Michael Crichton - State of Fear

[kerrywins]

Has anyone read it?
I assume noone here will like it since, I heard he bashes environmentalist in it?

[benddem]

1. he writes fiction

and doesn't know what he is talking about.

[texastoast]

9. Actually, he does some awesome research

And writes very technically and with a lot of facts and with a lot of knowledge in his subject matter.

However, even though this book contains lots of data, it reaches the wrong conclusions and highlights the fact that he does write fiction.

Many scientists have vested interests on both sides of the issue, and it is true that grant money is a big deal. Crichton picked the wrong side this time. The facts against his fiction are irrefutable.

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Sounds like someone suffering from Terry Goodkind syndrome.

They get a little bit successful and decide to write polemics instead of the kind of fiction that they became popular for.

Goodkind's books steadily went downhill in quality and by the time I read 5 book in his series it became obvious that I would get a more well-rounded picture from listening to Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity than his moronic viewpoint.

[sui generis]

3. I started reading it but I heard him interviewed about it

and I tossed it.

It was a weak story from the start, and he's just using manufactured controversy as a marketing gimmick to get people to read it and be outraged.

Very juvenile, and Crichton, the last book of yours that I will spend money on. There are too many good authors who write good fiction to waste time on another clunker by you.

[MsAnthropy]

4. He got in trouble once before for "Rising Sun"

some said it was blatantly racist against the Japanese. The controversy sells the books.

[kerrywins]

6. i read rising sun..

it was not racist...

[Tempest]

7. The real controversy about "Rising Sun"

Should have been the fact that it was a real piece of crap.

I stopped reading his books after suffering through that dog.

[Tempest]

5. Isn't he one of the "scientists" who signed the anti-global warming paper

I seem to recall his name was on it.

[Melynn]

8. Crichton = sellout

Crichton looks around and sees this is the Bush era and decides to get with the neo-con program. Oh well, he is the one who has to live with himself.

[Placebo]

10. Environmentalists CAUSE a disaster...

in order to mobilize the planet for fighting Global Warming, which isn't actually happening? Yea, okay. :eyes:

Poor freeper Crichton. I used to like him.

[wtmusic]

11. All about the scary, evil environmentalists

terrorizing the poor defenseless polluters!