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 completely disagree (sorry, i'm a huge crichton fan) i think its amazing how in depth he goes into his subjects, because its a fun way to learn about topics that you'd otherwise probably not p...

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 no...

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?

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 cha...