When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working...
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I think Nedry's death in the book is that for me. The movie version is practically G-rated compared to how it went down in the novel.
First time I ever had to think about the possibility of what would happen with a sizable belly slash.
Never going to un-imagine it.
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This was the first Crichton novel I read, and it got me into his other works. Most of them have the common theme of:
- There's a secret science place where science happens
- At event causes people not normally associated with the secret science place to have to go to the secret science place
- The secret science at the secret science place goes horribly wrong
- The secret science place blows up in the end
That formula doesn't really detract from any of his books, but I did laugh when I had read enough of his catalog to see the pattern.
This is a structure even more common than just one author. It needs a name like the hero's journey has. Heck, your summary works for Alien Ressurection!
I nominate "Science goes wrong"
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This is a structure even more common than just one author. It needs a name like the hero's journey has. Heck, your summary works for Alien Ressurection!
I nominate "Science goes wrong"
or "science goes BOOOM"?
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This was the first Crichton novel I read, and it got me into his other works. Most of them have the common theme of:
- There's a secret science place where science happens
- At event causes people not normally associated with the secret science place to have to go to the secret science place
- The secret science at the secret science place goes horribly wrong
- The secret science place blows up in the end
That formula doesn't really detract from any of his books, but I did laugh when I had read enough of his catalog to see the pattern.
Have you ever read State of Fear?
I don't really recommend it.
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This is a structure even more common than just one author. It needs a name like the hero's journey has. Heck, your summary works for Alien Ressurection!
I nominate "Science goes wrong"
One term is "techno-thriller". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-thriller
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One term is "techno-thriller". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-thriller
That is more of an action vibe than a horror vibe though.
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… Im now invested in what happens next
What were they working on?
What happens over the next 20 seconds?
The book is even better than the movie, don't rob yourself of a great time.
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I think Nedry's death in the book is that for me. The movie version is practically G-rated compared to how it went down in the novel.
It was so visceral in the book. I remember watching the movie thinking "oh its about to happen", then it's basically off camera.
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Wow, it's been near 30 years since I read that. The thing I remember most distinctly is how different the lawyer was between the book and movie.
I only read the book as an adult on vacation. Thing that stood out to me was the very first scene and going "Oh! Yeah, probably good they didn't put that in the movie."
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I loved Crichton, but goddamned does he over explain tech.
The log was a record of the system over the last few hours.
If readers may not be familiar, he could help them infer that from character actions or dialog.
"Well Wu? What's the log say the system's been doing over the last few hours?", said Arnold
Congo was maybe the worst for techsplaining. Still a great novel!
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This is a structure even more common than just one author. It needs a name like the hero's journey has. Heck, your summary works for Alien Ressurection!
I nominate "Science goes wrong"
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This was the first Crichton novel I read, and it got me into his other works. Most of them have the common theme of:
- There's a secret science place where science happens
- At event causes people not normally associated with the secret science place to have to go to the secret science place
- The secret science at the secret science place goes horribly wrong
- The secret science place blows up in the end
That formula doesn't really detract from any of his books, but I did laugh when I had read enough of his catalog to see the pattern.
Not to nitpick, but it's only been a single page and I already feel like the author has over used the word "said", is all the dialogue this bad?
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Marginally related but today was having a meeting with someone who is notorious for not being plugged in. I wish I had a recording of it because she literally went "oh sh-" mid sentence and then was booted as her computer shut down. Impeccable timing.
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Now I want to read the novel again.
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This is a structure even more common than just one author. It needs a name like the hero's journey has. Heck, your summary works for Alien Ressurection!
I nominate "Science goes wrong"
I can't dive into tvtropes right now, but I've got dollar on someone having coined a term already.
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Not to nitpick, but it's only been a single page and I already feel like the author has over used the word "said", is all the dialogue this bad?
Not really. There's just a lot of characters in that scene (Muldoon, Hammond, Wu, Arnold, and Gennaro) all with dialog.
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Marginally related but today was having a meeting with someone who is notorious for not being plugged in. I wish I had a recording of it because she literally went "oh sh-" mid sentence and then was booted as her computer shut down. Impeccable timing.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Heh, that's happened a lot since our org updated to Win11. Updates in the middle of the day (despite IT assuring us those only install after hours
) and people just randomly drop from meetings as their PCs reboot. Project manager almost called shenanigans on that until it happened to her mid-meeting.Today (well, yesterday now), mine was just "Preparing to hibernate due to low battery" and I was like "wait, what?!" and was frantically making sure everything got saved (this old workhorse doesn't always want to resume from hibernate). Turns out I had the cord plugged into the laptop but didn't plug it into the outlet
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I only read the book as an adult on vacation. Thing that stood out to me was the very first scene and going "Oh! Yeah, probably good they didn't put that in the movie."
wrote last edited by [email protected]Despite posting a photo of the book in my hand, I haven't read it for a good minute. You're referring to the clinic scene? (I think that's first in the book, but not 100%).
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Have you ever read State of Fear?
I don't really recommend it.
Is that the climate change denial one?
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This is a structure even more common than just one author. It needs a name like the hero's journey has. Heck, your summary works for Alien Ressurection!
I nominate "Science goes wrong"
The secret/nefarious science place with a thousand big red buttons?
