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Regularly I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.
When Michael Crichton — a Harvard-trained physician, bestselling novelist, and successful movie director — started to feel isolated in his own life, he chose to widen his horizons. He tracked wild animals in the jungles of Rwanda. He climbed Kilimanjaro and Mayan pyramids. He trekked across a earthquake in Pakistan. He swam amid sharks in Tahiti.
Fueled by a powerful curiosity and the need to see, feel, and hear firsthand and close-up, Michael Crichton has veteran adventures as compelling as persons he made in his books and films. These adventures — both physical and spiritual — are recorded here in Travels, Crichton’s most astonishing and personal work.
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Dull and rediculous! Crichton experiences are laughably irrational and I was horrified that such a brilliant man would do the most illogical and bizzare things. He scares me.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The book starts off strong with appealing accounts of his medical school experiences, but after a while, the tale becomes more of a sales pitch for meditation and additional new age mumbo giant. By the end, Crichton looks like a total kook rather than the “Harvard trained physcian” that he uses to advertise himself. If you really want to read about “Travels,” pick up a copy of Tony Horwitz, Bill Bryson, or writers who really know how tell a tale.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
There are adventures throughout the world. If you can write well, you can share persons adventures with others.
Michael Crichton can write well (with the clear exception of State of Dread), and he shares his adventures, his “travels.” These travels are his travels through medical school, in search of adventure in out-of-the-way places, and his search for “the power of the mind” [my words, not his].
Two sections bother me a lot. One is his search for that “power of the mind”… for example, bending spoons with the power of thought. Although he keeps claiming that his science background keeps him on the straight and narrow, after bending his own spoon he says “fantastic! No need to search for any explanation.” The travel analogy would be, what? You suddenly appear in China, and the path to get there is not vital.
Strike one.
As Crichton hangs around with “friends” interested in pursuing sex with children in Thailand, he states he is not interested, but “boys will be boys” [again, my words].
Strike two.
And I’m sorry… State of Dread?
Strike three.
Michael Crichton, you are out!
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
A excellent friend of mine insisted I’d read this book, because she knows I like exploring the spiritual aspects of life.
In the end I was very disappointed. Not in the writing or the exploration aspects of the book, but Michael Crichton’s whole attitude. He would spend a chapter sharing his learnings and his eye opening experiences, only to revert back to his arrogant, narrow-minded attitude once again for the next chapter. How can anyone aver they’ve learned anything in life when nothing they learn from it seems to sink in?
Sadly, this book left me with a very terrible taste in my mouth. I have no desire to read any more of his books.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I like international travel and thought that I was buying a travel memoir that would inspire new thoughts for my travels. As a replacement for, I establish this book to be frustrating, annoying, irritating, and nearly unbearable to end. I have lost all respect for Michael Crichton. During the 10% of this book that really covered international travel expeditions, I establish him to be a whiney, weep-baby. He had no backbone, complained about EVERYTHING, and establish no joy in the simple things in life. He certainly didn’t find the “growth” that he claimed. Beyond that, the additional 90% of the book covered his weird fascination with auras, spoonbending, etc. It was just weird. Not a travel memoir by ANY means. If you seek to read this book because you’ve got the travel bug and are looking for inspiration…look elsewhere. This book should NOT be in the travel memoir section of the bookstore. I want my money back!!!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5