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Rating: really liked it
Lesson from this book:
Kids are annoying and will get you killed.Ok I’m slightly exaggerating but have you noticed how frustrating children characters are during a crisis?
I’m sure they would be during the apocalypse or when being tracked by dinosaurs but I wanted to throw my phone at the wall a few times while reading this book.
With that said, I now have a new completely reasonable phobia, being eaten alive by a dinosaur.
Crichton did an amazing job at keeping me on my toes and completely stressed! I was afraid it wouldn't live up to the movie since I remember being traumatized by it as a kid but it totally did!
I really loved all the science bits which weren't in the movie.
Worth the read!
More books that made me not want to have kids: https://youtu.be/H_ES-eqbKQs
Rating: really liked it
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“Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.”
Jurassic Park has all the major problems of a theme park, a zoo...and genetically altered prehistoric animals.
That's right - the dinosaurs are back from the dead and nothing -
I repeat nothing - could go wrong...right?
Ha. As my favorite character, Ian Malcom would say,
All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.
Though, considering some of the problems they had with the park, I strongly believe that several of issues
could've been predicted...that is, if Mr. Hammond and his scientists would've taken the time to thoroughly consider
implications and consequences of bringing back extinct species.
Dr. Allen Grant, Ellie, Ian Malcom and a host of other professionals (along with Mr. Hammond's grandchildren) are invited to the island to give
their expert opinion on this un-extinction.
Of course, this visit comes at an excellent time - there is a huge storm rolling in,
the raptors are getting restless and there's some evidence that the smaller dinos have made it off the island.
Perrrfect But don't mention any of this to Mr. Hammond or his staff -
they won't listen to any negativity.. As Ian Malcom said,
“They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.”
Predictably, the storm rolls in,
things go very, very wrong...and soon even Mr. Hammond might have to admit that there may be an issue or two in his precious park.
“You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.”
If I had to pick a
single, defining movie from my childhood...this would be it. So, of course, I had to pick up the book to see how it compared.
It definitely delivered.In this novel, Mr. Hammond wasn't quite the
bumbling, grandfatherly figure he is in the movie. And of his grandchildren, Lex is certainly younger than her movie-version (and young-Lex was more than a
little annoying).
This is one of those rare cases where the movie is not being a true-to-book adaption, but they are both equally entertaining and delightful.
Highly recommended!And just like when I was a kid, I am comforted that if this dinosaur apocalypse ever happens,
things would play out like this: “God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs."
"Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.”
The Finer Books Club 2018 Reading Challenge - A book with a written inscriptionAudiobook CommentsThe reader (Scott Brick) was alright. It's just...this book is about DINOSAURS - surely this reader could've mustered
some enthusiasm??
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Rating: really liked it
This is one of my favorite books of all time!!! I was way excited back then, 20 years ago, about the movie (minus the controversial scene portraiting San José, Costa Rica with a beach in the middle of it). Trust me. I am from Costa Rica and I live precisely in San José and we don't have a dang beach around.
I am sure that Spielberg wouldn't do that kind of mistake if he'd need to portrait Paris, France, but a dang capital city in a third world country? Who cares?
Well, I care, I am from that precise third world country. When you would have your capital cities portraited in a wrong stereotypical way, you will understand me. (And don't get me wrong. I love the movie and I am fan of Spielberg's work, just pointing out my feeling about that scene that even in the book happens in another different place).
I love the book, since the author, Michael Crichton, lived a lot of time in my country, Costa Rica, and he fell in love so much with our culture and geography that he wanted to use it as background for one of his novels.
The novel became his most famous book. In the book, you can realize how well Crichton indeed knew about our places using specific real places like the Cabo Blanco Biologic Reserve and the Puntarenas' Hospital Monseñor Sanabria. You don't came out with places like that with your quick internet search. You need to live here to know things like that.
Of course,
Nublar Island is a made up place but hey, no problem there, it's like
Gotham City or
Metropolis, always there are space for another fictional island in literature.
I was lucky to get my paperback copy of
Jurassic Park just when the movie was on its hype 20 years ago, since thanks to that it has the logo of the film (see? I don't hate the movie, just questioned that dang scene).
I love my edition of the book since never they published ever again the book with that cover, so it's one my priceless posessions in my library.
An insanely popular sci-fi novel with dinosaurs set on my country? Oh, yes! I had to love that book!
