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Michael Crichton
John Michael Crichton, M.D. was an immensely popular American author, medical doctor, and film and television producer. During his lifetime, he sold over 150 million copies of his books worldwide. Crichton died on November 4, 2008 of... [more]
John Michael Crichton, M.D. was an immensely popular American author, medical doctor, and film and television producer. During his lifetime, he sold over 150 million copies of his books worldwide. Crichton died on November 4, 2008 of cancer.
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Last year, when the best-selling novelist Michael Crichton died, he left behind a completed novel. It's set in the mid-17th century Caribbean. And it's about pirates. Alan Cheuse reviews the Michael Crichton novel Pirate Latitudes.
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Plunderheads Michael Crichton in 1999 NYT Michael Crichton's last novel, the tale of a stupid but lucky pirate, was discovered on his hard drive after his death.
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Pirate Latitudes By Michael Crichton (Harper; 312 pages; $27.99) When Michael Crichton died of cancer in 2008, he left in his files a complete manuscript, now published as "Pirate Latitudes." Posthumous publications are a notoriously dicey proposition, even...
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Pirate Latitudes reminds you more of Eaters of the Dead or Timeline (minus the time travel aspect) than Michael Crichton’s more famous books like Jurassic Park, Prey. Like many historical novels starring pirates, it is a bit cheesy in pieces.Port Royal, the lonesome British colony in the Caribbean seas, is surrounded by the Spanish waters. The undeclared (and unacknowledged) war on the Spanish empire is carried out by the privateers, who find...
From desicritics.org
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- Pirate Latitudes (bookgasm.com)
- Review | 'Pirate Latitudes': Yo ho ho and a bottle of dumb (miamiherald.com)
Hoist the Jolly Roger above the best-seller list, ye mateys, ’cause Michael Crichton has just published a swashbuckling pirate thriller.
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From kansascity.com
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The first of two books to be published posthumously, Pirate Latitudes was found as a complete manuscript after Michael Crichton’s death in November 2008. Set in the volatile colonial Caribbean in 1665, it details British privateer…
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From list.co.uk
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Environmentalism as religion:
Gene patenting — fascinating:
HIs comments at 50 minutes regarding Western societies and science are fascinating.
Charlie Rose was being tutored and quickly changed the subject often.
We miss the curious mind of Michael Crichton.
UPDATE:
Good roundup on ClimateGate here.
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Know this, if you dive into “Pirate Latitudes,’’ Michael Crichton’s 17th-century high seas adventure: The Englishmen who plunder Spanish treasure ships here are not pirates. They are “privateers,’’ patriots fighting to loosen Spain’s hold on the Caribbean trade. And while these sailors do keep much of the booty for themselves, they also assume all the risk. As one buccaneer frames ...
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If you're an author, be careful what you leave lying around. In the event of your death, anything might make it to print. For Vladimir Nabokov, it was a pile of index cards, now published as "The Original of Laura"...
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When it comes to popular entertainment, the late Michael Crichton was about as successful as any writer could hope to be. His 15 novels and four nonfiction works have sold a staggering 150 million copies worldwide.
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From denverpost.com
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When Michael Crichton died suddenly of cancer last year, his publisher and agent had no idea that he'd finished another novel, an old-fashioned adventure tale about pirates in 17th-century Jamaica. "Pirate Latitudes," due out Tuesday, seems at first ...
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From search.live.com
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The jacket copy for "Pirate Latitudes" states ambiguously that this book was "discovered as a complete manuscript in his files" after its author, Michael Crichton, died last year. Crichton was well-known for putting his medical training (as the creator of the television series "ER") and deep interes...
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- 'Pirate Latitudes' a fitting finale from Crichton (search.msn.com)
IPBiz heard a story that a Congressional staffer relied on comments from Michael Crichton in evaluating patentability in the area of genes.See alsoOn Crichton
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... a few hours later you both calm down and fall asleep watching Wesely Snipes and Sean Connery in Michael Crichton’s classic, ”The Rising Sun” – which has a great auto-erotic asphyxiation sex scene). 16. The Shopaholic. That’s where ...
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