Posted on 01/30/2005 6:42:45 AM PST by ml/nj
Par for the course for the NY Times. For a silly book pushing the anti-American global warming mantra of fear, Ross Gelbspan's "Boiling Point", they had fellow traveler and environmental extremist Al Gore write the puffball review. For a book that challenges the conventional global warming "wisdom", they chose another greenie. Sounds balanced and objective to me...
I wish I could write as "bad" as Michael Crichton, who was laughing his way to the bank before many of us could walk.
Follows naturally because liberalism is a mental disorder.
BWAAAHHHAAAA!
Check this out-I did a random google of this guy Barcott, and I got this on the first hit:
"Having long flouted the new-source review law, many of the nation's biggest power companies were facing, in the last months of the 1990's, an expensive day of reckoning. E.P.A. investigators had caught them breaking the law. To make amends, the power companies were on the verge of signing agreements to clean up their plants, which would have delivered one of the greatest advances in clean air in the nation's history. Then George W. Bush took office, and everything changed."
LOL! Sorry, I think Ann Coulter is much more intellectually honest than this POS who writes for the New York Times. But, there was no surprise there, was there?
I liked the movie The Andromeda Strain and that was more than 30 years ago now.
And don't forget the ka-ching, ka-ching of ER. Isn't he the creator and producer of it?
LOL, the lamestream media has a problem with fiction that contains grains of truth.
However, they have no such problem with non-fiction documentaries like Michael Moore's that are complete fabrications.
They really do exist in a Bizarro World
It is amazing how timely the book is, tsunami, giant iceberg as such. And of course, the latest dire claim that the Earth will heat up 11 deg C.
Current events play right into his novel's theme.
On the other hand, the 'Authors Message' at the end of the book somewhat tempers the novel's message.
( do hypersonic cavitation generators actually exist?)
Great read.....Read this book!!!!
then give copies away to all your fence stradling middle of the road friends who actually believe the global warming myth.
In the screenplay version, Crichton should work in the Tsunami of 2004.
I highly recommend anyone with the book be sure to read Appendix I ( "Why Politicized Science is Dangerous") as a prologue to reading the novel. His presentation of the rise and fall of eugenics is excellent.
FMCDH(BITS)
" I wish I could write as "bad" as Michael Crichton, who was laughing his way to the bank before many of us could walk."
Here here! THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN, TERMINAL MAN, and TIMELINE are some of my favorites. The science is supportable, the storys keep one engaged, and Chriton's characteristic layering and stacking of the plotlines is very exciting.
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I totally agree!! He is one of my all time favorite writers!
His books are not great literature I'll agree, but they are very enjoyable and the fact that he always injects medical science, scientific theories and ideas, etc that are well documented into his books make them that much more engaging in my opinion.
I also loved Coma, Shere, Congo, and Eaters of the Dead(made into a movie called The 13th Warrior).
Many of the movies made from his books are trash but their are a notable few that I really enjoyed.
Btw, did anyone see Westworld with Yul Brynner from 1973? Yup, that was Michael Crichton too! :o)
It's pretty obvious that Mr. Barcott's religion has been insulted by Dr. Crichton's novel. I thought it was, like all Crichton novels, a great read.
The book is a fun read, although a bit preachy to the choir if you've already joined the "Global warming is a hoax to raise money" crowd. Crichton's mainstream audience however, may be quite shaken by this read. About time, they reviewed it...it's climbing up on the fiction charts as we all type.
Barcott has led a mucfh too sheltered life. Any SciFi fan knows that many novels have footnotes. Who wants to explain complex scientific theories or principles as part of the text of the story? It's call literature.
Sadly, we have all had such dreams.
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