Rating: really liked it
Rereading for obvious reasons. :D :D :D :D
Rating: really liked it
Put me down for "liked the movie a little more."
"But scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast. And because you can stand on the shoulders of giants, you can accomplish something quickly. You don’t even know exactly what you have done, but already you have reported it, patented it, and sold it."
Malcolm: Edge goes to movie for Ian, by the visual. Though book-Malcolm has a number of such interesting lines and is full of 1989 version of chaos theory, eventually he grows tiresome . Interestingly--c'mon, is this seriously a spoiler?--book Malcolm is laid low by an infected wound. You can probably guess what happens.
Ending: Edge goes to the movie. (view spoiler)
[That bit about searching for the raptor eggs and the breeding behavior? I mean yay for Dr. Grant, but talk about anti-climax. (hide spoiler)]Sexism: Movie is less annoying, although the movie paired off the paleontologists who had a mentor-mentee relationship in the book. The female child, Lex, is ridiculous, annoying and helpless at turns, although she is allowed to defy the stereotype by being dependent on a baseball glove and ball. In the movie, she takes Tim's computer role.
Children: better in the movie. Tim's quite the hero in the book, role given to Lex in the movie. Lex in the book is pretty much everything one might hate about children.
And, obviously,
Dinosaurs: better in the movie.
Crichton's prose tends to be workman-like, and although he does manage to occasionally convey the immensity of the dinos, he rarely hit the from-another-epoch notes for me.
"Obviously the fitness of the animals to the environment was one area. This stegosaur is a hundred million years old. It isn’t adapted to our world. The air is different, the solar radiation is different, the land is different, the insects are different, the sounds are different, the vegetation is different. Everything is different. The oxygen content is decreased."
However, the velociraptors were scary in both places.
Interestingly, I had very few preconceptions about the book, except that it would be different from the movie--they almost always are. Except, interestingly, it wasn't--the scriptwriters had barely touched it. Sure, backstories and detailed dialogues were left out, as well as opening extraneous scenes about some baby-biting dinos in Costa Rica. Mostly though, there was trimming, and parts of the movie--especially early on the island--seemed page for page for the book. Nedry? All there, right down to the silver candy wrapper. Chain-smoking Arnold? Yep, Samuel L. Jackson nailed that too. Malcolm's croaking doomsday about 'life will find a way' and wearing all black? Yep, there too. Overall, interesting, but I was left with a curious desire to re-watch the movie.
Three and a half triceratops
Rating: really liked it
Jurassic Park: a novel (Jurassic Park #1), Michael Crichton Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton, divided into seven sections (iterations). A cautionary tale about genetic engineering, it presents the collapse of an amusement park showcasing genetically recreated dinosaurs to illustrate the mathematical concept of chaos theory and its real world implications. A sequel titled The Lost World, also written by Crichton, was published in 1995.
In 1989, a series of strange animal attacks occur in Costa Rica and on the nearby fictional island of Isla Nublar, the story's main setting, one of which is a worker severely injured on a construction project on Isla Nublar, whose employers refuse to disclose any information about.
One of the species is eventually identified as a Procompsognathus (a dinosaur that lived approximately 210 million years ago).
Paleontologist (scientific study of life that existed prior) Alan Grant and his paleobotanist graduate student, Ellie Sattler, are contacted to confirm the identification, but are abruptly whisked away by billionaire John Hammond — founder and chief executive officer of International Genetic Technologies, or InGen — for a weekend visit to a "biological preserve" he has established on Isla Nublar. ...
