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For me, Crichton went off the rails with Rising Sun and Disclosure, which are mainly driven by animus against Japanese business practices and women filing sexua
by ProjectArcturis 4y ago
For me, Crichton went off the rails with Rising Sun and Disclosure, which are mainly driven by animus against Japanese business practices and women filing sexual harassment claims. Like, if you were a rich white guy in the early 90s, those were two things that right-leaning media outlets would have you worry about. Crichton by that point had lost the imaginative independent thinking that drove his early work, and basically ate up and regurgitated the media panic of the day into two novels that have aged incredibly poorly.
- ghaff 4y agoLatterly, Crichton’s books started to read more like screenplay treatments than novels—which they sort of were. Rising Sun though I think you have to see through the lens of the time.
- V_Terranova_Jr 4y agoCounterpoint: Crichton's Airframe is a great book that illustrates how journalists reporting on complex subjects they don't understand can cause great harm regardless of their intent or convictions.
- ProjectArcturis 4y agoI didn't read Airframe. I did read Timeline (1999), in which a shady corporation invents time travel. It plans to use this awesome power to, um, create an ultra-realistic Medieval theme park.
- apple4ever 4y agoI thought they were both great books and movies. I don't get into the reasons behind them, they were good stories.