Hey bookworms! Not sure how many of my viewers were Crichton fans, I know you guys are mostly here for the fantasy talk, but I'm hoping I can convince some of you to pick up some Mr. Crichton books with this video, as he was an author that was very inspiring and influential to me growing up as a teenager in the 1990's.

The one thing I really love about Crichton is that his books are lean compared to his contemporaries. He was able to tell a story without a lot of unnecessary bloat.

Ive never watched a 30+ minute review on KZfaq in its entirety. This was my first. Your genuine respect for books and Crichton is clearly visible in this video. You've earned yourself a new subscriber.

I just got into Michael Crichton last month and I already read Jurassic park, lost world, and the great train robbery. I’m going to read the sphere next and then the andromeda strain. I’m 100% hooked.

One of my favorite authors.

Fun fact - Crichton directed the original Westworld film which features the first ever use of computer-generated imagery in cinema - the android's POV.

Fantastic work! So glad you're spreading word about Crichton's work especially because he was so versatile and pretty much excelled at all genres.

Just read Jurassic park. Loved it. More of a sci fi guy so loved it. trying to get through some HG Wells, Verne, and clarke.

Now do Tom Clancy next! Red Storm Rising is eerily prescient considering current events. Rainbow Six is still my favourite Clancy book, and Without Remorse is likely his best work. Oh yeah, there’s the Jack Ryan series too :)

This is a very decent dossier of Crichton; I didn't know he worked on films, and television-especially ER TV show- I also didn't know he was a medical school graduate. I know this is a book review of Crichton, but it's also a prelude to his biography-something I would happily read.

Read so many Crichtons when I was younger, Timeline, Jurassic Park, and a lot of the others. Enjoyed them all, thanks for bringing them back to the forefront. The man was a visionary.

I remember how saddened and disappointed I felt when I heard of his death. He was an author that I always looked for in the 'new releases' section of the bookstore because I could count on him to not only tell me an entertaining story, but usually give me something interesting to think about. One of your best review videos to date (fantastic intro).

Aside from most non fiction, I'm interested in all types of books, from sci fi to mystery to historical fiction to thriller, and definitely want to read more Crichton

Crichton is my favorite author. He has been since i was ten. He was uncompromising in his methodology, impeccable in his form. His writing, even the dry science, was always comprehensible. And the core of the books, the spirit behind them, was always important. Appreciation for the natural world, respect for the power that scientific discovery gives us, the flawed perspectives of man. I would love to review every novel he wrote some day.

His novels have really inspired me a lot I liked the intro, good old Ian Malcom

I love Crichton, he’s my favorite author.

Adored his books. Loved how most of them were set in some far off place miles from mankind - jungle, tropical islands, bottom of the ocean

It's nice to see a video like this on Michael. He was the guy who got me into the arts or... Being creative. I since decided against becoming an author and I am now working on film music (which I credit Hans Zimmer for getting me into) but Crichton was the man who sparked my interest in pursuing a creative field!

I've read JP, Andromeda Strain and Congo. People need to know more about Crichton. Thanks for this.

Man, Michael Crichton was the first author to get a "favorite writer" moniker from me. I was in high school at the late 90s/early 00s and was devouring the sci-fi sections in my local libraries when I stumbled upon either "Andromeda Strain" or "Sphere" - whichever one was first it impressed me so much I promptly went through his whole available body of work, even though at the time the only books i was interested in were science fiction novels - I read The Great Train Robbery, Disclosure, everything, and loved every single one, with the possible exception of Eaters of the dead/13th warrior. Looking at the complete list of his books I noticed that Disclosure was the last one of his I read... well. I have some accrued credits in Audible, guess who's about to get herself some nostalgia, possibly followed by some never before read books... Thanks for reminding me about an author I used to love and sadly, forgot about.

I feel the exact same! I blew through Jurassic Park as my first real book and he was an incredible author. Going back for more now

Timeline is one of my all time favorite books… so good

I have already read Jurassic Park and the Lost World by Crichton long back. I have Timeline, Next and Prey in hardcover, after watching your videos finally started reading Timeline right away. Thanks again Mike

I have ordered Jurassic Park and The Lost World on Friday and they will be my first Michael Crichton books I ever read.

