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Post by Kahlessa on Nov 12, 2008 7:06:40 GMT -5
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Post by Kahlessa on Nov 16, 2008 11:02:06 GMT -5
Some more sad news. One of our members, Lucidity, hasn't posted in several months, nor have I received an email from her. I called her on her cellphone Wednesday Nov. 5 after I heard the terrible news. She called me back later that evening. We only talked for a few minutes because Lucidity is very ill herself. She was diagnosed with cancer in August and has been in and out of the hospital ever since. She wanted me to let people know why she hasn't been posting or replying to emails for so long. She was shocked and upset to hear of Michael Crichton's untimely death, as we all were. I told her I will keep her in my thoughts and prayers.
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Post by Kahlessa on Nov 16, 2008 11:03:49 GMT -5
The next time I worked at the bookstore after hearing the news, I put up a memorial display to Michael Crichton. It's standard procedure to put up a display when an author dies. The manager on duty let me put it up, but she told me to make it my last task of the day. Putting up the display didn't take long. It was an endcap with two shelves and a sign that read "A Lifetime Remembered". I got to select the Crichton books I wanted to use. The manager was right to make me wait until the end of my shift. When I finished putting up the display, I had tears running down my face.
A couple of weeks later, I noticed that someone had placed a few copies of A Case of Need, a book Crichton wrote under the pseudonym Jeffery Hudson, on the display. I remember reading how that novel was republished without Crichton’s approval, and I thought, “He wouldn’t like that”. So I removed A Case of Need from the display and replaced it with Airframe, one of my favorites.
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Post by palspar on Nov 18, 2008 7:42:08 GMT -5
It was one of the saddest news I read in the norwegian papers in the beginning of last week  I didn't find the entrance and the login data to your site until today, therefore I couldn't post my reply to the forum before now. Since I read the first book written by him, The Andromeda strain, I was hooked. I never looked back. Michael Crichton was my type of author, besides the pure crime and the spy stories authors. And since I become aware of his website with his speeches and all the other stuff, I've used and quoted many of his arguments in various blogging sites I attend to here in Norway, especially when it comes to environmental issues. I truly believe there'll be only one of Michael Crichtons caliber of author born every century, who has the abilty to mix the nearly "s/f" genre to both suspension/crime genre and genuine science/academia and get it to work, and above all, make it sell to so many people worldwide. And that is a true gift! May his soul rest in peace. And may his free spirit roam the Universe! |
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Post by Kahlessa on Nov 20, 2008 18:06:55 GMT -5
It was one of the saddest news I read in the norwegian papers in the beginning of last week I didn't find the entrance and the login data to your site until today, therefore I couldn't post my reply to the forum before now. Since I read the first book written by him, The Andromeda strain, I was hooked. I never looked back. Michael Crichton was my type of author, besides the pure crime and the spy stories authors. And since I become aware of his website with his speeches and all the other stuff, I've used and quoted many of his arguments in various blogging sites I attend to here in Norway, especially when it comes to environmental issues. I truly believe there'll be only one of Michael Crichtons caliber of author born every century, who has the abilty to mix the nearly "s/f" genre to both suspension/crime genre and genuine science/academia and get it to work, and above all, make it sell to so many people worldwide. And that is a true gift! May his soul rest in peace. And may his free spirit roam the Universe! Thank you, palspar, for posting such a beautiful tribute. It's good to hear from you, even under such sad circumstances. |
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Post by Kahlessa on Dec 3, 2008 14:47:22 GMT -5
Here’s something that brought a lump to my throat. On Amazon, there’s a short interview with Michael Crichton: Michael Crichton – Significant Seven(scroll down) Here are two of Michael’s answers: Amazon: If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?Michael Crichton: I don't want an epitaph. If forced, I would say "Why Are You Here? Go Live Your Life." Amazon: Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?Michael Crichton: Benjamin FranklinI like to think that Michael Crichton and Benjamin Franklin are having a high old time right now.  |
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Post by Kahlessa on Dec 17, 2008 10:27:48 GMT -5
Where were you when you heard the news? People of my parents’ generation remember where they were when they heard that John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. The younger generation remembers where they were when they heard that John Lennon had been killed.
And now Michael Crichton is gone. I don’t expect a lot of people will clearly remember where they were or what they were doing when they heard the news. But some of us will never forget it.
