn't know this was it 1995 he achieved pretty much like the most amazing pop cultural moment that anyone had ever seen it he had been at the same time he had the number one book number one movie and animal TV show in America with a lost world Congo and ER all at the same time and if that was enough he did it again in 1996 with airframe twister in ER again so I mean no one has topped that not even Stephen King not John Grisham not JK Rowling no one had done anything like that so this guy was so far ahead of his competition at the time he could not be stopped and long story short there wasn't much that Michael Crichton wasn't great at you know maybe people consider him a true renaissance man he was everything he did he was better than everyone else at like the term is polymath and if you have it read I think I want to talk about most of the books I kind of won just touch on each book and talk about why I think you would like it or what I liked about it and think maybe you'll find something that you like about him either way you know something that you'll find in there cuz I think that there truly is something for everyone I say that he wasn't bound to any genre but he kind of created his own sub-genre known as the techno thriller I believe that's why even though there's several of his books I wouldn't fall in that category but that's what makes people collect mind that classify him as or they put him in science fiction because he always had some kind of take or some kind of prediction about what was coming in a future and a lot of times he got it right that's what's really amazing about it but even when it seems straightforward in current day settings he tried to always like I said make some kind of bold statement or order something that he thought that we were heading towards like for example in disclosure very forward-thinking he basically predicted the e-reader and virtual databases and this guy just he had a grip on things and I think it's because you know he had a PhD from Harvard and in medicine and somebody that so the guy was very very intelligent but he never shied away from his feelings on a political landscape or how the media controls people through fear and things like that and while some of his ideas might have seemed far-fetched at the time like I said they were all based in science and a lot of them have made you think wow he was really ahead of the curve on that so while you hear me a lot of times say I don't like it when people put modern-day politics into the writing I think Crichton did it in a way that was like suggesting what he thought we were heading towards more than hey this is my opinion this is why it's right and I'm gonna talk about the president no that's not that's not exactly what he did you know he had his problems with with Pomi crony capitalism he has problem with with just the corporate world and how things were run he had a big problem with the way that the media ran fair like I said ran fear through I said control isn't that a lot of that stuff is very very eye-opening when you think about it today some of the things that he said but he wasn't cynical you know he acknowledged the perils of mankind brought through in science and you know technological advances meddling and things that we shouldn't be meddling with yet that we don't understand but all of his works I think II it has somewhat a skeptical view on humanity pretty much their overall importance to our planet he believed we were going to stop thanking for ourselves and if you read social media for five minutes I'd say you can see that he may not have been wrong you know because everything is just a big echo chamber now and if you disagree with me you are evil is kind of what is it because he saw these things he's always saying before and I'm not saying he was the only person who saw those things but he was like the first one who kind of popularized some of these thoughts at least in my life so let me talk briefly about the books of his that I've read and give you an idea of one or a dozen that you might be looking for because there's something here for everyone I know this a little different format than my usual why you sharee but there's just so much to talk about that if I don't just kind of do it this way I'm gonna talk for an hour so I'm gonna run through about 15 or so books here of his that I've read and why I think that you maybe should read those and I start with the Andromeda Strain like I said it's my very first science fiction book and Mindy claimed it created the techno-thriller as well as popularized the whole deadly plague sub-genre this was 1969 you know a lot of people think that what Stephen King or Robert mccannon Karen makinen McCarron kind of created that sub-genre but obviously it was here long before that was probably there long before Michael Crichton but that's just kind of or how I'm not that old guys I can't go that far back and dig up everything that's been dealt with in a plague or whatever but this was my introduction to that sub-genre Rhona but I found out about both Brooke Shelf like I said as a preteen and I had only read fantasy up to this point so it completely took me for a loop this was good guys this was years before I read dune or anything like that so his understanding of science and microbiology kind of made it terrifyingly real to me as a young man and the spread of disease in this and how it affects humanity really just makes this fringe horror really so you think about this was what really broke those guy out and yeah it's it's pretty damn scary next up we have the terminal man and this one was something I think that also has kind of gotten popularized much more successfully later and as about experimenting with planting electrodes into the human brain and the brains pleasure centers and you know things go predictably wrong and it basically creates a psychopath that's way too smart for everybody and this was AIT's a quick adrenaline rush reread that you can read it in a couple of sittings like I said that was one of those in high school I checked out like on a Monday and by Wednesday I was up looking for the next book which was the Great Train Robbery because like I did with Stephen King if they had everything it's like I read that first book and then I went back and I read