Travels

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Summary: If you like Crichton, do NOT read this book.
Review: In this series of autobiographical essays, Crichton comes off as self-absorbed, selfish, emotionally immature and alarmingly credulous about paranormal phenomena. If you enjoy Crichton, give this book a wide berth; it will reveal your hero's feet of clay

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Summary: incredible journeys of the body and of the mind
Review: This book chronicles Michael Crichton's travels in the most remote regions of the world and of the mind. He swims with sharks, climbs a mountain, and spends time with psychics. In his book, he is constantly exploring his limitations, searching for evidence of the spiritual world and greater understanding of the physical world. Travels motivates us to always look beyond our visible boundaries; to explore things we don't understand; to seek out things that are unfamiliar, strange, and challenging in order to get a better idea of ourselves. Crichton believes that we should explore every little corner of the world before we come to a conclusion about the world as a whole. I think it's a great book.

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Summary: Worth Reading
Review: Travelling is one significant thing that make Michael become successful. Since I had read this book, I no longer wonder in his achievement. Michael frankly wrote a lot of his useful opinions in the book. I consider them as readers' lucky.

It is another worth reading!

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Summary: Compelling and Page-turning
Review: I found "Travels" to be a very compelling story of Micheal Crichton's life. It was interesting to read about his struggles, and his lifetime-goals trying to be accomplished. I think "Travels" brings out the true fact of an average american discovering the world, and what the person is bound to find out. I think this book is one of Crichton's best! READ IT TODAY!

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Summary: An incredible book. Sitmulating
Review: It is one of my favorite book. The whole deal of searching for anwsers in this book is present. The author does not gives us an insigt of his book the only thing that he does is express the things that happened in his travels and search the meaning of it. It is a great book speacially for a person who is searching for meaning in this messed up life.

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Summary: insightful
Review: I'm not going to rehash what has already been said. I just want to say that I thought he was a little hard on Richard Feynman (Nobel prize-winning physicist). When he says that Feynman had not interest in philosophy or art I felt he was off base. If you read about Feynman you will get his view on life even if it is not presented as a philsophy per se. As for the lack of interest in art, the man drummed to ballet. Not my cup of tea, but it is art.

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Summary: Interesting and informative
Review: I found "Travels" to be an excellent page turner. Michael Crichton has accomplished quite a few feats in his life, and shares a few with us in this book. I did not care much for the "supernatural" sections he has written about, but that is just my opinion. All in all, if you are a Crichton fan, or a fan of traveling throughout the world, I highly recommend reading this book.

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Summary: I feel like Michael Crichton is close friend of mine
Review: After reading this book by Michael Crichton I felt like he was a close friend telling me about his life. In this book you will smile, cry and wonder. This book will make anybody open up. Michael Crichton show that even tough life is not a box of candy, there always something good for you at the end. In this book you will see some names that you seen in other works of Michael Crichton. Almost all the people talked about in this book relates to one you might have seen before (ER, Sphere, ect...) You will also see where Michael Crichton gets the ideas for some of his novel (Congo, Great Train Robbery, to name a few). After reading this novel you will feel like you done all the thing right along side of Michael Crichton. Then after you see the world through Mr. Crichton you will think twice about most things you do.

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Summary: Intriguing but narcissistic
Review: Michael Crichton has a consistently amazing capacity for reading society's pulse when it comes to other people's obsessing and woes about the impact of new technologies. "Jurrasic Park," along with most of his other writings, is a wonderful example of his professional capacity to do so. However, "Travels" is something else. While I found Mr. Crichton more than competent to record and extrapolate his own personal motivations, he came across as calculating and less than fully engaged with people who appear in this irregular journal of his activities. In fact, they appear more or less as only window dressing among the facets of his activities, instead of integral elements of his life. I first read "Travels" several years ago, and after reading it again I compared notes with other,more skilled readers; each of us came away with the same impressions.

Overall, Mr. Crichton comes off as quite a narcissist. Perhaps this isn't the real Michael Crichton, but a reader wouldn't really know from "Travels" that he can be more than just a disconnected observer of the human condition.

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Summary: I BECAME AMAZINGLY INSPIRED.
Review: I picked up Travels when I was on the Greek island of Mikonos. I had just heard some terrible news that a childhood freind was killed in a plane he was flying after taking up a new career to deliver air mail. I had never heard of this author before as I had narrowed myself to other favourite authors. Now Michael Crichton has joined that list. The book is extremely insightfull and I appreciated the way he was not frightened to tell the truth no matter haw personal it had to get. I have had an interest in different forms of energy for some time he has made me realise that this is only the begining, I have not yet found my " cactus " yet, I have not heard the voice but I am being patient. I have since purchased Airfram and now suffer from lack of sleep whenever a Michael Crichton novel is bed side, ( I must limit myself to 1 book every 6 weeks or so ) I thoroughly enjoyed this book and it helped me through a very tough time being overseas hearing this grim news.