So happy to see that you like him as well man. And you should actually read Micro, it's mostly good and really does feel like classic Crichton for most of it at least, and the themes and subject matter is just so damn cool!

I only read a few Crighton books, many years back, but this has definitely made me want to rediscover him.

Great video. The only stuff by Crichton I've read has been Jurassic Park and Lost World, so this has provided a list of his other works with enough detail to leave me curious. Thanks my dude.

I love Crichton! He was the man who got me into science fiction when I read Sphere the first time. I’ll have to revisit him soon. Nowadays it is an accepted hypothesis that scientists might be able to clone mammoths in a different form than the fossils using DNA from their bones. I try to follow your channel when I’m not busy. I find it helpful. And insightful. Great work!

I remember searching the small bookstore by me one summer day for something good to read and pulling stuff off the shelf repeatedly and not finding anything of interest. Eventually, I came across this book with a t-rex skeleton on the cover by this guy I never heard of... flipped the book over, read the synopsis, and said sold. I devoured that book in a day. Obviously, the book was Jurassic Park. I have since read almost everything of his including the books he wrote under the name John Lange. I am so grateful to have experienced Jurassic Park before it became famous. When I found out about his passing away I got chocked up because I also didn't realize that he was fighting cancer. It felt like losing a friend even though I never knew him in person. Great author and a great video. Thanks!

My jurassic park book, bought new from barns and noble fell apart completely i read it so much. And then one year for Christmas i got a wonderful hard back copy of lost world with a map in the front !

This is still my favorite video you have created, Mike. The intro really sets a mood for his books and before this video I had never read anything by him. Now I have purchased a good amount of his books and he is on my way to becoming one of my favorite authors. Thank you for bringing his works to my life!

I remember reading Sphere in my freshman year of high school around 8 years ago, picking it up out of passive interest without knowing it was by “the Jurassic Park guy.” Holy shit it was an incredible read. Read Prey, JP, and Airframe right after, but got busy and haven’t read him since. I gotta pick up one of his early ones sometime soon.

Glad I found this video and your channel. Well, I've read everything Michael Crichton wrote, with the exception of Dragon Teeth. Until 2013 I've read 19/34 of his books. But in November 2018 as a way to commemorate 10 years since his death I decided to do a Michael Crichton project and read everything by him in chronological order, one book per month. All his novels including his 8 John Lange thrillers plus his 4 non fiction ones. In August 2021 this project will be completed with Dragon Teeth. So in other words I'm a Michael Crichton fan and I'm glad I found this channel through this video!

Did you read “Travels”. I’m not a non-fiction person, but MAN he had an adventurous life! The chapters on when he climbed Kilimanjaro...Wow! If you haven’t read this you should. Like I said, I don’t generally like reading non-fiction, but this was Fantastic! Sphere is still one of my favorite books! I don’t remember much about Congo. I can’t remember if I read Micro...I feel like I did, but if I did it must not have made much of an impact. I definitely liked his sci-fi/horror stuff better than the more “realistic” stuff like Disclosure and AirFrame. I miss authors like this! I miss Authors who write amazing stand-alone books. I love a lot of the series’s I have read, but it’s daunting a lot of the time to jump in with a new book knowing you are making a 3-14 book commitment! Lol!

The theory of the universe that Crichton put forward in Timeline to make time travel believable is one that I have ascribed to ever since and I cannot believe he thought of that over 20 years ago. He was such an intelligent person, I always could feel that in his works.

Rising Sun is kind of like a Clancy novel. There are a lot of cultural comparisons, especially involving Russia.

I haven't read any Michael Crichton books yet. I saw that you reviewed many of his books and that you hold him in high esteem. I already had Jurassic Park on my TBR (I've seen the movies, of course) but after whatching your video I've added a few more to my TBR. Thanks!

