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Jurassic Park

(Jurassic Park #1)

Michael Crichton

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From the author of "Timeline, Sphere, "and" Congo, " this is the classic thriller of science run amok that took the world by storm. #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER "Wonderful . . . powerful."--"The Washington Post Book World" An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning di ...more

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Published September 25th 2012 by Ballantine Books (first published November 7th 1990)

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Jul 20, 2018 Emily (Books with Emily Fox) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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 stressed AF! I wa ...more

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Dec 07, 2007 Alejandro rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, favorites, novel, horror

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 prec ...more

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Jun 06, 2015 Wendy Darling rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: action-packed, adult, sci-fi-or-futuristic, thriller-suspense, read-2015

Rereading for obvious reasons. :D :D :D :D

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May 02, 2018 Miranda Reads rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, 2018-finer-books-club-reading-chall

“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 so ...more

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Mar 20, 2016 Sr3yas rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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❝ 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 review

I 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 ...more

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Mar 25, 2008 Brad rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Recommended to Brad by: James Davie

Shelves: sci-fi, adventure, cinematic, ecological, pb-and-j-dipped-in-hot-chocolate

I always seem to forget how good Jurassic Park is. I blast through it once every few years, throw it on my shelf and the distance slowly makes me derisive, and then something forces me to pick it up again when my brain needs a little peanut butter and jelly dipped in hot chocolate, and I am forced to admit that Jurassic Park is a damn fine novel.

Sure it's packed with Michael Crichton's usual band of screenplay-adaptation-friendly archetypes, sure it derives much of its plot and thought from Art I always seem to forget how good Jurassic Park is. I blast through it once every few years, throw it on my shelf and the distance slowly makes me derisive, and then something forces me to pick it up again when my brain needs a little peanut butter and jelly dipped in hot chocolate, and I am forced to admit that Jurassic Park is a damn fine novel.

Sure it's packed with Michael Crichton's usual band of screenplay-adaptation-friendly archetypes, sure it derives much of its plot and thought from Arthur Conan Doyle, HG Wells and Mary Shelley, sure it's pulpy and quick to read, but those things aren't necessarily bad, and Crichton does enough to elevate or alter these elements to make Jurassic Park a fine piece of popular Sci-Fi in its own right.

Yes, the characters are there to serve the plot. Each has an important skill or skill-set -- Muldoon is the "Great White Hunter," Malcolm is the chaos theoretician, Grant and Saddler are the paleontologists, Tim and Lex are the kids in peril, etc., etc. -- and who they are and the how their stories unfold are easily altered or even cut entirely in the shift from book to screen because they are less important than their skills, yet Crichton still manages to make them likable enough that we care about what happens to them. None of the characters are dynamic or round, but their static flatness makes them no less interesting than a character like Ian Fleming's James Bond. They may not be as memorable as Bond (although Ian Malcolm has some pretty impressive popularity for a supporting character), but they don't really have to be. We can forget them after the book is over, then enjoy them anew when we go back to the book later. They aren't Hamlet, but they work.

And yes Crichton borrows liberally, but he borrows from the stars. He uses Shelley's classic creation-gone-mad trope, and he blatantly thieves from Doyle's Lost World and Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau, but he does it with style. Granted it's a pulpy style, but that pulpiness is an asset. It takes those pieces he's combined and lets the reader catch mere glimpses of them outside the roller coaster car as he takes us into drops and curves and spins and loop-de-loops. The speed and pace nearly makes us forget from whom he's borrowing. And that is by design. Crichton's pulpiness is pacing, conscious pacing, and as literary action-oriented plotters go, Crichton is a master of speedy obfuscation.

