Whether you're firing up your e-reader or lugging a tote full of books to the beach, the summer reading season is upon us. So if you're looking for some fun, escapist entertainment there are a bumper crop of titles awaiting you. From robot uprisings to mind-bending thrillers, even some peculiar pint-sized super heroes. Here are just a few popular picks for some hot summer reads.
Michael Crichton, who helped create the TV show "ER" and wrote the best-sellers "Jurassic Park," "The Andromeda Strain," "Sphere" and "Rising Sun," has died in Los Angeles, his public relations firm said in a news release.
Michael Crichton, the best-selling author and filmmaker and creator of the TV series "ER," died after battling cancer.
The author of Jurassic Park and the creator of TV's ER privately battled cancer, his family says
It was the Jurassic Park novelist's professional achievements that made him such an imposing figure
The family of Michael Crichton, the million-selling author of such historic and prehistoric science fantasies as "Jurassic Park," "Timeline" and "The Andromeda Strain," says the author has died in Los Angeles
In terms of space on bookshelves, designer Chip Kidd -- who created the book jackets for everyone from Cormac McCarthy to David Sedaris -- might have more cred than any living writer
These should be happy times for book publishers.
The administration's competence problem is already at the yadda, yadda, yadda stage. They were supposed to protect us from terrorist attack, they said Iraq would be a cakewalk, that we only needed 50,000 troops. They failed to plan for the occupation or Hurricane Katrina or the prescription drug plan. Yadda.
Amid the devastation of World War I, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau famously proclaimed, "War is far too important to be left to the generals."
When a journalist takes off for a computer industry conference, she expects to trade business cards and rack up contacts. She expects to hear gossip about deals, about why Microsoft isn't a presen...
When mega-author Michael Crichton writes, many trees fall. Alfred A. Knopf, the publisher of his latest novel, Airframe, has ordered up a massive two-million print run for starters. There's a $10 m...
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If you trekked with 86 million other Americans to Jurassic Park, the top-grossing movie of 1993, and now go to see Disclosure, the newest Michael Crichton novel-cum-film to hit the multiplex, you m...
Everybody and his uncle, not to mention the present writer's grandson, have been chattering frenziedly about Jurassic Park, the $100 million blockbuster now being rolled out by Universal Pictures. ...
You've finally done it. After years of lobbying, you're about to open your company's first Tokyo office. The bags are packed, and you're having a sayonara cocktail party with the neighbors. Suddenl...
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