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I'm up to 'Castelgard' and they've just gone back to the past, but this is the last chapter until the epilogue. For my first Crichton novel, I'm learning he likes writing hard science and that he can't help entangling awesome female characters with lame men. Ah well. For big movie differences so far: Chris is not the professor's real son and Francois is a French minister (not on the team) and does not go to the past.

The choppy writing style becomes increasingly difficult to read