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Summary: Jurasic Park
Review: Island of Death
Realistic suspense. That's the way to describe Michael Crichton's book Jurassic Park. He combines realism with tension to make a great novel. The ingenious ideas and terrifying suspense make this book great.
The main characters run into countless problems through out the book. For example, the dinosaurs escape and terrorize the park. Once they dinosaurs start destroying the park, it was like a movie playing in front of my eyes. The characters increased the drama by narrowly escaping, most of the time. As well as bloodcurdling dinosaurs, the antagonist causes the suspense. He turns off the main power, to every electric object on the island. The main characters scramble to solve the problem. The complication in the plot fill the book with non-stop suspense.
This book is also filled with intelligent ideas, making the story realistic. For instance, the character, Ian Malcolm has complex theories through out the book. If I could change one part of the book it would be how intricate these theories were. It made the story boring, and hard to read. But, aside from that, how the dinosaurs were created was clever. The idea of dinosaurs today is far-fetched. But this made the story easier to believe. The cunning ideas in the novel help the story more believable.
This book was able to take a far-fetched idea, and create a riveting suspenseful novel. This book was fun to read and hard to put down. Due to clever ideas and vivid cinematic adventure, this book is a great choice to read
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Summary: Book Review
Review: Micheal Crichton's Jurassic Park is a great piece of writing. In Jurassic Park, an imaginative tale is told about dinosaurs being genetically engineered. A rich old man uses DNA from the blood of fossilized mosquitoes to bring dinosaurs back to life. The old man plans to open a theme park, Jurassic Park, with these dinosaurs as the main attraction. Before Jurassic Park is opened to the public, a group consisting of a paleontologist, a lawyer, a mathematician, and the old man's two grandchildren are given an exclusive tour of the park. Shortly after their arrival, total chaos breaks out when the dinosaurs start escaping.
Before reading the book, I watched the movie version. Putting aside the flashy eye-opening special effects of the movie version, it held on to the book's exciting storyline. Seeing the movie only made me want to read the book more. Once I picked up a copy of the book, I couldn't stop reading it until I finished. The book's storyline moved quickly and was full of action just like the movie. Unlike the movie, the book takes more time to develop characters as well as explain the detailed scientific process behind the dinosaur breeding. Yet, none of this takes away from the book's fast-paced adventure. The plot keeps the reader glued to book to find out what happens next and who will stay alive. Although, I found both versions of Jurassic Park to be very enjoyable, I highly recommend the book over the movie. Micheal Crichton's book truly allows your imagination to run wild with this thriller.
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Summary: A great read with a flaw
Review: Like many other books by author Michael Crichton, this book is a fascinating thriller regarding some aspect of technology gone wrong... in this case, cloning dinosaurs.Most everyone has at least seen the smash hit movie, so I won't go into too much detail. Basically, a scientist clones dinosaurs on an isolated island in the hopes of turning it into the world's most amazing theme park/zoo. But everything falls apart when a scheming computer programmer disables the park systems while stealing dinosaur embryos to sell. All in all, it's a great book. But there's a major flaw... two of the heros are kids. If you've seen the movie, you know who you're probably expecting... two fairly smart, nice kids who end up being chased by dinosaurs. The problem is, they're a brother and sister. And the sister, Lex, is a complete and total brat. I won't go into details of the scene where she's whining for ice cream when they're hiding from raptors in a cafeteria. By the end of the book you want to feed her to raptors. If Lex was more like she was in the movie, or completely cut from the book, it would be a five-star book as besides for that flaw it's a great book.
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Summary: something for everybody
Review: Books don't get made into movies without a reason. The "Lord of the rings" series got into theaters for the reason that it is an all-time favorite; and the "Harry Potter¡¨novels has its motion pictures for being a worldwide bestseller. Well, here's something you should know: three, THREE of Michael Crichton's (author of Jurassic Park) books were made into movies. Why? Because his stories carry all the fun, thrill, irresistible suspense, and intellectual knowledge you could possibly imagine experiencing in one book. And if you were kind enough to give the¡§Jurassic Park¡¨movie anything around a B, its book will definitely deserve an A+. There is something for everybody. For the sci-fi lovers, there's a section with plenty of details upon the out-of-your-mind idea on how the dinosaurs were created from a DNA strand obtained, and the science of cloning that seems so unbelievably real once you read it. Moreover, you are accompanied by a mathematician, who can impress you with his logical persuasiveness when discussing complex subjects that makes the chaos theory he talks about appear so easy. For those who crave for an action, thriller, and suspense combination, this is the one too. The feeling of not knowing what will suddenly jump out and the courageous attempt for the characters to escape the lethal dinasaurs' grasp can definitely fill your satisfaction. Even for those who would like to try a new book, especially one where they can read from beginning to end without ever wanting to stop, this is the perfect book. So, forget the movie. I've seen it too. But no matter how many times you've seen it on HBO, this book will draw you in and give you no breaks. Check it out at the library near you. It wont let you down.
