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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 29 “Breeding Sites” (Pages 192 – 205)

Posted on February 21, 2026 by flybrand1976

This chapter, the final pat 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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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 28 “Control” [5/12] (Pages 186 – 192) Poisson vs Gaussian Distribution?

Posted on February 20, 2026 by flybrand1976

Crichton has confidence in the technical literacy of his reader – as shown by the eleven tables / exhibits he uses in this chapter alone. These are data tables made to look as if they were cut-copy-pasted straight from an … Continue reading →

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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 27 “Stegosaur” (Pages 179 – 186) – “Life finds a way.”

Posted on February 19, 2026 by flybrand1976

The Jurassic Park film has no stegosaur – instead the sick animal is played by a young triceratops. Stegosaurs do make an appearance in The Lost World movie. Here the ailing stegosaur gives us another glimpse at Hammond’s over confidence, … Continue reading →

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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 26 “Control” [5th of 12] (Pages 173 – 178)

Posted on February 18, 2026 by flybrand1976

This is the fifth of twelve times that Crichton will use the word ‘Control’ to introduce the chapter. He doesn’t list formal chapter titles in the original book, although they are referenced as such in the 2026 Amazon Kindle version. … Continue reading →

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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 25 “Big Rex” (Pages 167 – 173)

Posted on February 17, 2026 by flybrand1976

The words ‘Tyrannosaurus’ [14] and ‘Rex’ [49] are found for a total of 63 times in the book, and this is the first of only two times it is mentioned in a chapter title. The second comes later in Chapter … Continue reading →

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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 24 “Control” [3 of 11] (Pages 160 – 166)

Posted on February 16, 2026 by flybrand1976

Chapter 24 is the third of eleven chapters which are titled ‘Control’ – for the control room within Jurassic Park, and for the illusion of control which we see stripped away over the course of the book. Best Writing, Quotes … Continue reading →

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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 23 “The Tour” (Pages 155 – 159)

Posted on February 15, 2026 by flybrand1976

Chapter 23 has many tie-ins, perhaps as Crichton continues to follow the use of the Famous, Famous, Fictional trope to make the world real for the reader. We find electric Toyota Land Cruisers specially made for the park – and those still … Continue reading →

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