everything a publication order and so that's why I'm kind of going through it in publication order and the Great Train Robbery this probably where I first learned the term page-turner because it is that I don't think this one would you call this one a techno thriller at all really every chapter kind of left me with that I have to see what happens next kind of feeling where you just couldn't stop but I mean it's just a classic heist story it's based off of a real gold robbery that took place in the eighteen 1850s I believe and it's the Victorian London highlights how the how the how the railroad system kind of changed everything for Europe during that time period it's just fun fun Susie assic read doesn't require you to think as hard as some of his more scientific books might and another one I think you could read really really quick I think there's a reason they sell those first three books in a collection of a Andromeda Strain terminal man and Great Train Robbery because the Andromeda Strain that requires some thought and what about it but I feel like terminal man and Great Train Robbery you could probably read those in a weekend not that not that big of a deal but just fun good good times it's a lot I think it's a lot before he became more cynical towards humanity you know so it wasn't as much thoughts about this is why we're screwing everything up you know this is why we're in trouble none of that none of that here it's just like I said when he was youthful he was having a good time I think as with the next one eaters of the Dead now you guys I've talked about his movies or whatnot and I you might know this more might be more familiar you knowing it as the 13th warrior that was what they called the movie version with Antonio Banderas and in my opinion is one of the less painful movie adaptations of his work had a good time with it books obviously it was always going to be better but this was writing something that felt like fantasy horror I mean I know it was based off of historical figures and in historical times but to me it kind of felt like fantasy horror because it has some of the creepiest villains that he ever wrote and it's about a Muslim man traveling with a group of Danes to their Viking settlement in 10th century IDI but they're earned at this time they're hunted by a tribe of savages called the window and these are just some just bloodthirsty like mist creatures it seems like whatever which I'm sure is just kind of a thing it's it's kind of told from a different narrator so you got to hold rely unreliable narrator aspect and some of them saying like we understand it some of these things have been passed down to the centuries they might not be accurate so they can subscribe these creatures it's almost like miss creature shadow creatures or whatnot but uh obviously when you're scared for your life you might be seeing some things right but uh it's it's really good it's a really good idea kind of at a Bram Stoker kind of way where it's like the second-hand accounts of what happened during this time so I thought was an interesting format for him to use but it was really before I had seen anything like that for basically say it's like a found-footage version of a book or whatnot so really neat idea and like I said if you liked how Bram Stoker's Dracula format set up you'll probably have a good time with that one so it's got your history and it's got your horror and it's got your uh well I'll just leave it there Congo now this is one I can't tell you this is probably one of the first times an on Stephen King movie just had me fuming angry in a theater because I can't tell you how bad that [ __ ] show an adaptation they made them in 99 so you had an amazing book and you had an amazing actor in Tim Curry and that's what you [ __ ] out seriously I couldn't believe how bad that move us it in the theaters like why are they turning us into a sci-fi romp movie I don't even understand but the book is almost like an Indiana Jones story but she got scientists instead of a scientist with a with with with huge laptops instead of you know archaeologist with whips or whatnot so this had all the fun stuff from one of those adventures you know up to and including volcanoes and cannibals and things like that but many might find it kind of campy since it does deal with lost cities and treasures and diamonds in the Congo as well as you know gorillas that are using sign language to communicate or whatnot but I mean I've had a blast with it it's a really neat idea I thought and again what I'd like to mostly about Michael Crichton is he was writing stuff like this day I don't know how how he ever came up with the ideas was and no one else was writing anything like this even King wasn't writing stuff this off the wall and I mean that in the highest compliment possible then you have sphere sphere I think is one of the first books that ever melted my mind it just oh my god it was this is about it's about two years before dune for me here and this was the first book that wrote me just by me like question everything on a philosophical level I mean nothing did that for me like sphere did and I mean we're talking about high minds and quantum physics and relativity with black holes and what the human mind is capable of and how we only use like a small percentage of it's something that it's just man it just starts off as just your basic exploring a crashed alien vessel and it just evolves and there's so so much more this is one I think I would love to reread at this age and see if it feel the same way about it as I did then because at the time I was like 15 years old and I just wow wow it just so many get into it without spoiling you yeah I just trust me it's don't watch that garbage movie version read this book and me I want to know how its aged really I really would like to see how its aged so if I didn't have such a busy TBR we'd definitely be rebreathing somebody's just just thinking about these for this for this episode I think about so many things that I thought then I'd like to see if I still feel the same way now but spear man oh god just so many themes you couldn't get enough of like us being our own worst enemy and sowing our own seeds for destruction Oz so good so good that's a top fiver for me for uh for Crichton Jurassic