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Jurassic Park
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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
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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Paperback, 448 pages
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September 25th 2012
by Ballantine Books
(first published November 7th 1990)
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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 stress ...more
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 stress ...more

May 02, 2018
Miranda Reads
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New week, New BookTube Video - all about the best (and worst) literary apocalypses to live through!
Jurassic Park has all the major problems of a theme park, a zoo...and genetically altered prehistoric animals.![]()
“Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.”
That's right - the dinosaurs are back from the dead and nothing - I repeat nothing - could go wrong...right?
Ha.
As my favorite character, Ia ...more

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 pr ...more
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 pr ...more

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

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. Th ...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. Th ...more

Here's my video review https://youtu.be/HZjuLbquNIU
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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 ...more
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 ...more


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 o ...more

Mar 20, 2016
Sr3yas
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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 thin ...more

Mar 07, 2018
Mario the lone bookwolf
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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 ...more
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 ...more

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 ...more
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 ...more

Mar 25, 2008
Brad
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really liked it
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review of another edition
Recommended to Brad by:
James Davie
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 ...more
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 ...more

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
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Feb 24, 2019
Chelsea Humphrey
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really liked it
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Sol ~ TheBookishKing
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Hey, did y'all know they made a movie out of this one?
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Oct 09, 2014
Kelly (and the Book Boar)
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it was amazing
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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 ...more

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 ...more

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
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

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
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

Aug 21, 2010
Simeon
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it was amazing
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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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Not literature, not amazing prose, but a true edge-of-your-seat thriller.

...more

I loved this book. The story is scary, action-packed, and kept me reading. Throughout the beginning and middle, there were a lot of similarities to the movie, but the entire last portion of the book was completely different, in a good way. Much like my opinion of Stephen King's IT and its 2017 film, I enjoyed both the book and movie here, despite having a great deal of differences between them. Despite having so many different dinosaurs and characters, I felt each had their own unique spotlight
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1Actually just a bit short of five stars in my opinion
Review of Kindle edition
Publication date: May 14, 2012
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Language: English
ASIN: B007UH4D3G
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 4349
466 pages
I would guess that the majority of the people in the world have heard of JURASSIC PARK. However, the group of JURASSIC PARK related books, movies and merchandising has become a world wide phenomenon based upon the success of the movies not this novel. The novel is good but not good enough or app ...more
Review of Kindle edition
Publication date: May 14, 2012
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Language: English
ASIN: B007UH4D3G
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 4349
466 pages
I would guess that the majority of the people in the world have heard of JURASSIC PARK. However, the group of JURASSIC PARK related books, movies and merchandising has become a world wide phenomenon based upon the success of the movies not this novel. The novel is good but not good enough or app ...more

That was an awesome audiobook!!!! Scott Brick did an amazing job!
I was 12 when I first saw this at the cinema, I loved it, and have watched every subsequent jurassic Park film. Chris Pratt anyone?! 👀
It was about time that I finally got around to reading the book which inspired Spielberg! I guess I was nervous, since I have enjoyed the films so much? Well I needn't have worried, this book was every bit as good as the film, although quite different in a lot of ways. The plot and action was actuall ...more
I was 12 when I first saw this at the cinema, I loved it, and have watched every subsequent jurassic Park film. Chris Pratt anyone?! 👀
It was about time that I finally got around to reading the book which inspired Spielberg! I guess I was nervous, since I have enjoyed the films so much? Well I needn't have worried, this book was every bit as good as the film, although quite different in a lot of ways. The plot and action was actuall ...more

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)
N ...more
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.

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

Sep 20, 2011
Nandakishore Varma
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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
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

Aug 01, 2020
Corina
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When I watched the movie Jurassic Park the first time around, it left quite an impression on me. I was a teenager when it was released and those raptors had me so paranoid that I was extremely jumpy when I came home that night. CRAZY bastards!!!
Years later, when I realized that the movie was actually based on a book, I had to check it out. And although it’s true that “the books are always better”, the movie was pretty amazing, even though it didn’t stay true to the book. But it makes the book al ...more
Years later, when I realized that the movie was actually based on a book, I had to check it out. And although it’s true that “the books are always better”, the movie was pretty amazing, even though it didn’t stay true to the book. But it makes the book al ...more

No one:
Literally no one:
Mrin at 3 am: HOW DID T REX SCRATCH THEIR KNEES????!!!
I have this T Rex toy..I tried bending that dude at various angles..still it couldn't reach its knee!!
I kinda felt bad for them...BUT then I remember that if Dino WOrld was real..T REX would be the Mean girls!! I swear by it!! They have the same look in their eyes !!
They could bully other Dinos as much as they wanted..BUT they can't even starch their knee
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If T-rex EVER come alive...THEY GONNA EAT ME FIRST F ...more
Literally no one:
Mrin at 3 am: HOW DID T REX SCRATCH THEIR KNEES????!!!
I have this T Rex toy..I tried bending that dude at various angles..still it couldn't reach its knee!!
I kinda felt bad for them...BUT then I remember that if Dino WOrld was real..T REX would be the Mean girls!! I swear by it!! They have the same look in their eyes !!
They could bully other Dinos as much as they wanted..BUT they can't even starch their knee
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If T-rex EVER come alive...THEY GONNA EAT ME FIRST F ...more

In 1993 my parents took me on vacation to Florida. It turned out to be a quite peculiar trip. First we had an emergency landing in Neufundland, because of a hole in the airplane. One I had a pretty good look at from where I was seated. Then there was a shark alert while we were at a Miami beach. And on our visit to the Universal Studios in Orlando we passed on the Jurassic Park attraction, because none of us had ever heard about it.
The shark turned out to be a ray. And while the hole in the airp ...more
The shark turned out to be a ray. And while the hole in the airp ...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 Doug
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