Yep.

But he has not forgotten about you. Or any of us.

You're supposed to give a shit because, as I understand it, tweens and idiots love the fact that a guy that sounds like the Swedish Chef on thorazine screams "FUCK" at scary video games.

This is the part I love. He's bitching about the free medium he's using, that pays him. No YouTube, no laplander dipshit screaming into a microphone while playing Amnesia. Take your money and enjoy yourself, or start a website and throw up a paywall.

"Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed, Admiral Lancôme."

Good point. I understand Wu's motives from a very Jesse Pinkman, "Yeah, SCIENCE!" perspective. Were I a scientist given the opportunity by a loony billionaire to recreate dinosaurs, I'd leap at the chance. And, I'd probably take steps to engineer them to be more safe.

Well, sure, but the book makes sure you know that Wu doesn't know anything about the dinosaurs he's creating, hasn't considered the ramifications of what he's doing, and regards the dinosaurs as property rather than living creatures. Plus, he's the one that helped Hammond engineer those proof-of-concept tiny elephants…

No, they're just professor/student. Ellie mentions it once later in the book, and Grant talks about Ellie getting married (to a doctor from Chicago, I think) with Lex and Tim when they ask.

A Jamaican bobsled team?!?

If memory serves, you're right: They didn't like the book. Too many characters, not enough antagonists, not enough action. That's why they scrapped Levine (even though he's the catalyst in the book, and would have been a great role for a young Liev Schriber) and rolled Throne (who Richard Schiff should have been…

True, (and I'm pretty sure I would too) but I love that he doesn't even try to stick around Muldoon.

Gennaro! Yeah, I liked that too. Well, that's my favorite part: He's big and somewhat capable in the book, but he's still kind of a pussy. Like when Muldoon takes him out into the park to take down the rex (fair warning: I remember waaaaay too much of this book), they get ambushed by raptors and…Gennaro legs it, with…

Oh, man, that was the best. Muldoon, drunk, taunting Ellie as she runs out to distract the raptors, Malcolm high on morphine waxing poetic, the raptors chewing through the bars on the skylights…Atmospheric and awesome

I've got some sentiment wrapped up in it, but I think the book holds up. Crichton caught a lot of flak for his underdeveloped characters, but I feel like "Jurassic Park" and "Sphere" are some of the best character work he did. The story is great (the differences between the book and movie are interesting, and the…

That would be a delightfully unintelligible tour. Especially if he recorded it while still wearing his Jaws teeth

Hell. Yes. BULK FUNERALS!

Don't underestimate the lure of consequence-free murder and fuckbots, my friend

Spared no expense

I like your style. I would absolutely risk a Wayne Knight-based cataclysm to be up close and personal with a dinosaur. (Plus, let's be real: Fighting your way out of a dinosaur infested hi-tech jungle island would be pretty badass.)

With or without breakdown/race for survival?