Park do I even need to explain this one I think this was at the time where it felt like only our parents were reading Michael Crichton but we got to see what this is all about because we saw the movie and we loved the movie right look this is the book that launched Crichton of the mainstream all right I think even he would acknowledge that you couldn't go to any bookstore in the nineties about seeing this book everywhere and believe it or not it was pretty popular even before the movie came out I mean there's a reason that Spielberg wanted to make this movie right but I in fact apparently the story is is that he had to bid outbid James Cameron for it and James Cameron wanted to make it more of a horse to already kind of like the book is so and make sure I was wondering do I love that movie don't misunderstand me but the book blows it away on every level and it's really quite different it's a lot more scary than the movie was obviously the Hollywood blockbuster family movie and I feel like it's one of those things like The Shining with Steven Keane where both versions are great both versions really aren't great so don't misunderstand me here but uh what I enjoy about the book because I think everyone knows the plot by now was the the focus on things like a dystopian possibilities from meddling and science that we shouldn't be we shouldn't be playing God or whatnot but one of the criticism that Crichton always got was that his stories all the charts amazing but that his characters were forgettable or they weren't relatable or whatever and I think that with Ian Malcolm he made probably the best character he had ever made because he has someone that could explain the math explain the math the science to us without a becoming Star Trek technobabble he could put it on a calm and cool way I mean he was it was the first time that he'd made like a scientist cool any one of his books where every night I could see that's why the way they went with Jeff Goldblum in the movie I get that but you didn't have to have a PhD in rocket science to understand what was going on here and a book that dealt with DNA strands and stuff like that that was just blowing people away at that time perfect perfect hair head still probably my favorite character he's ever had in one of his books also the book is just so much darker and like I said based on horrid me being a horror guy obviously the movies don't dare to go that way and look I enjoy the new movies with with Chris Pratt with my kids and whatnot but I mean I'm glad mr. Crichton's not around to see this because I don't think he would that or Westworld but he would not be having a good time with either of those so let's move on to Rising Sun if you had enough of the sci-fi stuff how about a modern day modern day in 1992 of corporate espionage story that deals with uneasy japanese-american relations right okay yeah what Crichton does so good here is just show you how far the gap is in the difference between Japanese cultural culture and in a Western mindsets I think he just showed us how different of a world it was it really for me it was my first dose of anything like that and I always wondered reading this is this what Tom Clancy novels are life because if so never read a Tom Clancy novel still whatever I've seen I've seen some of the Jack Ryan movies because I loved Harrison Ford that is the same author is Tom Clancy the does Jack Ryan I anyway when I was reading out wider 2-bit that's what his books were like because if so I probably would like him quite a bit but I still never read any of them so you know drop in the comments tell me why I should read Tom Clancy right i scratch her back you scratch mine right disclosure this was the first Crichton novel that I bought on hardcover the day that it came out and what a start it was because this is a fantastic book and I cannot imagine if this book came out today in this current political climate these this time of identity politics because Crichton would be canceled on Goodreads basically the idea that sexual harassment did not know a gender but that power was determined basically sorry but what I mean is a harassment was determined by power and that was the thing it did ginger didn't matter what not basically it just kept is a wild concept at the time I'm trying to choose my words nicely politely here not not getting any uh reports on the Saffir whatnot but this book is so much more than that you you think about the movie with Michael Douglas and Demi Moore and they basically made it all about that but it was a ton more in that it dealt with you know pulling back the curtain on the cutthroats dog-eat-dog rule of corporate business in America lawsuits on law just to basically wrongful lawsuits and he predicted the American housing market collapse in this book I think in advances in technology I talked about the e-reader thing he reversed gender roles before it was cool right and then I know that people don't like it when it goes the other way they like it when it goes you know this way but they don't like when it goes that way and Crichton wasn't scared he did what I think that no one ever no one thought that this kind of role is possible at the time and to do this in the mid-90s gotta tip your hat to him you really really do but there was a really funny review I read of this recently and I wanted to bring this quote up because I talked about how many things Crichton got right this is from the New York Times review in 1994 it says mr. Crichton irrelevantly entertains us with a complex vision of a digital future complete with cellular phones the size of credit cards that's never gonna happen cd-rom players that can store 600 books and database environments you can virtually walk around in with the guidance of a helpful angel who cracks why's how about you guys but Siri makes jokes at me all the time but a again Crichton was not afraid to take chances and things that probably could make his book seem kind of aged to me the only thing that makes his books fill ages no one's using smart phones that's about the only thing I'm sorry smartphones and I'll actually use them for phones and use them for this right but again very forward-thinking and I think the disclosures got not a rep is just a just an anti-feminist book and I don't think