Went from reading a Crichton book (which I gave up on) to reading William Gibson and the way they tell stories could not be more different. Crichton gives you a sketch, and outline. Gibson carefully describes how someone washes their hands and how the soap smells.
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I would have said that I'd like the first type of writing better. Some authors drown you in details ... or worse repetitive dialogue. Somehow all of this detail isn't boring tho. Maybe because the details (smell of the soap) are both vivid, related back to the theme every time.
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Also, I can now confirm that I don't like Michel Crichton. His books always feel like they were adapted *from* a film. He has some really buggy ideology that he seems to be totally unaware of since he contradicts it in the boring political lectures sprinkled through the text.
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I am done with authors trying to preachily sell Reality-O-Systems disguised as fiction, mostly because dynamical systems transpire weirder than the stories.
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L'Engle, The Last Unicorn, Johnathon Livingston Seagull...
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