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    MSBBC: Jan - Jurassic Park

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    • Auspice
      Auspice last edited by Auspice

      (MSB Book Club)

      Someone suggested Jurassic Park and y'know what? I've never read the novel, so let's go for it!

      If you don't have a copy, don't wanna go through the library, or don't wanna spend money, I found a PDF. It's search-able or I can dig it up for you if you're too lazy to type a few words into Google.

      We'll make it a goal to finish it by January 31st. Discussion of the book below.

      Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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      • Tyche
        Tyche Banned last edited by

        It's a great novel and worth every penny.
        Seriously buy it, don't steal it off some pirate site.

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        • Auspice
          Auspice @Tyche last edited by

          @Tyche said in MSBBC: Jan - Jurassic Park:

          It's a great novel and worth every penny.
          Seriously buy it, don't steal it off some pirate site.

          I share it for the sake of finances. Books are cheap, but the cost of a book is also (depending on if you buy used or new) a quarter or half a tank of gas. And I've been in places when that makes a difference.

          Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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          • Auspice
            Auspice last edited by

            My copy arrived yesterday. Gonna be a bit slow to read because I'm trying to finish Caliban's War (book #2 of The Expanse) and I have two books to read for an RL book club.

            Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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            • Derp
              Derp Admin @Auspice last edited by

              @Auspice said in MSBBC: Jan - Jurassic Park:

              My copy arrived yesterday. Gonna be a bit slow to read because I'm trying to finish Caliban's War (book #2 of The Expanse) and I have two books to read for an RL book club.

              It goes pretty quick. Honestly, I thought the sequel was better, read-wise, but JP is absolutely one of those good reads that doesn't disappoint.

              Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.

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              • Auspice
                Auspice last edited by Auspice

                Finally sitting down to start reading and....

                ***=thoughts on prologue***

                click to show

                The entire prologue hinges on a doctor not knowing the word 'raptor'.
                Seriously?
                Most people learn in HS science that birds of prey are raptors. I get not making the dinosaur connection. Sure. That makes sense. Zombie stuff does that all the time with the word zombie. It's the concept of 'this thing is so unlikely to exist in the real world that you don't make the connection'.
                But not knowing the word at all? In relation to birds? Come on.

                Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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                • Derp
                  Derp Admin @Auspice last edited by

                  @Auspice

                  It's really not that crazy, actually. There are a goodly many states wherein you will never see that word in pretty much any book, and many of us didn't know it prior to 1993 or so. While it may be common in some school systems, it's far from universal, so her not understanding the word and needing to look it up later is understandable, especially in the era before google gave us crazy fast access to just about everything we wanted to know and had never heard of before (remember, the book is 1990).

                  Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.

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