Crichton, Michael (1942—)
Published in 1969, The Andromeda Strain established Michael Crichton as a major best-selling novelist whose popularity was due as much to the timing and significance o...
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Michael Crichton (born 1942) is best known as a novelist of popular fiction whose stories explore the confrontation between traditional social and moral values and the demands of the new technological...
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Michael Crichton has had a number of successful careers--physician, teacher, film director, screenwriter--but he is perhaps best known for pioneering the "techno-thriller" with novels such as The Andr...
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Michael Crichton has been called a "megastar" who has made a resounding impression on the literary world. Critics applaud him as a writer who is entertaining to read and who can "elaborate a gripping ...
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Kael was a widely-read and respected film critic for The New Yorker until her retirement in 1991. In the following excerpt, she unfavorably reviews Looker, focusing on Crichton's "cold&#...
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In the following excerpt, Denby unfavorably reviews Looker.
Will Michael Crichton ever make a really good movie? Crichton, the author of The Andromeda Strain and other scientific-medical thrillers ...
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Telotte is an American critic and educator who frequently writes about film and film history: his works include Dreams of Darkness: Fantasy and the Films of Val Lewton (1985) and Voices in the Dark: T...
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"Critical" (Putnam, 452 pages, $25.95), by Robin Cook: Call him a crusader. Robin Cook writes his thrillers not so much to entertain, but, as he once said in an interview, to "alert the public to m...
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Today is Tuesday, Oct. 23, the 296th day of 2007. There are 69 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 23, 1707, the first Parliament of Great Britain, created by the Acts of Uni...
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Leadership: The new U.N. secretary general invokes a Twinkie defense, excusing Islamofascist genocide in Darfur by blaming it on global warming. Forget the Chinese weapons. According to Ban Ki-moon...
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Washington (dpa) - In a case that unfolded like a Michael Crichton
suspense novel, US health officials trying to corral a drug-resistant
strain of tuberculosis chased an inf...
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There are many guides for finding cheap apartments, but almost nothing on how to buy a mansion. For this reason, many of the superrich make poor choices in their housing. To alleviate this chronic ...
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Roger Straus, the late founder and longtime leader of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, regarded his company as a family and liked to boast that "We publish authors, not books."And what authors: Isaac B...
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Crichton, Michael (1942—)
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Critical Review by Pauline Kael
Robin Cook's latest medical thriller offers a fine epidemiological puzzle