I started with Jurassic Park last year and from just that book, Crichton became one of my favorite writers. I've seen the movie countless times, and for the book to grip me the way it did and send me on such a wild ride was an amazing experience. I've since read Prey (amazing), Timeline (also very good) and Eaters of the Dead (fine but did not impress me). I have Sphere, State of Fear, The Lost World and The Terminal Man in my TBR pile rn and I can't wait to read those and add the rest of Crichton's works to my library.

What I loved about him the most was his ability to explain complex scientific ideas to the layman. I think a lot of people have some understanding about DNA editing from his books.

Read an interview with him back in early 2000's. He said that he loved doing the research, but always dreaded having to go write the book.

Love this video as I do all your videos. About to start the Andromeda Strain. Can’t wait :-)

Timeline was my first Michael Crichton novel. I loved it and I think it is one of his top 5 works.

Very excited to get into his work. Thanks for doing a video on it.

I’ve only read one book by him, and I was in like 6th grade then... and after merphies Jurassic park review, I’ve been thinking of adding him to my TBR, so I’m pretty excited for this!

Read and loved Eaters of the Dead and Prey back in the day and just recently got back on the Crichton train with JP and Sphere. I can't wait to read many more of his books now. Excellent video, by the way! I am now a subscriber.

Micheal Crichton is one of my favorite authors since i was a pre teen. No one talks about timeline enough, I've read all the Jurassic park books, congo,timeline.and others loved them all.

Crichton changed how I viewed books. I read Timeline in Seventh Grade and was my favorite book for a long time. Great Video

I thank Michael Crichton for helping me transition from teen/young adult books into more mature fiction. While I think I've outgrown most of his books and now mainly read the same fantasy series that you do, I still appreciate the books of his that I did read. Did you ever read The Great Train Robbery? It's one of his most underrated and also my favorite of his that I read. Edit: I reached the point in the video where you talk about The Great Train Robbery. It really was a true page-turner!

I think you should read Micro personally. Out of the books released after his death, Micro is one that stuck with me. Granted, I was younger then, but I still have vivid memories of passages from that book.

Hi there Mike. How are you doing? Well done and well said on your video. I grew up as a teenager in the 90s, and I loved reading his works. Thanks for reminding me about him, because I had forgotten all of the shows that he worked on. Watching ER was the highlight of my week, I was so into that show. I did go on to Audible and I pick up all the rest of his books. Maybe after I get done with my current series, I will take a dive into his works. Thanks again.

Absolutely one of my favorite authors.

7:01 So technically your right but John Belushi did do something similar years earlier. #1 Show (SNL) #1 Movie (Blues Brothers) #1 Album (Blues Brothers).

After this video I'm adding Mr.Crichton books to my reading list. 👏👏

About Clancy: I was stationed on a submarine when I read Hunt for Red October, everything was right on however his dialog was very flat. Every character sounded the same. He got better and so did the books. Big fan can't recommend them more. Lots of books published under his name that I haven't read so can't help there. Love your channel. Paul

Great video, Mike! I'd love to see more Crichton on your channel! He was, in my opinion, wrong on some issues (like climate change), but that shouldn't stop anyone from reading his books. Crichton was a brilliant storyteller and I love the diversity of his works. I don't need to agree with an author on every issue in order to enjoy their stories. Otherwise there'd be hardly anything to read. Arthur Conan Doyle, for example, is one of my favorite authors ever - and the man seriously believed in the existence of fairies! :D

What you said about authors writing series now rings so true. And it's not just a thing in fantasy. In thrillers series like Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp literally outlive their authors. Don't get me wrong I love series, but a guy like Chricton coming up with great original ideas again and again was something special.

I'll never forget The Andromeda Strain! Haven't seen Jurassic etc.

I didn’t realize he wrote so many books that I am familiar with because of his movies and TV Shows. I’ll add some of his books to my TBR for this year. I’ll probably start with Jurassic Park.

Great video as usually, I've read 3 Crichton books so far and look forward to read some more

This brought back so many good memories of my childhood. Eaters of the Dead and Congo were my favorites.

I loved Sphere! For whatever reason I wanted to horrify myself by reading it during a scuba diving trip.

