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Crichton: Spelunking caverns of the mind

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19880515
Author:William Marlin

Travels By Michael Crichton. Knopf. $17.95.

Aldous Huxley once made the troublesome point that many people who would reform or refine the world are so busy thinking about their "values" that they have no time to experience them.

At 46, the versatile author and director Michael Crichton certainly has experienced his. Travels, his 10th book, is a fetching, candid reconnoiter of the psychological and spiritual contours of a fertile, challenging mindscape. Its outcroppings already include The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery, and a number of well-received movies.

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