How to Write a Michael Crichton Best Seller in Five Easy Steps:

Tounge in cheek article by Michiko Kakutani.

Enjoy!

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1. Pick a hot-button subject like genetic engineering ("Jurassic Park"), sexual harassment ("Disclosure") or Japan's threat to America ("Rising Sun") and use it to lend your novel a glossy veneer of topicality.

2. Cast the novel with some really detestable villains (like the lying, scheming, man-eating Meredith Johnson in "Disclosure") and some really nice, appealing heroes (like Meredith's poor, well-meaning victim, Tom Sanders) so inattentive readers will automatically know whom to root for.

3. End each chapter on a scary, cliff-hanging note to make sure that readers will keep reading, regardless of the characters' vapidity.

4. Include lots of frantic chase scenes or race-against-the-clock scenes that will translate graphically to the screen.

5. Put plenty of technical, pseudo-specialist talk (about computers, medicine, biology or chaos theory) into your characters' mouths to give readers the illusion that they're learning something as they quickly flip the pages.

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