Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton
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Author: Michael CrichtonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1991-11-13
ISBN: 0345370775
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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- ISBN13: 9780345370778
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Jurassic Park
Book Review: Everything you want a novel to be.
Summary: 5 Stars
I, like most of you, saw the movie Jurassic Park before I read the book. I was only about 9 with the movie came out, and man it scared the crap out of me. The book was something I never considered reading thinking that the movie was so good that the book would be however better, just more of the same thing. It took me many years after I saw the movie to pick up the book and read it.
Was Spielberg's movie Jurassic Park good? It was fantastic. Was Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park good? No, it was amazing; the pure "everything you want" book I've read to date. Spielberg and his crew did an amazing job bringing the dinosaur's to life in the movie, but the horror and suspense in the movie doesn't seem to get anywhere close to that in the book.
The novel Jurassic Park is the quintessential team-based action-adventure. Like you know, there is a group consisting of paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant, paleobotonist Dr. Ellie Sattler, the opinionated "chaos theory" mathematician Ian Malcolm, the very annoying and unlikable dreamer and JP founder John Hammond, the physically strong and edgy lawyer Donald Gennaro (who's character was not portrayed in the movie but his name was - the layer character named Gennaro in the movie was actually based more on the Character of Ed Regis...), so that brings us to the media specialist VP of Jurassic Park Ed Regis (this is the guy who is really named Gennaro in the movie), the drunk South-African hunter who hates all dinosaurs and speaks bluntly Muldoon, the two science-geeky guys who take a lot of crap from John Hammond; John Arnold and Henry Wu, the fat slob Dennis Nedry, the park vet Harding, and last but not least two little kids Tim and Lex (Lex is younger and MUCH more annoying in the book than in the movie...Tim is fine). Anyway, which I'm sure most of you are aware of those charcters I just felt like doing that anyway.
The book takes you from the very first page and wraps you in like you dont know. It is so suspenseful and terrifying as Crichton goes into great depth as dino's rip through people (especially when Nedry dies...man, the movie's portrayal of that scene is so weak compared to the book...when I was reading it my mouth dropped and I kept reading it over and over). The T-Rex is like a mad hunter and doesn't seem to stop at anything. The book is pretty much what you are expecting as the movie doesn't stray far away from the central point in any way. At times, Malcolm's little fusses to John Hammond got repetitive, but he was the one from the beginning who knew the whole Jurassic Park idea would fail. Overall, the book itself proves to Hollywood-style novelists that we as readers still love the action/adventure books. I assure you, reading the book after the movie will not be regretted. It's such a joy to indulge yourself in the fastest page-turner I've read to date (Timeline nipping at its heals). And, if you love Jurassic Park (oh, and I'm sure you will) then don't stop there...go read The Lost World. The Lost World is more of the same fun stuff that the movie doesn't seem to portray very well. The Lost World movie was just the same title and main character but other than that the whole story was nothing the same.
Summary of Jurassic Park
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam Jurassic Park, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goes wrong...and science proves a dangerous toy...."Wonderful...Powerful."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Unless your species evolved sometime after 1993 when Jurassic Park hit theaters, you're no doubt familiar with this dinosaur-bites-man disaster tale set on an island theme park gone terribly wrong. But if Speilberg's amped-up CGI creation left you longing for more scientific background and ... well, character development, check out the original Michael Crichton novel. Although not his best book (get ahold of sci-fi classic The Andromeda Strain for that), Jurassic Park fills out the film version's kinetic story line with additional scenes, dialogue, and explanations while still maintaining Crichton's trademark thrills-'n'-chills pacing. As ever, the book really is better than the movie. --Paul Hughes
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