Best Selling Author Michael Crichton Dies

mcrichtonDied.jpgMichael Crichton, the 66-year-old best selling author of "Jurassic Park," "The Andromeda Strain," "Sphere," and "Rising Sun" has died. According to CNN, Crichton died on Tuesday in Los Angeles after a courageous battle with cancer. In addition to his best selling books, Crichton Crichton won several awards for "ER", the TV series he created with Steven Spielberg including an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Writers Guild of America Award. A private funeral service is expected.

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Or was his death part of an environmentalist conspiracy. DUN DUN DUNNN! What an asshole.

I used to love his work, then he turned into a war mongering wonk. RIP wing-nut.

His piece "Kilimanjaro" about climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in his book Travels was one of the best travel pieces I've ever read. Despite his politics--which I disagreed with, but which he researched and believe in sincerely--I thought he was a wonderful writer and I'll miss him.

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