I had just come home after a hectic day working at the bookstore. This was Wednesday, November 5, the day after Barack Obama had been elected President. We sold out of all our newspapers within ten minutes. Then we spend a good part of the day answering the phone and telling people we didn’t have any more newspapers. I had only recently gotten back to work after having surgery on my elbow in October.
By the time I finished my shift at 5 p.m., I was not feeling well. I drove home thinking about whether I should get someone to cover my shift the next day so I could rest. When I got home, it was 5:30 and the CBS Nightly News was starting. I was in the kitchen when Katie Couric was giving the preview of the evening news. She said Michael Crichton had died, and then went on to the top news of the day. I couldn’t believe it. I thought “She must have gotten something mixed up.” I got a blank tape and put it in the VCR. Later in the show, there was a segment telling how Michael Crichton had died of cancer the previous day, Tuesday morning. I was so stunned, I couldn’t even think. I just couldn’t absorb it. I had something to eat and took some Ibuprofen. I called a friend of mine who works at the bookstore with me. She wasn’t there that day but I had called her earlier from work. She had heard that Michael Crichton had died, but she didn’t tell me because she thought it would be best if I was home before I heard the news. I didn’t cry until the next day.
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Post by Lukaran on Dec 29, 2008 10:11:46 GMT -5
I was driving, listening to NPR on the radio when I heard the news. I was on my way to lunch and I didn't have much of an appetite after that.
We've lost so many good people this year: Tim Russert, Paul Newman, George Carlin and too many others.
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Post by Kahlessa on Dec 31, 2008 23:25:35 GMT -5
Good-bye 2008... A good many things have happened this year, both in the world and in my life. But I'll always think of 2008 as the year we lost Michael Crichton.  Happy New Year to all. |
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Post by Kahlessa on Jan 20, 2009 8:54:06 GMT -5
Here's a wonderful tribute from a student of Michael Crichton's: In Memoriam: Michael Crichton I've been a fan of Michael Crichton for a unique reason - I was one of about 10 students who took a writing seminar he taught at MIT in Spring, 1988. I think the class was named "The Art of Revision"...
www.johnpiscitello.com/2008/11/in-memoriam-michael-crichton.html |
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Post by Kahlessa on Jan 22, 2009 7:34:05 GMT -5
Stephen King Tribute to Michael Crichton
In the 2008 Year-End Special issue of Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King wrote this about Michael Crichton:
As a pop novelist, he was divine. A Crichton book was a headlong experience driven by a man who was both a natural storyteller and fiendishly clever when it came to verisimilitude; he made you believe that cloning dinosaurs wasn’t just over the horizon but possible tomorrow. Maybe today.
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Post by Kahlessa on Feb 1, 2009 13:52:08 GMT -5
Here's a tribute from MacWorld. Michael Crichton said on several occasions that he was a Mac user. The tribute was written by someone who exchanged emails with Michael: Remembering Michael Crichtonby Rob Griffiths, Macworld.com Nov 5, 2008 I was deeply saddened to read of the passing of Michael Crichton, at the way-too-young age of 66. Michael was an amazingly talented individual, as evidenced by his background—a Harvard-educated medical doctor who wrote The Andromeda Strain while still in medical school, and then wrote (and directed the movie version of) The Great Train Robbery...www.macworld.com/article/136585/2008/11/crichton.html |
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Post by omg on Feb 27, 2009 21:58:20 GMT -5
It was that day that I made up my mind that I would really like to meet or write to Michael Crichton that he died.
I just finished reading the book "Prey" that he wrote, and I was stunned. Stunned.It's such a shame that such a talented person would die at 66. He was a Leonardo Da Vinci. May he rest in peace.
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Post by Kahlessa on Mar 8, 2009 14:59:03 GMT -5
It was that day that I made up my mind that I would really like to meet or write to Michael Crichton that he died. I just finished reading the book "Prey" that he wrote, and I was stunned. Stunned.It's such a shame that such a talented person would die at 66. He was a Leonardo Da Vinci. May he rest in peace. Thank you so much for sharing that with us. I wrote three letters to Michael Crichton. After the first letter, he sent me a gracious note and an autographed photo. I didn't expect a response to the other letters as he was a very busy man. You can read the letters I wrote on my blog Musings on Michael Crichton: www.musingsonmichaelcrichton.com/ |
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Post by Kahlessa on Mar 31, 2009 11:30:12 GMT -5
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I didn't find the entrance and the login data to your site until today, therefore I couldn't post my reply to the forum before now.
