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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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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 22 “Control” (2 of 11) (Pages 146 – 155)

Posted on October 27, 2025 by flybrand1976

This is the 2nd of what will be eleven ‘chapters’ under the title of ‘Control’ – the first was just two chapters earlier (Chapter 20). Repetition is a key part of persuasion, and Crichton understands that he must persuade the … Continue reading →

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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 21 “Version 4.4” (Pages 140 – 146)

Posted on September 8, 2025 by flybrand1976

These aren’t real dinosaurs – we know that through Crichton’s detailed explanation of how they were made technically feasible. We’ve looked at old DNA that has deteriorated, we’ve patched that DNA with other animals – frogs, birds, and reptiles, and … Continue reading →

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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 20 “Control [1/11]” (Pages 129 – 140)

Posted on September 7, 2025 by flybrand1976

Crichton doesn’t formally call his chapters ‘chapters’ in the same way he calls his ‘sections’ ‘iterations’ – Chapter 20 is the first of eleven chapters that have the word ‘Control’ as the title, ten of them have the title solely … Continue reading →

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