{"id":230479,"date":"2024-06-10T15:43:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T15:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/eruption-review-michael-crichton-and-james-pattersons-collaboration-fails-to-thrill\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:17:27","slug":"eruption-review-michael-crichton-and-james-pattersons-collaboration-fails-to-thrill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/eruption-review-michael-crichton-and-james-pattersons-collaboration-fails-to-thrill\/","title":{"rendered":"Eruption review: Michael Crichton and James Patterson’s collaboration fails to thrill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lava flowing from K\u012blauea, a\u00a0shield volcano\u00a0in Hawaii<\/p>\n

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Eruption<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
Michael Crichton and James Patterson (Century (UK) Little, Brown (US))<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you were the person behind the long-running TV show ER<\/i>, and also had the idea for Jurassic Park<\/i>, you would be pretty proud of yourself, right? Now imagine you came up with those, plus Westworld<\/i>, Twister<\/i> and a host of other blockbusters.<\/p>\n

That would make you Michael Crichton, of course. And what a spectacularly creative person he was. In 1995, he could lay claim to the US\u2019s top-selling book\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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