I was shocked to hear Micheal Crichton passed away at age 66. I never would have guessed he was that old or that sick.
The guy was one of my favourite authors. Sure, he wrote a few clunkers if you’d compare them to other Science Fiction novels, but I think he knew exactly what the Hollywood studios were looking for. You can’t deny that each of his books had excellent a good premise. Though they were based on science, only about 5-10 pages in each of his books dwelled on the actual explanation. The rest had things being blown up/ eaten, bleeding, dying, shape-shifting, getting colder or evolving. Although they did all those things with strict adherence to reality/history/physics. I believe this because of all the references that he would include behind every novel 
Bottom-line: His books were good, not bad. There’s plenty of worse crap out there (ahem… Chetan Bhagat). Crichton was a best-seller. End of story. He will be missed.
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