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: ماه آوریل سال 1996میلادی
عنوان: پارک ژوراسیک؛ نویسنده: مایکل کرایتون؛ مترجم: ناصر بلیغ؛ تهران، نقطه، 1372، در 520ص، مصور، جدول؛ موضوع: افسانه های علمی از نویسندگان ایالات متحده آمریکا - سده 20م
عنوان: پارک ژوراسیک؛ نویسنده: مایکل کرایتون؛ مترجم: محمدرضا طباطبائی؛ تهران، عارف، 1372، در518ص، چاپ دیگر تهران، یاد عارف، سال1381، در518ص؛ شابک 9647667000؛
عنوان: پارک ژوراسیک؛ نویسنده: مایکل کرایتون؛ مترجم: سعید مهاجر؛ مجید مهاجر؛ بی جا، سعید مهاجر، 1372، در407ص، مصور، جدول، نمودار؛ چاپ دوم 1373؛
عنوان: پارک ژوراسیک؛ نویسنده: مایکل کرایتون؛ مترجم: شهناز انوشیروانی؛ تهران، محیط، 1373، در541ص، چاپ دوم 1376؛ شابک9646264044؛
عنوان: پارک ژوراسیک؛ نویسنده: مایکل کرایتون؛ مترجم: ناصر بلیغ؛ تهران، نقطه، 1375، در520ص، شابک9645548470؛
دیگران نیز این کتاب را ترجمه کرده اند؛ جناب علی ایثاریکسمایی؛ و خانم نسیم آریان؛ از آنجمله هستند
پارک ژوراسیک، رمانی نوشته ی «مایکل کرایکتون»؛ پزشک، و نویسنده ی «آمریکایی»، به سال 1990میلادی است؛ در سال1993میلادی، «استیون اسپیلبرگ»، فیلمی بر اساس همین کتاب ساختند؛ داستان در رابطه با یک جزیره است، که دانشمندی از خون یک پشه، که دی.ان.ای دایناسوری در آن است تعدادی دایناسور را، در جزیره، به وجود آورده، او تصمیم به راه اندازی پارکی، برای دیدن دایناسورها میکند؛ پس از ورود یک تیم از دانشمندان رشته های گوناگون، کنترل از دست کامپیوترها خارج شده، و دایناسورها ....؛ و ادامه داستان؛
تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 29/09/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 20/07/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی
Rating: really liked it
So, straight to it. Jurassic Park, the book, is inimitable, apart from a few clumsy attempts. One thing that differentiated it from its wannabes is that, unlike books about sharks, snakes or let's say, zombies, dinosaurs come in very varied shapes. This means that the way the casualties meet their end is just as variable.
Michael Crichton props up his last act with inspired flair and experienced cunning. He knows that the action in this book will go only so far, just like last acts in an all out comedy movie WILL be lame, unless something rash and daring is undertook. The soliloquy (for us) of Ian Malcolm are just like the morphine that the doctor prescribed for him. Malcolm's rants about science are dishonest but it's all in good jest.
The verisimilitude of Isla Nublar is out of this world. The landscape, the computers, the dinosaurs, the genetic restraints that shackles the dinosaurs, and lastly, the human protagonists in the book, are so well imagined, arranged spatially, manipulated to create tension and pacing, that I recognize the hand of a master entertainer at work. Spielberg, eat your heart out.
The ultimate slap in the face of conventional science fiction is the fact, that Jurassic Park takes place in our timeline. How gutsier can you get? The book is now half forgotten, but that will change when the next wave of genetic manipulation arrives. Jurassic Park can have quite a few interpretations that pertain to civics, science, philosophy, and of course maths' sexy cousin, Chaos Theory! The only thing that matters though, is that the book makes good on its promise and gives us more than what it says on the tin; pure fun.
Rating: really liked it
Here's my video review https://youtu.be/HZjuLbquNIU
Rating: really liked it
Hey, did y'all know they made a movie out of this one? 
Rating: really liked it
“The hooting was louder as [he] scrambled to his feet and staggered back against the side panel of the car, as a wave of nausea and dizziness swept over him. The dinosaur was close now, he could feel it coming close, he was dimly aware of its snorting breath.
But he couldn’t see.
He couldn’t see anything, and his terror was extreme.
He stretched out his hands, waving them wildly in the air to ward off the attack he knew was coming.
And then there was a new, searing pain, like a fiery knife in his belly, and [he] stumbled, reaching blindly down to touch the ragged edge of his shirt, and then a thick, slippery mass that was surprisingly warm, and with horror he suddenly knew he was holding his own intestines in his hands. The dinosaur had torn him open. His guts had fallen out…”- Michael Crichton,
Jurassic Park There are certain books you read when you are young that you remember forever, because they are the first time you are introduced to certain truths – both beautiful and terrible – about the world in which we live. Robert Cormier’s young adult bus-hijacking novel
After the First Death taught me a lesson about the relativity of “good” and “evil,” and also that people could pee on themselves when they were really frightened. Tom Clancy’s
Without Remorse provided an unforgettable – to my twelve-year-old self, at least – account of the workings of a nuclear bomb. In
Night Over Water, Ken Follett gave me all the information about the mechanics of sex that I ever needed to know. Seriously. Ever.
