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...done, and The Horse Whisperer has climbed the best-seller lists, alongside Michael Crichton and Sidney Sheldon. It's something of a vindication for Evans, since most reviewers made their own pitchfork fondue out of his prose. ("Sentimentally bloated, and wholly devoid of authentic feeling," said the New York Times.) The similarity to another huge-selling novel about a mid-life romance caused some wags to dub it The Horses of Madison County. Evans is rankled by the comparisons to Robert James Waller's best seller. "Both books are about middle-aged people who fall in love...
...more pennies for his pages. Though not matching the sums paid for recent works by hot novelists like Michael Crichton and John Grisham, Evans got a bigger publishing advance--and more money from Hollywood--than any other first novelist in history. "It's probably good that, once in a while, someone proves the brass ring can be snatched," says Michael Korda, editor in chief at Simon & Schuster. "Otherwise, it's like a casino where none of the slot machines ever...
...HAVE BEEN READING BOOKS BY MIchael Crichton [SHOW BUSINESS, Sept. 25] since encountering the first paperback edition of The Andromeda Strain in high school. I have never read Crichton for his characters, and his occasional lack of interest in them is not necessarily a shortcoming. I read Crichton because he is my most reliable guide to areas of cutting-edge technology, foreign culture and intrigue in corporations and courts of law. To acquire this degree of diversity while writing to entertain and inform the general public is a magnificent achievement. DAVID J. SCHOW Los Angeles...
...MICHAEL CRICHTON BRINGS EVERYTHING together: science fiction, detail, cutting-edge technology and tremendous imagination. Time did an excellent job of presenting the literary qualities that make his books so enjoyable. But I am disappointed that Sphere was not mentioned. It packs in all that I enjoy, and in my opinion it is his best work. MATTHEW SKILLING Macon, Georgia aol: Vince12...
...Lost World, Michael Crichton's sequel to Jurassic Park, a group of scientists travel to a remote island to investigate reports that live dinosaurs are once again running loose. In this excerpt, mathematician Ian Malcolm (a leftover from Jurassic Park) and animal behaviorist Sarah Harding face the consequences when two tyrannosaurs drop by their trailer-laboratory to reclaim an injured baby dinosaur that the scientists have been nursing...