News of the weird authors

[rivkat]

When we work out our issues in fiction, it's called amateur. What is it when Michael Crichton does it? (Warning: Fictional abuse of a child; also real abuse of language and decency.)

Comments

[eisoj5]

Really really icky. When did he become so insane?

[in-interval.livejournal.com]

Absolutely appalling. I can't imagine what he hopes to achieve other than the disgust of rational people.

[veejane.livejournal.com]

I believe that is called masturbation.

(The villain of Galaxy Quest is named Sarris, after Andrew Sarris the film critic, but, that's kind of funny considering that half of the character Sarris's job is to sneer at the TV episodes the Lobster Thermidorians take so seriously.)

(I can't for the life of me remember what those aliens are really called, but it's something like "Lobster Thermidorians.")

[nestra.livejournal.com]

Thermians.

[postcardsfrom.livejournal.com]

That's really pathetic. Makes you long for the return of the duel.

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

good god, that was published?

[kaseido.livejournal.com]

I was recently wondering what he might be doing for an encore.

Now I know.

Despicable -

repost for fail at changing metaphors in midstream

[brownbetty]

I thought O.S.C.'s latest was whacked, but this takes the cake and masturbates with the frosting.

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

Under UK law, that might qualify very well for a libel suit despite the categorisation as "fiction". If the book gets published in the UK unchanged, the results might be entertaining.

[davidhearne.livejournal.com]

August Strindberg used to say to his enemies, "Watch it, you bastard, or we'll meet again in my next play." If Michael Crichton threw a similar threat at me, I could say "So you'll be attacking me with feather-dusters?"

Crichton's attempt at literary revenge manages to be both overblown and lame. In other words, it's what you would expect from a hack. He wants the reader to admire his bravery, but the reader only wants to know why he wants us to imagine a man's genitalia in that way.

[justabi.livejournal.com]

Well, damn. I thought it was bad that he couldn't end a book to save his life.