And Michael Crichton’s
Jurassic Park? That’s where I learned about disembowelment.
***
Now residing in the shadow of its classic film version – and an ever-expanding list of intellectual properties, which include four sequels, a television show, and video games – it was fun to return to this novel I first read as a kid, to see how squarely it fits into the techno-thriller category that I inhaled growing up in the nineties. Like many other titles of that era, it demonstrated passion for emerging technologies while also sounding a warning about them.
At first glance,
Jurassic Park is the textbook definition of
high concept, a story that can easily be summarized in a couple of sentences:
Dinosaurs are brought by to life to populate a theme park. They run amok.
Of course, it’s a bit more complicated than that.
When
Jurassic Park begins, we are in Costa Rica, which has been experiencing a strange rash of animal attacks. Paleontologist Alan Grant and paleobotanist Ellie Sattler are called in to investigate the seemingly far-fetched notion that the attacks are being carried out by a species of dinosaur. Before they can get to work, billionaire John Hammond brings them to Isla Nubar, where he has created a “biological preserve” in which the main attraction are cloned dinosaurs.
Hired by Hammond as consultants, Grant and Sattler are joined by mathematician/chaotician Ian Malcom, who has a lot of interesting ideas about complex systems, and what that means for the park’s long-term viability. Joining this ad hoc tour group is Tim and Lex, Hammond’s grandchildren. What no one knows is that a disgruntled employee is about to conduct a bit of corporate espionage that will put everyone in grave danger.
***
Jurassic Park is not a character study. Crichton – at least in my experience – has always been better at cool ideas and nifty plot execution than creating fully-rounded individuals to act upon his stage.
Everyone here is presented pretty boldly, without much depth or shading. Alan is the hero, Dennis Nedry – the aforementioned disgruntled employee – is the villain. The kids – mainly Lex – are annoying. Strike that. Lex is
so annoying I can’t even.
That said, the people in
Jurassic Park are memorable, even without Steven Spielberg’s well-cast film version cluttering my head. I had forgotten a lot about this book when I picked it up after twenty years, but I still hadn’t forgotten Muldoon, the big game hunter, or the blithe, cluelessly-striving Hammond emitting the unmistakable odor of Dr. Frankenstein.
The star of this show is Ian Malcom, who is so important to Crichton that Crichton quotes him at the beginning of each chapter (called “iterations”). It is Malcom who – after a couple plot twists – is put in the position of presenting Crichton’s bigger ideas, a Greek chorus of one.
And yes, even though this novel has a graphic disembowelment – among other disturbing deaths – it actually has a lot to say.
***
Jurassic Park is filled with Crichton’s pretensions. Unlike most fiction, its pages contain charts, graphs, and simulated computer screens. Furthermore, as I noted above, Crichton is so taken with Malcom that he has him deliver pre-chapter epigraphs. Beyond that, Malcom’s monologues go on for pages, delivering Crichton’s message in a way that borders on the pedantic:
We are witnessing the end of the scientific era. Science, like other outmoded systems, is destroying itself. As it gains power, it proves itself incapable of handling the power. Because things are going very fast now. Fifty years ago, everyone was gaga over the atomic bomb. That was power. No one could imagine anything more. Yet, a bare decade after the bomb, we began to have genetic power. And genetic power is far more potent than atomic power. And it will be in everyone’s hands. It will be in kits for backyard gardeners. Experiments for schoolchildren. Cheap labs for terrorists and dictators. And that will force everyone to ask the same question – What should I do with my power? – which is the very question science says it cannot answer.
One of the big thematic differences between
Jurassic Park the book and
Jurassic Park the (original) movie is the way this issue is handled. Spielberg definitely weaves it into his version, but mostly via Goldblum’s marvelous line-readings. But his heart isn’t in it. Ultimately, Crichton’s source-material pessimism about science is overwhelmed by Spielberg’s utterly Spielbergian awe at the results (heavily underscored by John Williams’s stirring theme).
Thirty years old now,
Jurassic Park still feels fresh. Crichton’s anxieties about genetic tweaking obviously prefigures a lot of medical-ethical concerns – genetic confidentiality; genetic discrimination; genetics-based decision-making – that we are going to have to face within the next few years. Despite valid concerns, science is going to plunge forward, while everyone struggles to catch up.