Add to all that some memorable tirades about science and reason and the environment, some kick ass Velociraptors and T-rexes, an excellent scene with toxic eggs, and some rather insightful criticism of "great men," and Jurassic Park is a book that I predict will stand the test of time. We may not see its future today, but fifty to a hundred years from now it will be taught in schools and remembered, while other, more literary books will be forgotten.

later -- It just struck me that if I forget the quality of this book between readings, and I do, then my prophecy concerning Jurassic Park's staying power is probably flawed. I think I may be more Nostradumbass than Nostradamus. ...more

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Oct 09, 2014 Kelly (and the Book Boar) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2014

Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/

PLEASE NOTE THIS REVIEW IS ABOUT A BOOK THAT BECAME ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR MOVIES OF ALL TIME MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO, GROSSED OVER A BILLION DOLLARS AND CHANGED THE WAY WE LOOKED AT SPECIAL EFFECTS FOREVER. IF YOU CONSIDER ANYTHING IN MY REVIEW A “SPOILER,” THERE’S A GOOD CHANCE YOU WERE CREATED IN A LAB FROM SOME FOSSILIZED AMBER.

It all begins with a billionaire who has a big imagination and a lot of spare money lying around. By dro ...more

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Jun 30, 2015 Luffy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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 ...more

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Jan 03, 2009 Anne rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi

Hey, did y'all know they made a movie out of this one?

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Apr 04, 2013 Zora rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: bad-couldnt-finish

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 er 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.
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Aug 06, 2018 Kaylin (The Re-Read Queen) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: almost-great, memorable-male-characters, sci-fi

I love, love, love the amount of research put into the science. As a bio nerd, I love that it built off possibilities and expanded into something intense and thrilling.

But the characters were a little one-dimensional? Like they just existed to push the plot forward? And maybe it’s just because the movie handles tension SO well... this didn’t seem to? (You don’t have to stop and explain the science WHILE the Raptors are attacking, mkay?)

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It’s possible I procrastinated reading this for my m ...more

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Aug 21, 2010 Simeon rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi, mystery-thrillers

Science-at-the-brink-of-chaos fiction. Nonlinear dynamics had barely been invented, and yet here it was, gracing each chapter with a foreboding message of disintegration.

Not literature, not amazing prose, but a true edge-of-your-seat thriller.

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Nov 30, 2014 Lyn rated it really liked it · review of another edition

As is most frequently the case, the book was better than the film.

And it was a really cool movie. Directed by Stephen Spielberg.

The section of Universal theme park in Orlando is fun too.

Michael Crichton’s 1990 genetically powered biological thriller combines an action packed adventure story with a cautionary tale of corporate, capitalistic greed gone wrong and rolls it all into a humanistic story with excellent characterization and that could be read as a powerful allegory of the harsh realities ...more

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Dec 23, 2015 Lola rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: did-not-finish

DNF. The movie is better.

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Sep 12, 2008 Ahmad Sharabiani rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: movie, novel, 20th-century, science, fiction

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 1997, both novels 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 1997, both novels were re-published as a single book titled Michael Crichton's Jurassic World, unrelated to the film of the same name.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: ماه آوریل سال 1996 میلادی
عنوان: پارک ژوراسیک؛ نویسنده: مایکل کرایتون؛ مترجم: ناصر بلیغ؛ تهران، نقطه، 1372، در 520 ص، مصور، جدول؛ موضوع: افسانه های علمی سده 20 م
عنوان: پارک ژوراسیک؛ نویسنده: مایکل کرایتون؛ مترجم: محمدرضا طباطبائی؛ تهران، عارف، 1372، در 518 ص، چاپ دیگر: تهران، یاد عارف، 1381، در 518 ص؛ شابک: 9647667000؛
عنوان: پارک ژوراسیک؛ نویسنده: مایکل کرایتون؛ مترجم: سعید مهاجر؛ مجید مهاجر؛ بی جا، سعید مهاجر، 1372، در 407 ص، مصور، جدول ، نمودار؛ چاپ دوم 1373؛
عنوان: پارک ژوراسیک؛ نویسنده: مایکل کرایتون؛ مترجم: شهناز انوشیروانی؛ تهران، محیط، 1373، در 541 ص، چاپ دوم 1376؛ شابک: 9646264044؛
عنوان: پارک ژوراسیک؛ نویسنده: مایکل کرایتون؛ مترجم: ناصر بلیغ؛ تهران، نقطه، 1375، در 520 ص، شابک: 9645548470؛
پارک ژوراسیک، رمانی نوشته ی: مایکل کرایکتون؛ پزشک، و نویسنده ی آمریکایی، به سال 1990 میلادی ست. در سال 1993 میلادی، 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 مختلف، کنترل از دست کامپیوترها خارج شده، و دایناسورها .... ادامه داستان؛ ا. شربیانی ...more

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Aug 25, 2015 seak rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: arc-review, 2015, audio

I can't believe how much I enjoyed this book. I guess I've always had my reservations because of what an impact the movie had on me as a kid. I was about 9 or 10 when the movie first came out and it blew my mind. As the book likes to point out, boys love dinosaurs and that was true.

