Dinosaurs, pirates, steam engines, talking gorillas, airplane factories.

If you're afraid of all of those things, then Michael Crichton might not be for you.

Arguably the grandfather of the techno-thriller, today's episode is Michael Crichton's books ranked by me.

And this is The Book Pile.

A comedy podcast about the best of books and the worst of books.

I'm Kellanersky, and I'm a comic, a father, and I'm grateful to my father who took me to see Jurassic Park when I was 11,

because it became the most memorable movie experience I've ever had, and it would never have

happened if my mom was in town that week. Now, just to be very clear again for anyone

thinking of leaving the podcast, Dave Vance is still very much the other half

of the book pile. And he will continue to grace us as co-host every other week. In the meantime,

this is a solo episode, but I have some fun guests coming up in the near future. Some of them

you've heard of. Some of them you haven't. But either way, I'll make sure that every episode is still as fun and funny as possible because I edit out all of the boring parts. Now,

for next week's episode with Dave, we will be discussing the book, Humans, written by the very

successful photographer and storyteller, Brandon Stanton, creator of the Instagram profile,

Humans of New York. A quick fun announcement, very exciting for us. If you're ever interested

in reading or listening to a book that we talk about on the podcast, you can now go to that episode's

description on your phone and click on the Amazon link to that book.

Whether you want a physical book, Kindle, or even an Audible version, most of the books we've

discussed have all three options available.

The only way that I've been able to get through one to two books a week every week for

this podcast is by listening to Books on Audible. And you can get your first one

free. Audible has literally changed my life for the amount of great ideas that I've implemented

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