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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2025-10-21 05:38 pm

[ SECRET POST #6864 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6864 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2025-10-21 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
The scene where they're having the computer count the actual dinosaur numbers still gives me excited chills.

(Anonymous) 2025-10-22 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
I reread the book recently, and it's fascinating. I'd read it wehn I was a teenager, and I'd seen the film when I was a kid (in theatres, I'm old). But this reread it struck me how much tec

The book has the file systems reproduced in the text. And coding, and the popularity graphs. And it struck me that in 1990 most people reading the book wouldn't really be interfacing with a computer like that.

It's also interesting because the lawyers, the insurance company and the shadowy group of Japanese businessmen are effectively the good guys, putting the brakes on Hammond's ambition.

We read it for a book club - not at all our usual fare - and it was a really great discussion about plotting, pacing, technology, how much we would like a miniture elephant, even if it was bad-tempered.

And then I rewatched the movie and it's an absolute masterpiece.