As a side note, I'm loving how much my son (5 y.o.) loves dinosaurs. He knows so much more about them than I do, in fact his favorite is the Giganotosaurus, a dinosaur I learned existed from him.

(the hipster's T-Rex)

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Oct 11, 2017 RedemptionDenied marked it as to-read · review of another edition

The Kindle (25th Anniversary) edition is currently uber cheap: $0.64 in the States, £0.49p in the UK and $2.99 in Canada. I read the hardcover copy, about two decades ago - and if I was able to rate it at that juncture, I would have given it 4★

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May 16, 2018 karen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

i haven't read this book in a long, long time, but i STILL managed a fine readalike list for it over on riffle, in what be my very last riffle list ever. ):

http://www.rifflebooks.com/list/25772...

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Sep 20, 2011 Nandakishore Varma rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction

What do you say about a concept that has become iconic? Jurassic Park has grown beyond Crichton's novel, into a movie, into a theme park attraction, into a thousand types of paraphernalia... In fact, it has become so popular that we forget the original work this concept came from.

I saw the movie first. It is a marvel of special effects and unbearably suspenseful. The book is nothing like that.

This novel is a serious work of science fiction. As with Crichton's other novels, the research is so det ...more

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Jun 14, 2014 Will M. rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-i-own, 2014, sci-fi, favourites

Another masterpiece by Crichton. Can't believe it took me years to finally pick this one up and read it.

I watched the movie adaptation when I was a kid, so I can't really remember much of the plot other than dinosaurs gone wild, and I'm sure I remember an elevator scene. Aside from those, I had no idea what was in store for me before I read this. I wasn't hesitant on reading this, but my really long TBR list was the reason why I didn't read this sooner than I should have. All I can say is that Another masterpiece by Crichton. Can't believe it took me years to finally pick this one up and read it.

I watched the movie adaptation when I was a kid, so I can't really remember much of the plot other than dinosaurs gone wild, and I'm sure I remember an elevator scene. Aside from those, I had no idea what was in store for me before I read this. I wasn't hesitant on reading this, but my really long TBR list was the reason why I didn't read this sooner than I should have. All I can say is that I regret not prioritizing this, because this was an amazing novel.

I had two reasons why I finally picked this up, and one of them would be that it's a Crichton novel for pete's sake. The mere fact that I kept pushing it back on my TBR list was crazy of me. The other reason would be that I heard they're making a new movie adaptation, so I wanted to freshen up my knowledge of this one.

The characters were really likeable, just like the ones from Crichton's other novels. Some may be funny, witty, annoying, or plain old normal. None of the characters were bad, and I don't consider an annoying character to be bad, cause a novel needs an annoying character. My favorite in this one was Tim. Stubborn young man stuck with his annoying little sister Lex. The constant bickering added to the positive attributes of both characters. The others were really good, but I guess I can't say that they were memorable. Nedry was this fat guy who I consider to be the annoying one.

This novel was violent, and I really liked that. What would one expect from unrestrained dinosaurs? Obviously violence. I can honestly say that the things that happened in the novel were plausible. If a mad scientist one day decided to really invest in this, I believe there's a possibility. Anything is possible people, anything. I'm a pre-med student, and there's no saying that I may become a mad scientist one day and eradicate the human race by reviving dinosaurs. Just kidding.

The plot was really good. Not perfect, but it was satisfactory. Quite similar to Micro in a way, but it had its own unique attributes. The ending clearly was not cliche in any way, because the last few chapters were awesome. Mind rattling and full of suspense.

For any Sci-Fi fans out there, and especially dinosaur lovers, this is the novel for you. Stop hesitating and just pick this up. I assure you that you will not be disappointed in the end. I have the sequel sitting around in my shelf, and I might pick that up next after a few other novels. 5/5 stars, deserves nothing less, but it think it deserve some more.