Of course, the distrust in science voiced by Malcom can have serious side effects, and it’s interesting to review
Jurassic Park in light of an ongoing worldwide pandemic, the end of which has been delayed by large-scale refusals to vaccinate. It says something about Crichton’s dino-rampage epic that you could choose it for your book club today and have an interesting conversation.
***
Jurassic Park is a bit like
Jaws in that it has been pretty thoroughly overwhelmed by its cinematic spawn. Unlike
Jaws, however, Crichton’s book is actually pretty good. You can enjoy it on a visceral level, an intellectual level, or both. Like Malcom, you can ponder our plight, living in the midst of an unstable system headed for collapse, or you can turn off your brain and observe a man getting chewed alive by
Procompsognathus.
Rating: really liked it
“Let’s be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven’t got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.”🥚🦖🦕
Fabulous book!
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is the OG of scifi-horror-adventure-thriller. 🔬🧬 I haven't seen the movie in a while and don't remember enough to compare. But I think both are equally great. If I remember correctly though, I don't think the girl in the movie is as annoying as the one in the book.
I listened to the 2015 audiobook edition read by Scott Brick and it was excellent without the dramatic flair he's been accustomed to now. The Jurassic Park theme music adds a pleasant yet familiar atmosphere to the beginning and end of each disc.
My favorite scenes from the movie.
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Rating: really liked it
At the risk of offending what looks to be all my male goodreads friends who loved this (none of my female friends have read it, which is remarkable but probably not random), I couldn't finish it. It wasn't the multiple viewpoints or so-so prose, it was the science. I worked for awhile as an assistant paleontologist--field, prep, and curating--and I promise you, pretty much everything in the first 50 pages on this topic is wrong. I wasn't loving the book anyway, and kept finding random factual errors (passports not needed for international travel? You can't possibly fake a fax of a x-ray?) But the scenes on the fossil "dig" did me in.
1) you don't clean fossils in the field. You get them out of the field and into the lab, where you have air scribes, microscopes, safe places to rest them, and far more tools than you can schlep on your back out to the field.
2) "bits of bone flaked away as he dug." Then he's an incompetent idiot. You do everything to keep "bits" from flaking away. A bit IS the fossil. If this happens in the lab, you stop, stabilize, get a better prep person if you have a real star at it in your group, or you just quit. Plenty of fossils remain only partially exposed in museums trays because they are too friable to clean further. They're still useful. Just because it isn't on public display to wow the kiddies doesn't mean it isn't there. This Alan guy, he just keeps ruining the fossil. When real paleontologists flake a tiny little something away, they beat their breasts and curse and sometimes even cry.
3) They have the only egg site in the world for this species, and they're using jackhammers on it. Seriously? Jackhammers? We didn't own one. We wouldn't have taken one if it were a gift. You preserve the data at all costs, including leaving it the heck alone, if need be. Jackhammers may be rarely used with huge, whole specimens, if your team can drag a generator that far, but not in this case--never ever would that happen.
4) The broken bones get tossed aside and whirred up into fragments... No. Broken bones are also useful. Very useful. Broken bones get collected, cleaned, and curated. Museum collections are mostly of fossils that are partial. The only fossils I ever saw thrown away were some that got lost from their documentation and were therefore useless.
5) ...from which DNA is extracted. Not even in a million-year-old fossil, much less a 190-million-year-old one. When you crunch up fossils into sandy bits, all you get is sand.
6) rubber cement. Very big for stabilizing in 1903. Not so much when this book was written. A plastic resin dissolved in acetone is used, like polyvinyl butryal.
... and so on.
You simply cannot make that many factual errors and I continue reading. My suspension of disbelief is gone long before the monsters come on stage.
This is the third of his books I've tried, the second I've given up on before the end, and all three were just riddled with errors. And he was already famous--he could have interviewed anyone before writing. Why get it wrong when he could have, with a few hours of work, gotten it right? Maddening.
Rating: really liked it
This is one of Crichton's best novels, which varied widely in quality, and could be called part of the foundation of the Sci-Fi thriller genre with mainstream media adaptions and many great, new authors following in this footsteps.
Until the first hybrids, most novels of this genre were pure fiction with fantasy or Sci-Fi elements and analysis and criticism of society, until the first interdisciplinary approaches came and lead to today's milestones like the works of Suarez, Sakey, and others who create technothrillers that could come true.
