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Title: Michael Crichton - From peak to poop
Review: Michael Crichton has written two great books and one really good one. They are, in order of their appearance, Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery and Congo. Having produced these, all of which were made into movies of greater or lesser mediocrity, Crichton started writing screen plays, among them, Jurassic Park (I may vomit), Lost Whateverthehellitwas (barf), and Disclosure (double barf, surely one of the worst books ever written). Andromeda Strain is a great piece of work - feasible to a non-scientist who couldn't care less whether a microbe like this could exist in fact, but constituted a very real threat in the world of fiction. Personally, I read this book twice in 24 hours (the only other one was Silence of the Lambs), and reread it with some regularity. Its really too bad that this represents the peak of a writing career for a skilled author with immense potential who tragically sold out to the Hollywood scenario.
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