I've been on a Michael Crichton kick:
Just read "Sphere" - never saw the movie - Great book.
I'm halfway through "Jurassic Park" now.

If you haven't read them, I highly recommend:

The Andromeda Strain
Eaters of the Dead (Beowulf made interesting and fun)
The Great Train Robbery
Congo (much better than the film)
Rising Sun

Last Crichton book I read was Next. I enjoyed it, all the way until the end.

I haven't read Next. I was very disappointed by State of Fear and Prey was just horrible. Prey started well, but about 3/4 of the way through it felt like he just got bored and wanted to find a quick ending.

Picked up "The Andromeda Strain" from Bargain Books on Saturday.

How is "The Lost World"?

Snuff-The guy who wrote fight club Chuck Palahniuk .

It's about a 600 person gang bang w/ an aging pornstart and from the perspective of #72, 137 and 600.


#72 believes he is the pornstars long lost son.


Yeah...it's ****ed up.

I'd recommend "Choke" by the same author.

Congo was a great book the movie sucked!

Just picked up Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon after finishing Brave New World.

IMNSHO, disappointing. I loved Jurassic Park, but Lost World didn't do much for me. Granted, I'm very jaded when it comes to Sci-Fi, so I may not be the best person to ask.

I'd suggest "Eaters of the Dead". It's a short read, but very well done.

The Andromeda Strain scared the crap out of me the first time I read it. Plausible "Real Life" can be much scarier than Stephen King, IMO.

It was a lot of fun. The way they changed the main character in the movie was criminal. That, and you knew it was going to be horrible when Ernie Hudson delivered the howler: "My name is Dougal Monroe. I'll be your Great White Hunter, though I happen to be black". As if we couldn't figure that out for ourselves. :shake:

The gorillas used paddles in the book and not in a sick way added to the story, that also was left out of the movie. I read the book and was looking forward to the movie, walked out shaking my head.

I'm reading "By The Light Of The Moon" by Dean Koontz at the moment, about half way through and it's pretty damn good so far. Kinda sci-fi, suspense

Its probably just me but i couldn't get into to reading Michael Crichton.

Seemed to commercial in his writing.

Done did read it.

I'm....a fan.....

I picked up The Tippng Point and Blink about a month ago to have something to read at the airport, and finished The Tipping Point within a couple of flights.... very good, very fast read. I really liked how in-depth he got on some of the issues... who knew you could learn so much from the differences between Sesame Street and Blue's Clues. I liked the part on smoking, too; kids don't smoke to be cool, they smoke because they're already cool. :)

Haven't had much time for Blink, but I'm about halfway through it. I'm a HUGE information gatherer. I will do everything I can to gather facts, learn about a process, and explain what I've done and what I'm thinking about doing next; all before even asking someone else. Hell, when I couldn't find the book at Barnes and Noble, I was ready to tell the guy "Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, who wrote the Tipping Point... I couldn't find it in Psychology and it wasn't with the Tipping Point in Business........"; and about two words into my information dump the guy was like "StFU, follow me." LMAO So, some of the things he talks about have been pretty enlightening.

Also, I'm not huge on marketing and advertising... I think it's interesting in terms of technology (getting the right information to the right people), but it's a classic prisoner's dillemma (everyone would be better off if no one advertised, but once one company does, they all have to). I've had a couple of marketing classes, but I was pretty surprised when I read about not just the importance of packaging, but how it actually changes the outcome of taste tests.