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Originally Posted by Elspode
Crichton was once a genius. His works post-Jurassic Park were not good. "Sphere" was a decent book and one of the worst films ever made, despite a great cast.
I've wonderful memories of Crichton's creations, starting with "The Andromeda Strain". His directorial effort of his own work, "The Great Train Robbery" starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Leslie Ann Down is still one of my favorite films.
But...Michael got lazy. As far as I was able to tell, he died of shame for what he was no longer able to produce.
That's very atypically unfair and disrespectful for me, and I apologize.
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I don't think he had anything to be ashamed of given his body of work.
Take a look at the list of his books
on wiki.
If it was a downward trend, then it was pretty short. I really like most of his stuff right up until State of Fear. I've read both State of Fear and Next. I thought both jumped around too much.
On the other hand, I really liked both Prey and Timeline which were the books just previous.
I really think it's more a case of no one hitting a home-run every time.