[ SECRET POST #2996 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2996 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

15. http://i.imgur.com/m2i088r.png

[caerbannog]

*inapologetically loves them bad science and all*

I haven't read the book you reference at the end. Empire? Is it a similar writing style or something? I was always pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed all crichtons books. Especially as most are quite outside my usual preferences. I'm guessing something in the writing just appealed to me.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I mentioned Empire because it's more batshit than even the worst of Crichton: http://www.sfreviews.net/empire_osc.html

Re: OP

[caerbannog]

Ooohhhh. Batshit can be fun.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't read your secret carefully enough, I thought you were talking about the TV show Empire.

Writers are people too.

[(Anonymous)]

They can be just as bizarre as the next person. Only sometimes we get whole books of it from them because they get famous enough that their publishers will publish because people will buy.

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Image: cover of Michael Crichton’s Disclosure

Text: In a weird way, I’m actually grateful for this book. I used to read writers like Piers Anthony, and when they made me uncomfortable, I’d think I was just overreacting--if they were total weirdos, then why were they so popular? Disclosure taught me that sometimes big-name writers are just bonkers, and that really helped me when I read Empire by Orson Scott Card.

BS: As much hate as this gets, it’s still not as bad as Rising Sun.

[(Anonymous)]

I was a big Piers Anthony fan in my early teens. Then I started twigging to how bad the writing was and how creepy a lot of the subtext was. I still think he had some pretty interesting ideas for world-building sometimes (I liked stuff like the alien races of the Cluster series, or the Great Game of the Apprentice Adept books), but that doesn't nearly make up for the rest of it.

[blitzwing]

Why do people hate this book especially? If I'm thinking of the right one it was some kind of CD-ROM technology theft plot overlaid with a female-on-male sexual harassment plot. It wasn't great but it's not the worst Crichton I've read.