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Summary: Quest for survival
Review: Jurassic Park a fast paced eventful nail bitting science fiction adventure by Michael Crichton. Did i forget thrilling. This indeed is an exciting and suspenseful read. It is one of those writing that interests one with its detailed plot and manages to maintain the interest along the way. Crichton explains the scientific detail quite well, which is why it has this addictive allure making it difficult to put down. The novel is a master piece which shy's Spieldbergs movie as an embarrassingly shallow cheap mimic. The setting is at a tropical island off the coast of Costa Rica named Isla Nubla. A determined mercenary John Hammond in midst of realizing his capitalistic dream. An adventure park on a theme of Safari but housing cloned dinosaurs. InGen a silicon valley based company have developed a novel approach for realization of this cloning. Dino's DNA is extracted from blood inside pre-historic mosquitoes that were trapped in tree sap and fossilized into amber. By this means the scientists have cloned a range of these extinct species, allowed to roam freely in their enclaves. To prevent procreation all dinosaurs are cloned females. Added precautions are taken that if by chance one beast manages to escape their demise is eventful due to a purposefully inserted genetic flaw. The flaw is their dependence on an amino acid lysine, which is provided as nutrients in their diet. Unaccounted, uncontrolled events lead to a break down of the defenses on the park. Much to the prediction of the chaos mathematician who arduously argues the infeasibility of the park, only to face a deaf ear of John. From entertainment the quest is now for survival as the carnivorous mammals roam freely preying on the helpless visitors. If amazon would allow me more stars, I would gladly gift them all to rate JP.
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Summary: Jurassic Park
Review: I have always enjoyed reading books by Michael Crichton, and this one is no different. He does a great job of keeping the reader involved.
When agroup of scientists are invited to an island, they did not know the adventure that they would soon embark. When they arrived, they found a park full of creatures that were thought to be extinct. Yes..... they were dinosours. Created by an old millionaire, with a love for the monsterous creatures, the park was designed in hopes of eventually becoming a high tech zoo. The scientists loved the park, until everything started to go wrong.
All in all, this is a great science fiction book that is enjoyable for people of all ages. It's a great read that makes you want to keep going. You can never anticipate what happens next. This is, in my opinion one of Crichton's best works.
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Summary: better than the movie
Review: The read was better than sitting thru hours of the read!!!
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Summary: A Realistic, Excellent Read
Review: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is an awesome book and defiantly his best book. It is a lot different from the movie but still as good. (...). This book is one of my favourites. He has to be blind to not think this is a great book. Anyway, I would recommend this book to anybody. (...)
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Summary: THE BEST EVER!!
Review: I love dinosaurs and this book was so scary and realistic, it was amazing! This is by far my favorite book!
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Summary: Movie was bad, but the book is worse
Review: What happens when you have a good idea for a premise but no plot? You get Jurassic Park. Michael Crichton's well-known novel is often hailed as an exciting thechnothriller and a warning against the excesses of science. I didn't find it to be either. First, the story is terrible. The setup has promise - an eccentric millionaire funds the creation of a park where dinosaurs come back to life. But that's not enough to make a novel - there has to be a plot. The plot forced upon this excellent premise is boring, pointless, repetitive and predictable. In high school I was told that all good plots have four parts, each represented by a section of a graph. During exposition the graph is flat, it increases during rising action, peaks at the climax and falls during denouement. Jurassic Park's such graph is a flat line that continues into oblivion. In short, the story goes nowhere fast. My biggest complain however is the novel's supposed message. It falls short of its lofty ambition of being a somber warning about abusing science and technology. All the bad things that happen in the book are a result of Nedry's sabotage and subsequent draws of bad luck - circumstances that would lead to disaster whether the dinos were present or not. So ultimately the book's message isn't "Don't play God" but rather "$#!% happens." There are many more things that are wrong with Jurassic Park: the bad science ("DNA is billions of genese long, but it'll be no problem to make the dinos yellow."), Ian Malcolm ("Western civilization and science is evil and stupid and so wrong about everything, and I'm so right."), contrived plot devices ("The computer won't detect any new dinos because it's programmed to return the user's input."), shallow characters, unimaginative writing, etc. But that's beside the point. The point is that this novel is a piece of trash whose only redeeming qualities are its good background story, its easy and unobtrusive style, and that it's easy to read and finish.
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