I disagree. I think his characters, especially in "The Lost World", "Jurassic Park" and even "Sphere" were cookie cutter. It's easy to relate to characters you've read about in hundreds of other novels.
i dont know how you can call characters like those in sphere and lost world cookie cutter... how often do you read about dinosaur hunters and teams who study accident sites?
Webby is right. His characters are structurally VERY similar.
Those are just the situations they're placed in. Think of boy bands and the way they follow a formula: The cute one, the bad boy, the innocent one, etc. That's what I mean by cookie cutter. His characters aren't very deep.
in sphere they were pretty deep... geologically speaking anyway
BAHAHAHA! i like how the food was different. whipped cream was something different. the cream won't whip under pressure. interesting.