michael crichton

I am not a history buff. I had no particular reason to read the “Timeline” other than Michael Crichton wrote it. I am very happy I followed my notion. I read the first 50 pages two months ago, forgot all about it, and then picked it up to keep me company on some long flights. [...]

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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it. – Akio Morita I was first introduced to Michael Crichton by complete accident when my husband brought “Travels“ to our Hawaii vacation and I promptly stole it away for my own reading pleasure. Or perhaps more accurately put, Crichton stole me away from all [...]

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If only Global Warming clearly meant what it spells out, we could at least agree to disagree about the same issue.  If it still meant, as it did initially, the slow and steady warming of the globe as a direct result of man’s interference with nature, perhaps we could be legitimately concerned, albeit a tad [...]

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Reading Travels in the perfect setting of Hawaii made it all the more memorable. This is perhaps the least popular work by the prolific Michael Crichton, and yet it served as my introduction to his work and writing.  I also found it very fitting that my first reading of him was an autobiography, and with the life [...]

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