Yeah, Crichton's writing style is weird - he's said in interviews how he spends years researching a novel so it's technically correct. Even reading "Jurassic Park" or "The Lost World", you can see...
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.