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I was sad to hear that Michael Crichton died Tuesday from cancer. Crichton was the writer of some great books, including Jurassic Park and Sphere. Some of you might be laughing at the thought of me mourning the death of a writer, but I was a big fan of his books.

My senior year of High School I had to take one more English class and looked for the easiest class I could take that was the farthest thing from literature and english grammar and other such nonsense. I found "Reading for the College Bound". The irony is that I might have been the only one in that class that did actually go to college :) Anyway I had to read a lot of books, but they could be whatever I wanted. So I started with Jurassic Park, I think just because the movie was coming out. I was hooked! There was a ton of technical detail in all his books. If he referenced a device, he'd then describe it in great detail. His characters were always a team of experts from unrelated fields that were thrown together to solve a huge problem. I probably read 10 of his books. That's huge for me!