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Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I love the movie, but my spouse talked me into reading the book and it’s an absolute masterpiece. Michael Crichton is to science what Steven king is to scary.
The tongue scene was easily the worst thing I’ve ever read.
This was the first Crichton novel I read, and it got me into his other works. Most of them have the common theme of:
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?
Not really. There’s just a lot of characters in that scene (Muldoon, Hammond, Wu, Arnold, and Gennaro) all with dialog.
Have you ever read State of Fear?
I don't really recommend it.
Is that the climate change denial one?
Yes.
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?
I can’t dive into tvtropes right now, but I’ve got dollar on someone having coined a term already.
One term is “techno-thriller”. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-thriller
That is more of an action vibe than a horror vibe though.
or “science goes BOOOM”?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 7 months ago
Is that when the T-rex brings Dr. Ellie Sattler to a quivering orgasm?