Another brief post, as it's late and my eyes are getting quite heavy. I know it's been a couple days, but I wanted to add my two cents about the passing of Michael Crichton. My friend alerted me to his death, and even though I hadn't read a book of his since
Prey, I was devastated.
Jurassic Park is one of the most worn out paperbacks on my shelf, and for a time I, like many other authors, devoured his work, from
The Great Train Robbery to
The Andromeda Strain to my personal favorite,
Sphere.
He turned a book release into the literary equivalent of a summer blockbuster, and he will be sorely missed.
One thing of note. I've been hooked on the
Hard Case Crime novels for a couple years now. Two books,
Grave Descend and
Zero Cool, were written by a gentleman named John Lange. I enjoyed his books so much, I researched the author to find other works of his. I was surprised and yet not surprised to discover
John Lange was a pseudonym for Mr. Crichton.
Until next time,
B
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