that's what it is it's all read it and make up your own mind don't take that movie as any reason to to form an opinion about it I'm just saying the way I see people get canceled these days for much lesser things I'm glad mr. Crichton did this 20 years ago airframe this is where I kind of started to turn for me this is where I began to question if Crichton had lost his mojo or not it was a knee deep in his time during ER and this book felt like I was reading a Warren Commission report or something it was about plane crash investigation and it just felt like I was reading the investigation of a plane crash like reading the data from a black box or something and I don't know if it's because he was so involved with ER at the time or just his star was rising so high it just felt like he was distracted that's how I felt and I wonder if maybe this one be more interesting to me now you know in 1990 six what was i seventeen eighteen sixteen so math is hard on the fly I might not have been into that and I might be more into it now that's just what I remember but I remember being like that's it when I finished reading it in high school so I don't really have a ton more to offer on that one I know a lot of people continually have it like in their top five Crichton novel so maybe it was a me thing maybe I just wasn't ready for that so much like I did with my Stephen King reread where a lot of books that I read when I was 15 and I was over and I was like 35 or 38 it was different it was different so I'd like to actually revisit that one the future and see if I feel the same way about it my concerns that he had lost his mojo were thrown out the window in 1999 when timeline came out this one is divisive among Crichton fans I absolutely love it it's in the conversation for my favorite Michael Crichton book of all time because before I read this I'd always look at time travel through the Back to the Future style rules where you know you could be able to go back and change things in a timeline in the timeline adjust to those changes this book warped every thoughts about time travel in the best ways and I won't get into too many details because I'd like you to read this but also someone who's really big in the medieval fantasy and historical fiction at the time this dealt with you know basically modern-day characters going back in time to the thirteen hundreds France and I know like I said fans are kind of fight on this one but man I love it it is easily one of my favorite time-travel stories ever right up there with hg wells time machine it just presented so many ideas for stuff I feel like has been kind of you know eight recently when ever heard of Outlander it's that just deals with time-travel that's really wrong of me to say but basically imagine Doctor Who if it was dead as serious that's kind of how I felt about this when I first read it because you know you got your professor you got your younger kids and it's I can't say too much but man I can't talk enough about that book I might actually do an exclusive review just about timeline so I can get into the ideas but man the science might seem a little dense to some people when they're good lures it's so good someone just changed the way that I thought about time travel forever pray I had never even heard of nanotech before this book came out in the early 2000s and if you take away smartphones I feel like this one could probably still hold up today because the swarm the swarm and this is just downright terrifying because when I read it I learned that this was based on real technology and that terrified me right I never looked at equal AI the same way again it's put that way but another good cry story about meddling with science that we don't understand yet and the idea of it having serious consequences especially if that technology becomes self-aware enough to think for itself I think that game horizon zero dawn this might just be me horizon zero dawn plays before I feel like it took a lot of story ideas from this that might just be me but I feel like it got a lot of ideas from that state of fear Crichton was outspoken on climate change I know that's a real big one a hot-button issue for people these days but while he thought it was a very real thing he did not believe it was a man-made problem and he refuted scientific and economic expectations of global warming activists or alarmists and he pointed out that the real motivation was just the pursuit of money because there's so there's a huge amount of money to be made off of scaring the [ __ ] out of people right and he blasts the media in this and the way that they fear monger and I think that's why this book wasn't received as well by modern day audio just because he's flat out like the planets not in trouble we're in trouble we can save us we can't save the planet the planet don't even care about us we're just gonna be a flash and it's it's life cycle you know we'll be over and out before it even notices it we're here and those are the kind of ideas that really just got me to thinking or whatnot so your views on climate change aside I don't think that's gonna affect if you like this book or not I'm just saying he does have his opinions about it and to me the idea of the 24-hour news cycle just being there to scare the [ __ ] out of us and get ratings I think that's blatantly obvious that he was ahead of the curve once again on these things so I think that's why this one recently has started to get a big thumbs down from people but at the time and I said this guy wasn't scared to say any of these things and it really opened my eyes to it next if I had known this was gonna be the last book we got while he was still alive I probably would have felt better about it at the time and I've only just read the once I was lukewarm on it because I felt like the ideas had been done previously in other books and they had been done much better and his books by the way I felt like it was a mash-up of previous novels dealing with no alternative in nedick's and corporate greed etcetera but yeah in truth I feel like this one was kind of a victim of its previous work he had set the bar so high at this point how could he really top himself you know what could he do that he had done already but I mean as a standalone not compared to a previous