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May 08, 2015 Vanessa J. rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi, 2015, humans-are-scary

Originally posted on Books With Chemistry

Well, everyone knows what this is about, but for this review to make sense, I’m going to suppose you all live in caves and have never heard about the existence of Jurassic Park.

Everything starts with a billionaire that wants more money. It has been discovered that extincted animals can be cloned and, in a way, brought back to life. He uses this to buy a remote island in Costa Rica and build a theme park that features the famous dinosaurs. Things, however, ...more

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Jul 20, 2017 Ashley Daviau rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I was a little hesitant to read this book because I have such an immense love and appreciation for the movies. But I'm glad to say that I think I may have enjoyed the book MORE than the movies! Which is really saying something because Jurassic Park is one of my all time fave movies!

The only thing that stopped it from being five stars is that I found the beginning a bit slow to start. There was a lot of explanation and set up and I found it a tad boring if I'm being honest. But I can see how it ...more

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Aug 27, 2018 Aishu Rehman rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, english-literature

This book is the perfect blend of reality and imagination. I applaud Michael Crichton- this concept is solid as well as reasonable. This book includes all of the character's perspectives, which I find a little confusing at times, but does an awesome job of telling the story. There is equality of all types, as there are two strong female characters, and the book takes place on an island near Costa Rica. The only thing is that this book includes lots of gore, people and animals dying, and a single ...more

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May 29, 2015 Brandon rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: Fans of the movie

Recommended to Brandon by: Alaina

Shelves: 2015, fiction, syfy

"Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something."

In 1993, Steven Spielberg brought dinosaurs to life on the big screen. At the time, Jurassic Park was so immensely popular that I would be shocked to find someone today who hasn't seen it. Now, with the forthcoming release of Jurassic World, dinosaurs are all the rage again. During a routine trip to the book store, I picked up both Ju "Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something."

In 1993, Steven Spielberg brought dinosaurs to life on the big screen. At the time, Jurassic Park was so immensely popular that I would be shocked to find someone today who hasn't seen it. Now, with the forthcoming release of Jurassic World, dinosaurs are all the rage again. During a routine trip to the book store, I picked up both Jurassic Park and The Lost World for a pretty good price.

Before I cracked the cover on Jurassic Park, I skimmed through a few reviews online. Many of the reviews stated that there are pretty noticeable differences between the novel and the movie. Right away, this had me excited. I'm a read the book, see the movie kind of guy - not the other way around. I find that if I've seen the movie first, I have a hard time forming my own vision in my head. Maybe I have no imagination. Who knows?

As far as differences go, "noticeable" is an understatement. While the science behind the dino resurrection stays the same (blood from mosquitoes in amber), many of the characters are completely different. Don’t worry, Goldblum's Ian Malcolm is still as self-righteous as ever but the biggest difference is that of John Hammond. In the movie, he comes across as this overgrown child full of wonder whereas in the book, he’s this arrogant, egotistical man seemingly without compassion. He’s also infallible. The best example of this comes from the discussion on the velociraptors. In the novel, Malcolm calls Hammond out on the fact that everyone had been surprised at just how vicious the raptors were, that they often killed and maimed workers. It never once entered into Hammond’s head that they could do without one less species running around.

I’ve never read a Crichton novel before but the man can really turn up the tension to eleven. The best example being the use of the velociraptors. Like the movie, they’re presented as the story’s main villains (although several characters allude to it not being their fault, that they’re just hunting and eating to survive) and the scenes in which they’re stalking the main characters had me speed reading.

Aside from the raptors, you had that meat grinder on legs, the Tyrannosaurus Rex. For an eight ton killing machine, he sure can lurk in the shadows. Just when Alan and the kids (Tim and Lex) think they've escaped his wrath, he jumps out and scares the ever loving shit out of them. This leads to Lex saying on two occasions “I hate him” which made me laugh each time Crichton had her say it.

For as great as the book is, I feel there’s certainly something lost in the pages. Jurassic Park is a story that is so visual that nothing in the novel could compare to seeing a dinosaur come to life before your eyes on the big screen. While I felt the original story is a lot stronger than the one presented in the movie, it’s hard to imagine one without the other. That being said, I could go on and on about all the subtle differences here and there but that would cause this review to extend to an uncomfortable length. So, I’ll just link to this page here. I would stay away from it if you intend to read the novel as it’s basically spoilers.

