And it continues: Crichton

So I'm in what my dad will tell me is a bad habit of staying up till 4am (usually reading) and then sleeping in. Except, I don't live here (I'm on vacation from school) so I don't have any books from the library or anything to read. So I'm writing.

I just remembered that I have read ONE book since school started. And it was over break. Actually I read two more, but I spent about 4 hours a week discussing them , for two to three weeks (1 chapter per day, 50 minutes per day.) It was Crichton, 'Prey,' so I'll have to include Jurrasic park (probably read spring or summer '07). So the reason I'm really into Crichton is because I was at Great Clips(tm) after (or maybe before) reading it, and some woman pulled this great link about how Crichton says global warming doesn't exist (or is natural.) For those of you who have READ the book (not seen the movie, which, while based on the book, includes only about the name of a few characters(LIKE THE BOURNE IDENTITY (remind me to write about that later)), Crichton talks about 'balance.' He says that by trying to control all the counter acting forces, the humans had to diminish them, and that made it more fragile. He says that if you want things to be stable, you need two STRONG forces. Take this analogy: put two or three little twigs against each other, and they fall over. A little breeze knocks them over. Fall three trees and lie them against each other, and very little will knock them down. I might have phrased his argument poorly, so I'll elaborate more. He says that these forces cause cycles. Since the humans were trying to control these cycles they caused disaster, whereas if they had designed the system to match the cycles they would have survived. Think of it like a tree swaying in a hurricane strength wind: if you try to stop the tree, you have to pull really hard, and you run the risk of the tree snapping. Anyways, take out of it what you will. Prey is about nanobots gone awry, a similar situation. Except now they've become artificially intelligent. Anyways, its a creepy book and I should probably get out of the habit of reading till 4am, cause then its dark. and quiet. yeah. There was an important message, but I kinda forget what it was. It was basically another 'don't mess with nature or it will kill you' book. Like Jurassic park (here the movie and book) people died. LOTS of people died. He has this really good (bad) habit of basically making you think you're there (like all your English teachers want you to do, except I just realized that as I was writing this and I could picture the scenery. He's REALLY good at it cause I guess I didn't realize he was doing it till now.) Anyways, READ it. Its GOOD. And he is a moderately prolific writer, so I'll have to read some more, and then write about it! Anyways, hope you can take something out of this.