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Summary: A mixed review
Review: Jurassic Park has breathtaking action, detail and characters. I would give it 5 stars except for one drawback. The book is kind of bogged down with Malcom's speeches about chaos theory but moreover his endless lectures about how much he hates the human race and how terrible we are. Jurassic Park is 3/4 action novel the other 1/4 is Malcom's jabbering. Fortunately if you can look past this small problem the book is great. ...
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST I'VE EVER READ!!!
Review: SIMPLY AMAZING, EXELANT, I THINK THAT THIS IS MICHAEL CRICHTON'S BEST. I WOULD OF NEVER THOUGHT A BOOK WAS BETTER THAN A MOVIE. I HIGHLY RECOMEND THIS BOOK, FOR SICENCE FICTION LOVERS.
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Summary: JurassicPark
Review: Hello my friends! How are you doing? I have a question for you. Have you ever wished dinosaurs were alive? In this book your wish comes true. InGen has started an extremely special park in Isla Nublar wich is20000 miles west of Costa Rica. By extracting DNA from mosquitoes caught in amber they have brought back to life the dinosaurs. Dr.Hammond (president of InGen) has hired Alan Grant and Dr.Elli (2 paleontologists) and the scientist Dr.Ian Malcolm to go and look at the park before it's open to public. He hopes they decide to endorse the park. But when they get there things go wrong, terribly wrong.This book is filled with imagination and suspense. It will have you in the edge of your seat. Director Steven Spielberg made this book into a movie. This book is about how dangerous is for us, humans, to play with nature. If I could describe this book in 5 words they would be: Imaginative, suspenseful, amazing, intriguing, and clever. The author held my attention by showing me in detail each and every page of the book. This book was written by author Michael Crichton who also wrote its sequel: Jurassic Park: The Lost World. This book has different prices in different places but it is worth every penny, nickel, dime or quarter. And even if you don't want to read the book you can still go watch the movie. This book was fictious. The characters of this book are: Dr. Alan Grant, Dr. Elli, Dr.Hammond, Dr.Ian Malcolm, Lex and Tim, and Dr.Hammond's lawyer. This book has a lot of action too. I give it five hearts, I recommend this book to teens, adults, seniors, and to anyone who likes to read amazing books. Although you could just watch the movie. The End and Thank You.
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Summary: Hard Science meets Edgar Rice Burroughs
Review: Lets get this out of the way up front. This is one of the most fantastic novels I've ever read. Period. It is a perfect example of why I enjoy reading fiction in the first place. This book is a perfect mix of engaging mystery (right from the first page), speculative science, and action/adventure. Readers who enjoy everything from Scientific America to Indiana Jones and Edgar Rice Burroughs's lost world novels (remember The Land That Time Forgot?) will enjoy this book. One of the things that Mr. Crichton does in this novel is start with some solid science, mix in a bunch of greedy humans, some unpredictable weather, and a bunch of very hungry dinosaurs, and come up with a very plausible action story that builds from one level of suspense to another. The action never lets up until the very end of the book at the final climax. One of the things I really enjoyed about this story is how modern science is used to explain how an island populated with real dinosaurs could be created. One of the other things I truly enjoyed about this book is the depth of the characters. What Mr. Crichton has done here is to create a spectacular setting (an island filled with dinosaurs), populate it with some very short-sighted and greedy people, and then sit back as things inevitably go wrong. He even had the foresight to add a Chaos theorist who predicts the disasters that occur based on the Chaos Theory he works with. Beyond the setting and the characters, the events in this book are also a lot of fun, with one entertaining scene following another. The book starts out at a very fast pace (I won't spoil it here), and just keeps getting better and better. In fact, one of the most enchanting and exciting scenes in the book is the first time the main characters get to Isla Nublar and see actual dinosaurs. Naturally, things go wrong very quickly, and the balance of the book is spent with the characters being chased by a wide variety of dinosaurs bent on having them for lunch. Only blind luck, some very clever thinking, and a great deal of stamina keep any of them alive. And that's not even mentioning the boat-load of dinosaurs stowing away on a cargo ship heading for the mainland that the characters must stop before it's too late. For those of you who have read the book, and are thinking that this will be just a rehash of what's on the screen, don't. This book is so much richer and better than the movie (no criticism of the movie, mind you). So many crucial scenes were left out of the movie, some of which have been added in the sequels with less effect than they have in this book. And the ending is completely different from the movie (and, in my opinion, much better). If you enjoy an action story with a bit of hard science thrown in to explain things, this is definitely the book you'll want to read. If this is your first look at a book from Michael Crichton, don't hesitate any more. Buy it. Read it. You'll be hooked on his stuff for life!
