During one of my hops through AMS on the conference run at the end of last year, I had a couple of hours to kill and picked up a copy of Michael Crichton's "Prey". I loved the story, having recently become a father and very recently just been in/around Silicon Valley. I even got Juliette to read it, and now she's gone Crichton mad.
Currently, I'm reading his book "Eaters of the Dead", which purports to be a translation of a story written by an Arabian scholar who gets caught up in an adventure with a group of Viking warriors. It's a well written story, and I'm enjoying it a great deal.
I find it amusing that the US book cover (pictured right) has to have a block-buster-sounding "The 13th Warrior" as a catch-phrase.
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It's catch-phrased because 13th Warrior is the movie adaptation of the book. It's not the greatest adaptation (the Andromeda Strain was probably the best adaptation of any of his books, seconded perhaps by The Terminal Man), but it's still fun. Especially if you have it in you to enjoy Antonio Banderas.
And yes, I'm a Crichton freak too. Read Sphere (that's perhaps the worst of the movies and a pretty good book).
I'll second what George said - the reason why they chose 13th warrior was because it was felt (probably by the fcc) that "Eaters of the Dead" was too graphic and upsetting. <br /><br />I prefer Airframe, and i can't wait till that's made into a film. Prey is a great story, as is Timeline (the film totally sucks though).
I should have known that it was a film title. Maybe we will rent a copy, although I'm a bit sceptical of Hamtonio Banderas ;)
We thought that Timeline was the the worst film so far. I've seen Sphere but not read it--judging by how bad the film was, I'd say the book must be pretty good. (using some bizarre inverted logic here).
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