The news of Michael Crichton’s death came as a big shock to me. He is one of my favorite authors and someone who I waited for to release a new book. I can’t believe it, just 3 days back I was checking his site and was excited to find out about his latest book to be out on sale this December. Sadly we will not have any more books from him.
It was during my engineering days that Geo gave me ‘Airframe’, this was the book that made me fan of Crichton. After that I only had one aim, whatever he wrote either as Crichton or John Lange or Jeffery Hudson, I will read it. In just 2 years I was able to read The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Disclosure, Timeline, Rising Sun, Sphere, Eaters of the dead, Terminal Man, Binary, Great Train Robbery, A case in need, State of Fear, Prey and Next. Out of all his books, State of fear will remain my all time favorite. His work was so good that almost everything he wrote was made into movies. Most of the people who do not read much or watch movies still know about his famous work Jurassic Park and ER. He was my favorite for trivia question too, who has achieved #1 Book, #1 Movie and #1 Television series at the same time?
He is gone now, but his work will always remain with us.
