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Julie Burchill (review date 22 January 1994)

SOURCE: "Sometime After Dinosaurs, God Created Woman," in The Spectator, Vol. 272, No. 8637, January 22, 1994, pp. 25, 27.

[Burchill is an English novelist, screenwriter, and nonfiction writer. In the following unfavorable review of Disclosure, she contends that Crichton's writing is poor, that the story maligns women, and that it fails to deal with the issue of sexual harassment seriously.]

Novelization—of a film, or of a popular television serial—has always been a moderately quick way to earn a moderately good sum of money. (Often, people educated far beyond their intelligence are drawn to this way of life; I once owned an EastEnders novelisation prefaced by three quotes from Nietzsche.) But Michael Crichton—author of Jurassic Park and Rising Sun, as well as a bunch of earlier books no one's ever heard of (Eaters of the Dead, anyone?)—has happened...

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3. Criticism
   1. Pauline Kael (review date 9 November 1981)
   2. David Denby (review date 16 November 1981)
   3. Gary Jennings (review date 11 November 1990)
   4. Ronald Preston (review date 21 November 1990)
   5. J. P. Telotte (essay date 1990)
   6. Robert Nathan (review date 9 February 1992)
   7. Ian Buruma (review date 23 April 1992)
   8. Karl Taro Greenfeld (review date 11 May 1992)
   9. Julian Loose (review date 22 October 1992)
   10. Stephen Jay Gould (review date 12 August 1993)
   11. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (review date 6 January 1994)
   12. John Schulian (review date 16 January 1994)
   13. Patt Morrison (review date 16 January 1994)
   14. Julie Burchill (review date 22 January 1994)
   15. Geraldine Brennan (review date 30 January 1994)
   16. Douglas Kennedy (review date 4 February 1994)
   17. Michael Coren (review date 21 February 1994)
   18. Francine Prose (review date October 1994)
   19. Publishers Weekly (review date 21 August 1995)
   20. Mark Annichiarico (review date 15 September 1995)
   21. Mim Udovitch (review date 1 October 1995)
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