IcedRaktajino
Yeah, I was in that situation. Hard copies were limited to used paperbacks for $150. Yikes.
I ended up buying the audiobook and high-seas'd the epub which I'm reading. I refuse to buy DRM'd ebooks but I do want the authors to get paid, so I compromise by buying the audiobook (which is a bit more expensive than the DRM'd e-edition) and acquiring the epub by...other means.
Not so much "watch" but I'm about 1/3 through Andrew Robinson's "A Stitch in Time". The way it's written, it's the perfect book to pick up and read when I have a few spare moments.
My saved items / wish list is full of stuff I want and could use. When I have some extra money, it's difficult to choose one thing, and I get stuck in limbo. So given I could set limits and hit a button, I feel like it would help me.
Despite posting a photo of the book in my hand, I haven't read it for a good minute. You're referring to the clinic scene? (I think that's first in the book, but not 100%).
Heh, that's happened a lot since our org updated to Win11. Updates in the middle of the day (despite IT assuring us those only install after hours 🙄) and people just randomly drop from meetings as their PCs reboot. Project manager almost called shenanigans on that until it happened to her mid-meeting.
Today (well, yesterday now), mine was just "Preparing to hibernate due to low battery" and I was like "wait, what?!" and was frantically making sure everything got saved (this old workhorse doesn't always want to resume from hibernate). Turns out I had the cord plugged into the laptop but didn't plug it into the outlet 
Not really. There's just a lot of characters in that scene (Muldoon, Hammond, Wu, Arnold, and Gennaro) all with dialog.
Oddly specific, but have been there.
Also they lazily copied ...
In film school, that's called an homage. /s
I think Nedry's death in the book is that for me. The movie version is practically G-rated compared to how it went down in the novel.
This was the first Crichton novel I read, and it got me into his other works. Most of them have the common theme of:
- There's a secret science place where science happens
- At event causes people not normally associated with the secret science place to have to go to the secret science place
- The secret science at the secret science place goes horribly wrong
- The secret science place blows up in the end
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.