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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 31 “Return” (Pages 221 – 223)
This is a short chapter where Crichton puts us in the shoes of those who have been sabotaged, but don’t yet know the situation they are in. The reader is ahead of the characters. Crichton has built tension by revealing … Continue reading
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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 30 “The Main Road” (Pages 209 – 221)
At 104 pages, ‘Fourth Iteration’ is the second longest section – to the 111 pages of ‘Third Iteration’, and ‘The Main Road’ is the longest chapter at 12 pages – it is also past the halfway point, as there are … Continue reading
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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 29 “Breeding Sites” (Pages 192 – 205)
This chapter, the final part of ‘third iteration’ really kicks off the action. The kids see velociraptors on the boat heading to the mainland. Nedry steals the dinosaur embryos, releasing a computer virus to cover his tracks. The virus shuts … Continue reading
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Benoit Mandelbrot’s The Fractalist: Chapter by Chapter, Page by Page Review of an Excellent Autobiography
Mandelbrot’s breadth of work, language skills, and clarity make his autobiography a pleasure to read. Highlighting my favorite sentence on a page was my first step in an effort to improve my own writing. This led to page by page, … Continue reading
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