I’ll close by saying if you've only ever seen the movie, you NEED to read this book. The sheer amount of work put forth by Michael Crichton makes you wonder if he was secretly cloning dinosaurs on the side.

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Mar 03, 2017 Kostas Papadatos rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Σίγουρα ένα μέρος το οποίο θα ήθελα να μεταφερθώ έστω και για λίγο, είναι ο κόσμος του Jurassic Park που έχτισε ο Michael Crichton. Ναι, γνωρίζω πως ανά πάσα στιγμή θα μπορούσαν να ρουφήξουν τους χυμούς μου κουνούπια με μέγεθος πελεκάνου, ώστε να ικανοποιήσουν τη δίψα τους ή να κολλήσω στο τεράστιο πέλμα ενός Βραχιόσαυρου. Who cares όμως. Δεινόσαυροι φίλε, δεινόσαυροι.
Όπως και ναχει, έναν ήρεμο καφέ στο πάρκο, καθισμένος σταυροπόδι, θα προλάβαινα να τον πάρω.

Καταπληκτικό βιβλίο που περνά ουσιώδη ...more

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Nov 30, 2018 AudioBookLover rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

It's freakin' Jurassic Park! What else is there to say? The guy who reads this does a good job. I give him and the book 5 stars.

Story *****
Audiobook *****

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Feb 01, 2017 Veronique rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2017, stars-4-0

Like many, I loved the film, and indeed its sequels. Who doesn’t like dinosaurs and rip-roaring adventure? I hadn’t however read the book that started it all...

Going through the pages, I couldn’t help trying to find the scenes that I knew so well. Most are there, but indeed in a different form due to the medium, the same applying to the characters. What fun to hear Malcolm’s Chaos theories and witness Grant’s survival!

This is a compelling thriller with a brilliant theme but somehow, having been ...more

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May 26, 2013 Jr Bacdayan rated it liked it · review of another edition

RAWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Imagine yourself a prey, being hunted by the one of the most deadliest predators that ever roamed the earth. The Tyrannosaurus Rex. About 30 feet of pure muscle with a massive head that contains the biggest set of teeth that could turn your flesh and bones into mush in one bite.

You are trapped. You have nowhere to go. Your entire body is shaking.

RAWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

You might or might not have peed in y ...more

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Sep 18, 2017 Nikoleta rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

«Ξέρεις, πόσο απίθανο είναι να φύγεις εσύ ή οποιοσδήποτε από εμάς ζωντανός απ’ αυτό το νησί;»
Κλασικός απολαυστικός Crihton, ο οποίος μας έχει συνηθίσει στο να συνδυάζει, τις επιστημονικές πληροφορίες, την άκρατη περιπέτεια και δράση και τα γεμάτα στοχασμό νοήματα, τα οποία συνήθως έχουν να κάνουν με την υπερβολή της επιστήμης και την αυτοκαταστροφική τάση του δυτικού πολιτισμού.
«Η επιστήμη πάντα έλεγε ότι μπορεί να μην ξέρει τώρα τι κάνει αλλά τελικά θα το μάθει. Σήμερα βλέπουμε ότι αυτό δεν είν ...more

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Jul 24, 2015 Mike rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, also-a-movie, book-club, reviewed, science, classics

Ah, Jurassic Park, a keystone moment in movie history where dinosaurs were brought to the silver screen in such an indelible way. I don't think it would be inaccurate to say the movie franchise (especially with the most recent entry of Jurassic World) has significantly overshadowed the book. Heck, I only just got to reading it now, 23 years after the movie was released. Having recently seen the movie, I was struck by the differences between the novel and the movie. Some changes were welcomed, ot ...more

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Michael Crichton (1942–2008) was one of the most successful novelists of his generation, admired for his meticulous scientific research and fast-paced narrative. He graduated summa cum laude and earned his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1969. His first novel, Odds On (1966), was written under the pseudonym John Lange and was followed by seven more Lange novels. He also wrote as Michael Dougla ...more