Highway6 Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Michael Crighton died yesterday of cancer.http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9...;show_article=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tertiary77u Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Michael Crighton died yesterday of cancer.http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9...;show_article=1I saw that. Unfortunately it was somewhat downplayed by the election results on the newscasts I was watching.He was a very intelligent man and a creative writer. He will be missed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanith27 Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 I just heard about this yesterday and was shocked to hear. I had no idea he was sick. For me, he's the only author who's titles I will buy the day they're released. A definite loss to the literary world and more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Bet we couldnt count how many books he wrote. Just imagine how many were made into films. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted November 6, 2008 Author Share Posted November 6, 2008 Looking at his body of work on Wiki.. I'd always thought Andromeda Strain was his first. I didnt realize he wrote 10 more books in the 60s and 70s under a different name.. I'll have to check those out when i get time.Though i liked the JPs, i think Sphere was probably my favorite read of his growing up.I also didnt realize he was quite that old.. he's incredibly young looking for his age. I had him pegged low 50s.It's a big and sudden loss and he will be missed by many. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 1970's Andromeda Strain was a very unique film when it premiered. We kids used to play "end of world" like in the film or rather when everyone is dead and rotting exactly where they were when the virus hits. I can only imagine what my elderly next door neighbors thought when they would see 6 -7 children layed out on the lawn, slumped over in lawn chairs. I still regret not filming it. See that film today and see how eerie those scenes still seem today. Especially when the search crews cut into the wrists of the dead people and red dust seeps out. Bizarre! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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