Howdy Folks!
I’m on vacation this week! No classes, yay! This of course, does not mean that I do not have homework, though. I still have to read and study. For one of my classes I have to read “Traumnovelle” or “Dream Story” by Arthur Schnitzler, the book that “Eyes Wide Shut” was based off of. Unfortunately, that means that some publisher guy thought that putting a still from the movie onto the cover of the book would be a cool thing to do. You know, connect with the youth. Idiot. Now I have a creepy picture of Tom Cruise fondling some poor woman on the cover of my book.
I however, have taken it in stride, will finish reading the book in a timely manner and progress onto the book I actually want to read, another Garcia Marquez book – “Love in the Time of Cholera”! This of course following me having finished Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear”. All I have to say about that book is: Michael Crichton, you sir, were a cynical bastard of a man with no real understanding of what you were saying. It was basically his usual book, except that the terrorists trying to destroy part of the world were environmentalists, who knew absolutely nothing about the truth. Each character had zero knowledge, and this was proven to them by the cynical and talented Mr. Kenner, who aside from being a genius, was also excellent at fighting, shooting, debate, hacking, doing things and being a jack-ass. He would engage in debates with everyone who had any convictions about doing things in an environmentally fashion, and systematically proved (Michael Crichton even supplied sources) why they were wrong, why their information was wrong (if they had any sources) and why they weren’t real environmentalists. Of course, the only people he talked to were filthy rich celebrities, who had three houses and were convinced that nothing ever changed. Mr. Kenner, and thereby Mr. Crichton, completely missed the point of environmentalism and also the irony that he discredited all the sources of his opponents, or claimed that not all sources could be trusted, yet his were bullet-proof. Mr. Crichton even added his own comments to the back of the book, things he had learned, such as: We have no idea how to maintain forests. We don’t really know that global warming will happen. In the future, we will use a lot more energy and there’s nothing we can do about.
Well, if you don’t believe, or like my unfounded layman’s opinion about the book, here is a real scientist saying, well, that Michael Crichton was a lying idiot. Oh, oh, oh! Here he’s saying it again, but this time, he’s saying exactly what Crichton did wrong, and why he should have researched better! He even gives the sources that Crichton should have read.
This post is brought to you by science. And good research. Now don’t ever support any of Michael Crichton’s work again, that hack.
P.S. The weigh-room is closed this week, because it’s a holiday, so I’m going to go let my frustration at Michael Crichton’s ineptitude out on a stack of pancakes.
