Likes Sphere.

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…Where is he now? I would say he might be . . . I think he’d been overrated. I say this as someone who was totally inspired by Michael Crichton. The fact that he graduated from medical school, and then a year into his residency, left to do everything from directing movies like Coma to writing The Great Train Robbery, and then onward to Jurassic Park. But as a kind of influence on medical writing and on writing writ large, I think that his power is waning. His power is now . . . Well now, see, I’m switching from over to under . . . Now you’re sounding like underrated. Sphere is my favorite book of his. He was also a brilliant art collector. He bought a lot of Jasper Johns before other people . . . And I just realized, the critical way he’s underrated was in creating programs like ER, which showed how it really has become now that the medical procedural, just like the criminal procedural, is now a mainstay of television, and I think ER created that. And that was a brainchild of Michael Crichton. So yeah, I’ve reverted.…

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