Re: Your Tom Clancy comment. His character was Jack Ryan and the early books are quite good. He also was a landmark author in the technothriller genre with a military bent. Huge casts of characters, different international settings, espionage. The Hunt for Red October may be a good place to start.

Fav author as a young adult was R L Stine and Michael Crichton was and is my favourite since my first time reading his stuff during my teens in the 90s.

Will say, I had forgotten about the Congo until watching this video. Thanks for reminding me of what a great book that was.

The Lost World is such a great novel. I read a few chapters of Sphere at work but someone took the book and never returned it 😑. Dragon teeth is a great book so far, although it was completed by another author it still has Crichton's touch. Definitely one of the best! I watch as many interviews of his I can find.

Nice shirt!

I have the spanish edition of Lost World, and Rising Sun in English. I'm going to start with Rising Sun while I look for Jurassic Park. I hope I can find in my country his other works if I get hook

Haven't read his work. But, saw a few of the movies. Congo wasn't that good. But, since it had Bruce Campbell, can't hate it. Great intro btw.

Thanks for the review of Michael Crichton, he was pretty much my first author that I read a book from and that book would have been Jurassic Park. At school we had to do a AR test on books that we had read and I thought I could skip the book and remember the movie That's before I realized that the movies are always never the same as the book. When I got to go retake my AR test I actually read the book and enjoyed the book a lot more than the movie. So far I have read The Lost world pirates latitude and dragon teeth

So I love sci-fi, whether it be Star Wars, Star Trek, Ender's Game, Timeline, and many more, I enjoy the stories and the technologies represented in them. Please give Micro a read because it is worth it. I will say there are parts that you can tell weren't plot ideas from Crichton but they only slightly diminish the over all story. What I mainly love about Crichton's techo-thrillers is the technologies and how they are explained and explored enough for the story. My Crichton list would have to be favorite to least favorite: Timeline, Prey, Jurassic Park, Micro, Andromeda Strain, Sphere, State of Fear, Lost World, Congo, Terminal Man, Next.

Well I guess I've got a few books to add to my TBR list. I've read a few of his books over the years, but never really thought too hard about who wrote them, so this has been an eye opener. I had no idea that he had such a string of hits. It's a shame we lost this guy, I wonder what he'd be writing today?

Thanks for the great video. I've only read Jurassic Park and seen the few films of his works. Boy do I need to rectify this mistake.

Crichton is right up there with King as my favorite authors. I always liked how even though most of his stories were science fiction-based, he still used a lot of objectivity in his material which was really cool. He always gave a scientific-type approach that made the impossible seem very much possible.

I’m a little late to the comments, but are you going to cover the books Crichton wrote under the pseudonyms John Lange and Jeffrey Hudson? The Lange books are interesting time capsules and "A Case of Need" under the Jeffrey Hudson name is actually quite good. These books a cool glimpse into Crichton's growth as a writer. I’d love to hear your thoughts. Back in the day, the Lange books were very hard to find, but with Amazon, they are readily available.

Recently read TIMELINE. I was skeptical going in, and I didn’t understand a lot of the physics explanations. I’d be interested in a longer discussion about this one. I thought it was great.

I think Jurassic Park is nearly A perfect book. he first gives you small hints of what you kind of think is going on. Then he takes your thoughts and makes it reality then he takes your reality and his rules he set and puts them on its head, and you can't let go. I just love his writing style so much it's so different then a lot of the books I've read. Also, I Love ER sad he couldn't write more books before he died fantastic Author and one of my favorites of all time.

Hey mike. Love your reviews. Just wanted to clarify-Gabaldon’s outlander came out in 1991 while Crichton’s was 1999 :)

I only read 2 of his books timeline and sphere and I LOVED them! You got me wanting to read more

I miss him so much 🥺

Me. *Has a 200+ fiction TBR.* Mike. "Why you should read a bunch more!" :P But hey, not complaining. I clicked the video out of my free will ;)

I've read a couple of books, sometimes at the end of the century.So I could put a few books on the 2021 list.