body of work I think it probably would've been fine but I mean I forgot about it really about a day or two after reading and I never feel that way about his book so that's why I think it's a I kind of felt that way about it but when I read I mean when the tweet came up I was really big on Twitter then more throw than now when the tree came up 2008 that he had passed away I thought I was joke or hoax already joke a hoax no there was so many fake death hoaxes and stuff like that so many of know the man was sick you know obviously was very private he didn't he wasn't really like out there the public eye about hey I'm fighting cancer right now so it was just such a shock to me that when pirate latitudes came out I bought it without questions I thought this could be the last thing my michael creighton Crichton that I ever read ever read and posthumously released stuff always I'm always kind of leery about the how much is actually the author but apparently this manuscript was discovered on his computer after his death and some people said he'd been working on this since the 70s and the 70s he did have an interview where he said he was working on a pirate story so I don't know how much I was actually him but I'll just say that it felt like a much better goodbye to him the next was and much better send-off I think but a seventeenth-century spot swashbuckling story about raiding the Spanish for the booty right and it's just it's a real Treasure Island prequel vibe kind of feels what I had to it and like I said was fine I've been fine if it had been the very last book that I thought I would have talked about for him but there was one more I didn't read micro when it came out because it was like completed by somebody else and I was like I have no interest in that I lived through Brian Herbert bastardizing dune I didn't I didn't need anybody bastardizing Crichton's work so I still haven't read micro so if you have thoughts about micro go ahead and let me know but dragon teeth this was the last one that I read by him this one was also written in the 1970s it deals with the bone Wars you know the bone wars in the 1870s where there was competition for finding dinosaur fossils it was basically the coolest thing since the gold rush 20 years earlier or whatnot but a lot of people kind of caught the spiritual successor to Jurassic Park I'm like just because it's Michael Crichton and deals with dinosaurs but I had all the things we loved about Crichton you know we had that with even about the whole techno-thriller vibe it had the plot twist it had it had the suspense and in it just it was if that had been the last Crichton story I read as it has been I'm fine with it cuz I had the intentions of reading the Andromeda Strain sequel I know people saying oh yeah it's mostly his work I I'm just skeptical on that I mean this is starting to get like Tupac levels here how much stuff that he have ready to go that we didn't know about and apparently just because he didn't encrypt as computers why we even have this stuff or why not but in the end guys I couldn't really do a short version of this video because this is an author I love every bit as much as I love Stephen King and you see my Stephen King collection up there you know how big of a fan I am but him and Crichton were my high school years you know this was everything I mean everybody else was going off and buying their albums and and going to keggers and stuff and I was reading books you know and III think about the fact that I had to make the decision a couple times in high school do I want to actually take my biology book which was this thick or do I want to take that new Crichton book with me I think I'll take the Crichton book or whatnot so that that's kind of how it was for me but uh that was all I read with a little bit of dune and Lord of the Rings and it rereads in high school pretty much all I did but his death just completely caught me off guard in 2000 days I think it it everyone and it just kind of still doesn't feel real it's still that I keep expecting to see like that new Michael Crichton thriller come out you know written by him and not by someone else or posted posthumous lame but in the end I mean why should you read Michael Crichton well because the man not only could write a ripping good yarn as I'd like to say but it leaves you thinking about things you have thoughts in your head after you're done it's not another thing that you forget about five minutes after you finish reading and like I said his story stayed with you and I'd like to see them not get lost to future generations like we're seeing a lot right now we're seeing a bit about generation gap there and I think it's neat to see if you don't share things that you love with your kids how they gonna learn about it if they don't have the interest to learn on their own so that's why a lot of the things that I'm into I try to share with my kids you know what it's up to them if they like it or not obviously but yeah that's just kind of where I am but that's why I think you should you should read it you'll be left questioning a great many things after you finish one of his books so guys have you read Michael Crichton do you want to do you know where to start dropping the comments guys dropping below let me know your thoughts on the polymath that was Michael Crichton if you still need a little idea of a certain book that you might like ask me the question I'll I have no problem talking you about Michael Crichton I could talk about Michael Crichton all day as you've seen here or whatnot but uh that was my Crichton guys I will talk to you in the comments [Music] you

Channel: Mike's Book Reviews

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Rating: 4.9771166 out of 5

Keywords: Review, Reaction, Reading, Books, recap, Michael Crichton, why you should read, andromeda strain, Terminal Man, great train robbery, Eaters of the Dead, Congo, sphere, jurassic park, rising sun, disclosure, lost world, airframe, timeline, prey, state of fear, Next, pirate latitudes, dragon teeth, westworld, twister, ER, 13th warrior, techno thriller, stephen king, john grisham, anne rice, global warming, climate change, science-fiction, thriller, Crichton

Id: 6jqe06Dg6Qo

Length: 36min 5sec (2165 seconds)

Published: Fri May 08 2020