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I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.   

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Separate Orbits
Yael Mermelstein
Progress: 119/427pages
BATMAN #53 ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
LeeWeeksBatman53, TomKingBatman53
BATMAN #54 ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
MattWagnerBatman54, TomKingBatman54
BATMAN #52 ((DC REBIRTH)) ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
LeeWeeksBatman52, TomKingBatman52
BATMAN #51 ((DC REBIRTH)) ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
LeeWeeksBatman51, TomKingBatman51
Infinity Wars: Iron Hammer (2018) #1 (of 2)
Al Ewing, Humberto Ramos
Champions (2019-) #4
Jim Zub, Jacinto Benavente
SUICIDE SQUAD #46 ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
JosLuisSS46, RobWilliamsSS46
SUICIDE SQUAD #45 ((SINK ATLANTIS)) ((DC REBIRTH )) ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
JosLuisSuicideSquad45, RobWilliamsSuicideSquad45
Champions (2019-) #3
Jim Zub, Jacinto Benavente

Fun, slow, with flawed science

Jurassic Park - Micheal Crichton

And I should clarify: some parts of this books are fun, mostly everything with dinosaurs.   The baby raptors, the dinosaurs chasing everyone and terrifying them in the process?   So much fun!   Even the descriptions of dinosaurs, or the remains as Alan Grant and Ellie Satler are on the dig in the beginning?   A lot of fun. 

 

Other parts are slow.   The whole history of genetic engineering?   Necessary, especially the part about how a lapse in ethical and legal guidelines could allow this to happen.   It didn't have to be quite so long, however. 

 

More scenes were simply drawn out in the middle, and towards the end of the book, as well.    I can't see myself rereading those parts, but with the X-Ray function in Kindle books, I can see myself rereading the parts with the baby raptors, or with the adult raptors. 

 

This also plays at being morally 'responsible' by showing how you shouldn't play god, especially with dinosaurs, but it's really all Ian Malcolm nagging everyone, bless him, and no one really listening or learning.   There is no real nuanced exploration of what it means to bring dinosaurs back, and so I found this lacking in that regard.   I found it a little pitiful that it tried, since it was so obviously an action book with one character pretending to be a moral compass without truly encompassing what it would mean to societies and the world - ecologically - to bring these dinosaurs back.   Although I mentioned I was reading this to a customer, and he scoffed: dinosaurs couldn't exist in this world, as the percentage of oxygen in the air, for example, was different.  And that, he pointed out, was just brushing the surface of the issues of bringing dinosaurs into the modern world. 

 

Like I said, super shaky science.   Of course, I wasn't reading it for realism.  I know velociraptors are really turkey-sized, not-very-smart beings, or so we think.    But I didn't really care: I wanted the super smart, human sized predators that I find fascinating to the point of obsession.   (And I mean like little boy obsessed.   Y'know how little boys tend to love dinosaurs?   Yeah, that's me, just I focus on raptors.)

 

And this provided me with enough compelling raptor scenes that I stuck with the book.