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Michael Crichton's the sort of writer whose books are novelization of future movies. He's also quite good at making hysteria seem rational. So it's a bit odd that his latest thriller, "State of Fear," is about irrational hysteria. The premise is that environmentalists are shrill, moved by a political agenda, and global warming isn't going to happen. The New Yorker snarks it up in their "Talk of the Town" column, noting:
What ???State of Fear?? demonstrates is how hard it is to construct a narrative that would actually justify current American policy. In this way, albeit unintentionally, Crichton has written a book that deserves to be taken seriously.Of course, I think it's worth noting how spectacularly UNprecient every single one of Cricton's books have been to date. So here's the official Wacky Neighbor guide to Michael Crichton's Predictions.
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Regarding "Lessons from Middlebrow Beach Reading", for someone who suddenly has a big problem with Cricton this contributor seems to have spent an inordinate time reading his works, or not, considering how far off the mark the obviously deliberately biased summaries of the works are. In fact given the obvious bias of the contributor I wonder why the anti-corporate overtones of Rising Sun weren't more prominently featured. This contributor seems like the type that believes "The Day After" and Michael Moore's works are actually documentaries.