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Summary: The best dinosaur/SF book
Review: This is one of my all time favorite Crichton novels ever. Crichton uses biotechnology in this thriller about cloning dinosaurs. The T-Rex and Velociraptor sequences are the best. It was full of real science and sounded like it could really happen.
Way better than the movie. The characters have stories to them and the book never will bore you. Crichton does a wonderful job of creating a amusement park gone wrong because of the Chaos Thereoy. There are differences from the movie and is a compelling novel to read. I recommend it to all dinosaur and/or SF fans.
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Summary: Fantastic park
Review: The velociraptors are the stars of this book, just as they were in the movie. Time and again they menace the human heroes, seeming all the more threatening because they are human-sized and can get inside buildings. As always, Crichton's human characters are a little on the uninteresting side, but that doesn't stop the plot from screaming along. The only recent dino novel I would give a higher rating is Hopp's new, "Dinosaur Wars." There, the human-sized, feathered megaraptors are even scarier than velociraptor, if that's possible, and the lead characters (a young man and woman) are a bit more engaging than Ian Malcolm. Still, Jurassic Park deserves high marks.
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Summary: Still relevant.
Review: Having been a Crichton fan for many years and finally opening ~Jurassic Park~ over the Christmas break was well worth the time and effort. I don't understand why I left it so long: probably the absurd amount of hype during its release and the subsequent film. A book or film that is on 'everyone's lips' and constantly advertised ad nausea, I have a tendency to avoid like the plague. In this case, it was a mistake. ~Jurassic Park~ is a beauty. It is no secret that Crichton has been endlessly criticised for formula-driven plots and one-dimensional characters. This may be true, but the formula works and his characters drive the story along. ~ Jurassic Park~ is one hell of a good idea for a book. Even though the novel is over a decade old, the premise is still as relevant as ever. Scientists bent on making 'the' discovery and not thinking about the consequences of their actions. I was reminded of what a scientist said on the Manhatten Project after exploding the A bomb in New Mexico before dropping it on Japan: "Now we're all son's of bitches." DNA research having altruistic potential to cure disease is one thing, but as ~Jurassic Park~ illustrates, there is a dark side to science, particularly when tinkering with the fundamentals of life. The Malcolm monologues, informed and cynical, are a pure delight. He communicates man's total arrogance when it comes to nature and the desire to control it. "When a hunter goes out in the rain forest to seek food for his family, does he expect to control nature? No. You decide you'll control nature, and from that moment on you're in trouble. You're powers are much less than your dreams of reason would have you believe." (351) After two books, ~Jurassic Park~ and ~The Lost World~, and three films, it is most likely people are overdosed on dinosaurs. But if you haven't read this book, take the plunge, for it is not only about Raptors and T-Rex's causing havoc. It's about the dangers of science, life and our modern views of the world. An enjoyable read.
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Summary: Wow, what a good read!
Review: Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton, is a highly technical, science thriller. Written two years before the subsequent movie was released, the main characters profession-and ultimately what gets the story going- on the works of paleontologist Jack Horner. Being far more technical than the movie, the novel uses a wide range of scientific information to support the very ficticious plot. Diagrams help to give the sense that your admiring a computer rather than a computer screen. Michael Crichton uses a variety of complex words to add to it's intense feel. The main point is clear, and concise from the beginning of the book. While some remark that why would you read a book there is already a movie of, I believe that the book is well worth reading.
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Summary: Jurassic Park
Review: This in my opinion was a horribly boring and stupid book, it jumped around too much in the beginning. I was happy to put the book down. It was a horrible assignment I was given for Bio. At the begin this little girl in Costa Rica gets bitten by a raptor and a baby gets its face bitten off by a raptor and a construction worker gets killed by a raptor and then you hear about the hupia. These stories are all told at the very beginning of the book as there own story. It jumps around to much. The best part of the book is the end when they leave the island because Jurassic Park failed to be successful. They learned there lesson for messing with nature and for being stupid enough to pick DNA from frogs that can change their sex.
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Summary: Doesn't Get Much Better
Review: oh wow, so cool....dinosaurs, and an entirely feasible way to bring them back...the movie pales in comparison to this novel the science behind JP is very cool...and the action, just when you think theyre safe, BOOM, here comes the TREX again!
this was one of those books that when you put it down, you notice your hand reaching for it unconsciously, because you need more...i was actually upset when i finished because it was over..Lost World is decent as far as sequels, but this book is just great! READ THIS BOOK
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