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Re: Way off topic about Jurassic Park (was: Lego Mania Magazine)
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The Paleontologist and Paleobotanist (don't remeber their names) are not • particularly endearing in
any fashion... I've read many of his books (Congo, The Andromeda Strain, • JP, TLW, Sphere) and I've
come to the conclusion that he really doesn't know anything about human • nature... all of his
characters are charicatures of people: here is the person, and here is this
person's Big Major Flaw


I didn't know JP, TLW, Sphere are all from the same author. All I know is
movie versions of all of these are sucking deep. Especially JP..what a
marketing effort and what an air bubble afterwards. I think I should check
out who is the writer of the original novel before going for watching its
film version...:-)

Selçuk



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  Re: Way off topic about Jurassic Park (was: Lego Mania Magazine)
 
(...) Speaking of Crichton, has anyone seen the preview for that new movie "the 13th warrior"? The preview seems like it might be based on the novel "eaters of the dead", but I'm not too sure. -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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(...) I agree that Science is a character in his books, but if you compare the portrayal of Science and scientists in any Chrichton book to, say, Carl Sagan's books (like Contact) you will see what I am talking about. Everything that happens in (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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