Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1) in Overdue Podcast

May 06, 2020 Hannah rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This is one of those books that I have known about, but never gotten around to reading. Thanks to COVID-19, I'm really branching out! And this book was a great find.

Dr. Alan Grant is called away from his dig in Montana to go and visit an island in Costa Rica for a "weekend of consultation", along with his colleague Ellie. They are joined by Ian Malcolm, a mathematician who waxes way too long about chaos theory. The three of them were consultants for John Hammond several years ago and he wants to This is one of those books that I have known about, but never gotten around to reading. Thanks to COVID-19, I'm really branching out! And this book was a great find.

Dr. Alan Grant is called away from his dig in Montana to go and visit an island in Costa Rica for a "weekend of consultation", along with his colleague Ellie. They are joined by Ian Malcolm, a mathematician who waxes way too long about chaos theory. The three of them were consultants for John Hammond several years ago and he wants to show them the fruits.

It turns out to be dinosaurs. John has created Jurassic Park, a theme park where people can see living dinosaurs. They have apatosaurous, triceratops, tyrannosaurus rex, and velociraptors. They have a lot more, but a lot of them are hard to spell! Any way, to complete the picture, John has invited his grandchildren as well.

And everything goes wrong. Some of it is sabotage, some of it is weather, and some of it is incompetence. People who don't understand exactly what it is they're dealing with. The one who understands everything the best at this point is Malcolm (the MATHEMATICIAN), but that's because he just keeps predicting that everything is going to go badly and it does.

I thought the book was great. Crichton does a great job with descriptions. He describes sounds, smells, and sights very vividly. I might have a little PTSD just from reading it! He has, of course, made the velociraptor famous and it has featured heavily in the other books and movies, but at this point it wasn't as famous as some of the other dinosaur counterparts so it was fun to read "the book that started it all". This book is great and even though it was long, I got through it pretty quickly.

I will admit that near the end, I started skimming through Malcolm's diatribes about chaos theory, how man sucks, etc. I'm impressed because (spoiler alert) he was injured and fighting for life and yet he was able to keep making such coherent speeches. Even though he was right, I was with everyone else when I wanted him to shut up. ...more

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May 13, 2021 Jayadevi Arjoon rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

After yeas of being a huge fan of the Jurassic Park movie, I finally decided to read the book, and it certainly did not disappoint! I enjoyed the more fleshed-out characterisation of Gennaro, Grant and Malcolm (though I will say that it feels like the author didn't do much service to his female characters). Crichton's descriptions of the dinos are quite detailed and vivid.

Overall I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and I'm secretly happy that it isn't going to detract from my enjoyment of the movies. ...more

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