I love his books! Jurassic Park, State of fear, Prey and Next are my favorites.❤

Never read a Crichton novel but have seen some of the adaptations and 2 stand out there and i actually watch regularly still and those are Jurassic Park and the 13th warrior

Look at that, wasn’t expecting to hear about Horizon Zero Dawn in one of your videos. Love that game, have finished it like 7 times and Forbidden West I’ve finished like 5 times

I'm sold, great video, you got me onto reading Stephen King (just finished The Stand. 10/10) so I'm gonna have to get some Crichton books.

Love Crichton, but you should definitely read Clancy. Some of its now 40 year old historical fiction, but its the father of an entire genre of techno-military-intelligence thriller. If you've read Larry Bond work, its the better version of that.

I have read many of his books and enjoyed most of them. I remember renting The 13th Warrior when it first came out and loved it and noticed he wrote it. I quickly ordered The Eaters of the Dead but I found it a little disappointing with the cliff notes. I realize it was a take on Beowulf but it fell short for me.

You should check out Douglas E. Richards. He's my modern day Chrichton.

I haven't read much of him, but I loved Jurassic Park and Timeline. "Quantom phone makes me roam."

I haven't read all of his books but the ones I have read I've really enjoyed. My favs are probably the Jurassic Park books because of nostalgia reasons. Some of my other favorites are timeline, next, and prey. Horizon Zero Dawn was a great game to me.

Very well done!! 👍🏼

Like you, Crichton was the author of my teens. However I stopped reading his works. At this time I currently have read half of his works. I’m now reading his remaining works and it’s great. Takes me back to my younger days. Thanks for the video. My top five: Jurassic Park, The Great Train Robbery, Eaters of the Dead, Congo and Sphere.

Crichton is my favourite author!!! I've read almost all his books - I'm trying to track down the ones he wrote under a pen name now.

Read Jurassic Park and was hooked. Im the biggest JP fan. I could go on about Mr.Crichton forever, but you pretty much addressed everything. Have you read Preston and Child? They had a movie out called The Relic. It is a first story on an Agent Pendergast series. Im on the 3rd book which are set on a gothic natural history museum backdrop. Also a series known as the Gideon Crew series they are 5 book techno adventure series. A defiant recommendation of book.

hi, started chriton becuase of your recommendation , started with spher .(incredible) and prey is next on my tbr

He’s always been by FAv number one author for me personally:) that’s not to say I don’t like other authors but he’s my personal all time fav, if people ask me who my fav author is I’ve always said crichton :) other writers I like are stephen king, Ray Bradbury, Frank Herbert Etc but Crichton is my no 1 fav ever! Always has been :) not a bad desicion? Hey

Crichton is such an important writer for me He's the one responsible for the eventual creation of my favorite movie, Jurassic Park, which then lead me to discovering that it was based on a novel And that was the first novel I'd ever read, at the simple age of 8 Did I understand any of the concepts? Mostly not But the book certainly scared the living shit out of me, I wasn't expecting it to be such a gore-fest

That Metallics shirt is awesome, where can I buy it?

I wanna go back to Crichton’ s thoughts/excerpts of his thoughts about extinction there 33:44 especially for THE guy who wrote the definitive sci-fi book on dinosaurs. Their extinction was most certainly an environmental event that was not of their making as a species. It’s humans that keep flouting the natural order of things and being the exception to the rule that breaks things as humankind thinking itself to be exceptional rather than seeking harmony with the natural world and itself. In fact, I would argue that as much as the earth will “survive” humans, what does that even mean? Survive as a planet orbiting the sun but no longer hospitable to life or able to support life like the atmosphere that was depleted on Mars? I’m sure Crichton expounds. His observation however on not having knowledge and on not thinking is all too prescient.

Tom Clancy wrote Jack Ryan; John Grisham was the Lawyer books... Crichton is what got me into reading, but you should read Micro, it has a little of Prey book and sorta like Innerspace movie with David Quaid, I thought was a great book; but could be like the book next and having a lot of his ideas etc already done