Jurassic Park

And then I realized that she was the person who edits and like publishes all of those little pop classics books.

The Jurassic Park one I read, the Jennifer's Body, all of those books.

She's the one who like edits them.

And I recognized her name from that too, because of course I scoured over that website back when I read those.

One of the things I really love about...

The novel Jurassic Park that the movie never can touch is that the entire novel is about control over a novel idea or control over a dangerous idea.

And the whole thematic statement about that in Michael Crichton's novel is that...

they thought they had control over it but the reality is they never had control because by the beginning of the book before dr grant and all the kids and all this stuff get on the island the dinosaurs have already left the island they've already escaped control was an illusion the entire time and here what we are told is that like there's the ghost which is the internal human essence the soul if you want and then in this cyberpunk future people can mod their bodies with all these sorts of cybernetic implants or what have you, or they can basically have entirely cyber machine bodies, and yet their ghost, their human essence, can be contained within this synthetic shell.

But from very early on in the story, we learn that that division between the ghost, the human self, and the shell, the artificial exterior, that boundary, that barrier between the organic and the digital is already...

I remember the first time I read Jurassic...

I think it's Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton.

I want to say there's like sections in it and he's showing... a pattern that's slowly forming.

And I remember what I think at the end, kind of going back and reading the little passages that he had interspersed or someone like Stephen King will put like, I obviously like a story like Christine will have music and song, you know, like song lyrics and stuff like that.

And we're going to have Lynn once again on the show.

We're going to talk with Nancy Gord, myself, and Father Gross on the next installment of Literary Lane to talk about Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, which is one of my favorite novels, by the way.

We're also going to do Straight Talk.

We're going to be talking with Michelle Sagarino, president of Cross Catholic Outreach.