Extinction
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Read between July 21 - September 1, 2024
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As a girl growing up in Salt Lake City, Olivia had been crazy about dinosaurs and wanted to be a paleontologist,
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Damn that's crazy
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Mark said, waving the bottle with a guilty grin.
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On another note it's very attractive when man abstains from all the stuff his wife can't have while pregnant
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she could guide her child to something a whole lot better than bronze.
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And if your child doesn't want to compete? God I can tell that this character is going to be annoying. Way to set up expectations for a kid that hasn't even been born yet
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just as she felt something strike the back of her neck and slide in, crunching the bone and going through it, as hot as fire and cold as ice at the same time.
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Oh thank god we don't have to follow her
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Café Bustelo
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She has taste
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“Jurassic Park for real.”
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Okay well idk if the review should be saying it's like Jurassic Park when the book literally says that. It's like you're trying to force the reader into thinking that when you should let your writing and storytelling speak for you
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a PB&J sandwich,
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Gurll you need more than that if you're gonna be trekking the wilderness
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“I can help you with that, Agent Cash,” he said, reaching out to take it from her. “We’re close to eleven thousand feet up here.”
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It's not what misogyny does to you, it's what it does FOR you
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or a double homicide if those bloodstains were to be taken seriously.
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In what universe where two people go missing and there are bloodstains where there wasn't before not serious?
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Was this a Jurassic Park for real?
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And there we go again, forcing it on your readers.
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He had a ruddy, handsome face, blue-steel eyes, and a brush mustache.
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So that mayor from Family Guy
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This was getting tiresome, hearing about this billionaire’s son.
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Get a different case then? A billionaire tech's son just went missing of course you're gonna hear a lot about him lmao so annoying
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“I thought this was a fancy resort.”
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How are you going to bring three course meals for 8 days on a backpacking trip?
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But, Agent Cash, let me assure you that this is no Jurassic Park.
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CAN YOU STOP OMG
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In resurrecting our megafauna, our scientists carefully removed the genes for aggression. Every single animal is chipped and equipped with a GPS unit and live video collar, monitored continuously.
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Literally what Jurassic Park did but go off ig
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“Wearing?”
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Why does that matter
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“Bloodless by Preston and Child.”
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THE SELF INSERT??
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You keep that back-cracking up and you’ll be using a walker with those little yellow tennis balls by the time you’re seventy.”
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FALSE INFORMATION!!
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He never would have believed it possible that an animal so large and powerful could be so cute and cuddly.
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I mean, you know that elephants are...the mammoths just have fur so it makes them even more cuddly.
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“A dung heap like this,” said Colcord, “is a perfect place to confuse and shake tracking bloodhounds.”
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"dun...dun...DUN" -the author probably
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mammoth shit-palace
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Genuinely funny
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“Sort of like Jurassic Park?” Cash asked. A sudden frown. “Nothing like Jurassic Park,” Karman reacted harshly. “Jurassic Park was bad fiction and bad science. Do not talk to me about Jurassic Park!” He almost spit out the name. “What we do here is real.”
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You're killing me Douglass, I'm trying to like you
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“Looks like that NPR report triggered a lot of departures,” said Romanski. “Good,” said Cash. “I hope they all leave.”
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Aren't you nervous about the killers being among the ones leaving somehow?
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An orderly flow of guests was still leaving.
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How many people were there? Dang
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“Jesus fuck, you can’t talk to my leading man that way. And I’m trying to shoot a movie here—”
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The balls to talk to him like that...?
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Nobody accidentally shot by an actor.” He smiled thinly.
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Bruh, too soon
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This was almost too good to be true.
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But how do you know you can trust it?
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He wasn’t going to say he had other, better, maps.
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But how do you actually know that?
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“And the animal was wearing a video collar,”
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Is the recording not set up to a server or anything? I feel like that's the first thing to call up and watch? Especially since you had to wait until day
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Her awe of the mammoths felt diminished somehow—instead of the noble creatures they appeared to be, they were big furry cowards.
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Like it's their fault?
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“Looks like Acosta and his dogs found the bodies of our two missing hikers,” she said.
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Eh it's not fair to say its them for sure....skeletons could mean anyone at first glance
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It felt preposterous—the stuff of thrillers. But whatever it was, he felt that Erebus was hiding something, maybe even from most of their employees.
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Just like Jurassic Park!
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despite her rather heavy size.
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Necessary?
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the more he liked and respected her,
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Oh god plz don't
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There were still a fair number of guests, taking selfies and watching the evening gathering of beasts at the lake.
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Which is insane. I would have been out of there already
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What an Instagram moment.
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Please never say this again
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The forensic literature on cannibalism was extensive,
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Stuff I'd like to read
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It had been developed not by forensic pathologists but by physical archaeologists and paleoanthropologists who had discovered grim assemblages of human bones at prehistoric archaeological sites.
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<33
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He and other anthropologists had developed a set of six criteria for determining if a set of human remains had been cannibalized or not. Since that time, archaeologists all over the world had established the unsettling fact that cannibalism was widespread in the human record and extended way back.
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Haven't heard of this! Look into
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“Double ew.”
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Would not make a good anthropologist
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Real food would take too long.
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Yeah but real food gives your body and brain the proper energy it needs. You especially need it
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It was outrageous, but there had been no other way to land the son of a bitch for his movie,
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You do realize that you actually don't need him and none of you have to hire him if you don't like his rules? I think it's stupid too but you have the power to just....not hire him Edit 9/16/2024: literally the entirety of Hollywood as well. Like if actors are assholes why keep hiring them? Just stop, no one is forcing you to give them money.
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“Well, I think, under the circumstances, we’ll give you those extra hours.”
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It would be sickeningly funny if they died now
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and a colossal waste of time.
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Fr like shouldn't they all be doing something....?
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“Of course,” said Adair. “I’ve done this a hundred times before.”
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I bet they messed with it
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Someone had stolen the dynamite.
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Almost like you really shouldn't even leave that kind of stuff out?? Tf??
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We wanted wording that pretty much allows us to go anywhere, see anything.
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Which is also how innocent people get screwed
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Sitting in the lodge, McFaul had been checking and rechecking the news sites as the stories got posted.
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So real
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His face was now everywhere, in all the media, the man in charge. He was responsible. This would be on him.
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HA, loser
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I mean, they’re inferior to humans—mentally.
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Many would argue against that
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