In other of his works, Chrichton has the problem of and with telling to slow, info-dumping, character development, suspense, letting people talk and talk until a pretty constructed and unsatisfying end gives one a short wtf, was that really all, are there no more explanations, moment. But he was a physician too, so I would say that rocks the house so much that his stylistic flaws can be forgiven.
Spielberg's adaption took much of the atmosphere of the book and it´s one of the rare cases were both the book and the movie are fine pieces of art. And hey, dinosaurs and genetic engineering, that must be great!
Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique:
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Rating: really liked it
❝ Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.❞
-------------- Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
❝ All the Dinosaurs feared the T-Rex❞
------ Wade Wilson, Deadpool (2016)
🎵Velociraptor, he’s gonna find ya
He’s gonna kill ya, he’s gonna eat ya 🎵
----- Velociraptor, Kasabian
Welcome..... to Jurassic Park's reviewI remember back when I was a kid, my dad rented a VHS
(yes, the legendary VHS was real, young ones) cassette of an English movie. I think I was seven years old and my favorite pastimes were collecting gravel, screaming and making my sister's life hell. Watching movie was not one of them.
And that movie changed it all. And no, It wasn't Citizen Kane. It was the legendary Jurassic Park!
But it took me almost fifteen years to pick up the original novel.
(I am still not sure why it took me so long) And surprisingly, it was not what I expected.
Story When advanced genetic engineering breaks the very basic laws of nature by creating an extinct life form, billionaire John Hammond decides to turn that discovery into the best damn attraction the world has ever witnessed:
A Dinosaur park! But the investors of this ambitious project gets spooked because of some recent events and seeks a second opinion. They invite Paleontologist,
Alan Grant, paleobotanist graduate student,
Ellie Sattler, famous mathematician and chaos theorist,
Ian Malcolm, and a lawyer representing the investors,
Donald Gennaro for a guided tour of the park.
The unique voice in this story belongs to Ian Malcolm who spends most of the time warning others about the park.
So everyone went ahead with the tour and...
Well, let's just say things didn't go as planned.
Hey, I've watched the movie gazillion times! I don't have to read this book. Stop right there. The book is so very different from the movie. The movie is a visual spectacular that tells an adventurous science fiction story. While watching the movie, you will be shouting
" yay, Dinosaurs". The novel (almost) paints the same story, but its focus is on something else entirely:
The science. The very idea of creating life out of nothing, the dangers of unchecked development and the proof that you can not control the uncontrollable. Also, there is a healthy dose of chaos theory, Dragon curves, Dinosaur's evolution and survival! Throughout the story, you'll be like
Overall, Jurassic Park is one helluva a ride. It might not be as thrilling as the movie, but it is a hell more meaningful and informative!
Rating: really liked it
ALL THE STARS!Holy smokes y'all, I did not realize the amount of differences in the book vs the movie!
And yes, I love the book much more then the movie now.I've seen the movie 10 million times but the book of
Jurassic Park is more dark, gritty and so well done! Kudos
Michael Crichton on writing a classic that will last forever.
I decided to do audio on
Jurassic Park and
Scott Brick was the narrator. I'm super picky on narrators for audio books and I felt he did a great job.
***SPOILER ALERT***Here's the main differences from the book vs movie :
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1. The love relationship between Dr. Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler in the movie. I prefer the "friendship" from the book. It was more realistic and less Hollywood like.
2. Oh my God, the kids!! I loved Tim Murphy in the book and Lex Murphy was the biggest pain in the ass. I was wishing and hoping for the T-Rex to eat her everytime she opened her mouth.
Also, Tim was the older of the two.
3. Oh my heart. Dr. Ian Malcolm dies in this!! It was like imagining Jeff Goldblum dying and my heart broke. Realistically, it made sense that Ian died in the book since he was so badly injured but I'm glad Steven Spielberg kept him alive in the movie. I mean, it's Jeff Goldblum.
4. John Hammond was bat shit crazy, egotistical and evil. I much prefered the book version!!
I loved hating him in this! He was a great villian. John Hammond in the movie was too teddy bear for my liking. (hide spoiler)]I could go on and on with all the differences. Such as the ending, the beginning and the kick ass (view spoiler)
[Velociraptors' colony and nest (hide spoiler)] but most of you have read this book.
And on that note,
I'm so glad to finally read this. It was just fantastic!!If you have not read
Jurassic Park the book, go read it! Are you still here? Go!
