2023 book club⤴
april book
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
science fiction · thriller · dinosaurs | 400-500 pages
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind's most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price.
Until something goes wrong...
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discussion
next club meeting date: April 28 @7pm
member reviews
sharmaine
Finished the book? » Yes
Rating? » 8/10
Book or movie? » Movie
What's fun about this book is the amount of nonsense in it. The science to explain the dinosaurs is crazy, the amount of graphs and charts within the text is so funny. People are fucking up left and right and it's absolutely insane, then a dinosaur eats somebody. And it all kinda works because it's supposed to be a big joke on the ego of "intellectuals". How better to illustrate that discovery at a break-neck pace is only used as an end-goal to commercial consumption by writing a book about opening up a genetically-engineered dinosaur theme park?? Buy an island, kill the locals, and let the children see the T-Rex!! The helicopter doesn't have proper seatbelts!!
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