[gerbler]

Comparing their personal lives is also interesting - Crichton, married 5 times, Grisham married once.

Not morally judging someone for getting divorced, but I suspect such an ambitious life (Crichton) left little room for personal relationships.

[dan00]

I would interpret it differently. A man getting that easily bored by just one project, might as easily get bored by just one wife.

[proamdev123]

That’s a poor analogy. He wasn’t married to multiple women at the same time. And one can have multiple relationships simultaneously without getting married five times.

I think the parent’s reply is more likely.