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Summary: Blows The Movie Away
Review: It's a shame that a lot of people won't read this book because they saw the movie and thought it was stupid. Yes, it was a pretty good movie, but this book is a lot better, simply because it focuses more on the scientific and character development aspects, rather than pure thrills and suspense (not that there isn't any of that). Also, the movie didn't follow the book at all, there are many parallels between the two. What's cool about this book is that dinosaurs aren't definately a part of the story until over 100 pages into the book! Indeed, if the movie was not so famous and you had just read the book first, you might not have known it was about dinosaurs until rather far into it (but the title of course, gives it away). But just look at the explanation of how the dinosaurs were created, among the various other scientific aspects of the book, everything is explained in painstaking detail, without ever becoming boring. Crichton really did his homework on this one. If you are putting off reading this book because you think it is some stupid and unrealistic fantasy about the rebirth of dinosaurs, then not only are you totally wrong, you are missing out. This is a must read.
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Summary: Michael Crichton succeeds with an amzing novel!
Review: This is arguably the best Michael Crichton book ever! The story, revolving around a group of people trapped in an amusement park with no power and man-eating dinosaurs is kind of a combination of already invented themes, but none were ever executed so intelligently. Most of us know the story, so I won't go too much in detail. Dr. Grant and Ellie Sattler, scientists, visit Jurassic Park. With them are fellow scientists, engineers, and the old eccentric who created the park, John Hammond. When a planned power-outage goes wrong during the visit, tourists are trapped in the middle of the park with the dinosaurs, and the rest at the Visitor's Center are practically in a beseiged fortress. Like most great authors, whether Crichton intended it or not, his morals got into the book. All of the "villains" of the book die because of their sins, or rather, the people who created the park die, and Ian Malcolm, who spends much of the book half-dead, preaches to the others about what did go wrong and what is wrong with the world and what should be done about it, naturally with the "correct" solutions. I did agree with them, but it was the author's opinion. And at the hands of these scientists and engineers who created the park, several others meet a horrible fate. The ending wasn't meant to be cheerful, but this book left me with more than a visit to an already fascinating island of horror and fantasy. Michael Crichton really outdid himself when he wrote this book, and I have yet to meet someone who didn't like it.
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Summary: Michael Crichton succeeds with an amzing novel!
Review: This is arguably the best Michael Crichton book ever! The story, revolving around a group of people trapped in an amusement park with no power and man-eating dinosaurs in kind of a combination of already invented themes, but none were ever executed so intelligently. Most of us know the story, so I won't go too much in detail. Dr. Grant and Ellie Sattler, scientists, visit Jurassic Park. With them are fellow scientists, engineers, and the old eccentric who created the park, John Hammond. When a planned power-outage goes wrong during the visit, tourists are trapped in the middle of the park with the dinosaurs, and the rest at the Visitor's Center are practically in a beseiged fortress. Like most great authors, whether Crichton intended it or not, his morals got into the book. All of the "villains" of the book die because of their sins, or rather, the people who created the park die, and Ian Malcolm, who spends much of the book half-dead, preaches to the others about what did go wrong and what is wrong with the world and what should be done about it, naturally with the "correct" solutions. I did agree with them, but it was the author's opinion. And at the hands of these scientists and engineers who created the park, several others meet a horrible fate. The ending wasn't meant to be cheerful, but this book left me with more than a visit to an already fascinating island of horror and fantasy. Michael Crichton really outdid himself when he wrote this book, and I have yet to meet someone who didn't like it.
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Summary: Not The Greatest
Review: I feel that Mr.Crichton didn't put as much feeling in this book as he has done in his other novels.I feel that the chracter description wasn't the greatest.
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Summary: You'll Turn the Pages as Fast as a Raptor
Review: This book is great. Chrighton describes the dinosaurs, and elements for a great visual picture. The raptors supply a climax that has you scared of getting your stomach sliced open. In the back of your mind, you never forget about the T-Rex. As Tim, Allen, and Lex venture through the Island, you get the whole layout. Theres plent acton and suspense for most of the book. When theres not action, there's interesting information. The sequel is also great.
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Summary: puts the movie to shame
Review: The Spielberg movie was fun, but it doesn't begin to compare to Crichton's book in complexity, wonder, pacing, intelligence, character development, and (above all) suspense. This is simply one of the greatest thrillers I've ever read, dinosaurs or no dinosaurs. Crichton keeps ratcheting up the tension, far beyond what you would expect was possible. This has to be his finest book. There's a little bit of the misogyny that all but ruins "Disclosure" and "Sphere" for me, and some of the same corporate infighting that tried my patience in "Rising Sun" and his new time travel book, among others. The young girl character is this book has to be one of the most annoyingly sexist creations of the late twentieth century. Thank God they gave her character a rewrite before they filmed it; I was seriously afraid they would cast Mary Kate and Ashley Olson in the part, and I would have had to get up and walk out of the theater or else risk my brain exploding. But for once the flaws and eccentricities are completely submerged behind the flawless, brilliant execution of an astoundingly original and exciting concept. The author loves to preach about the perils of technology and the limitations of human cleverness, and genetic engineering, I have to say, provides him with a topic that fully warrants his skeptical attitude. If you only know "Jurassic Park" from the movie, you have no IDEA how much better and scarier the book will be. Brace yourself for the vicious juvenile t-rex and the ferocious pterosaurs (both scandalously missing from the big screen version) and don't say I didn't warn you.
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Summary: They should have used some things in this in the movie.
Review: There were a lot of great things in this, most of which were not used in the movie. The plot gets a little dull in the sceans with Ian Malcom, doing the only thing he knows how to do, TALK!
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Summary: Fast, Entertaining, and Intelligence Friendly
Review: This is one of those books that entertains you with great characters, an interesting premise, and manages to stimulate your brain and make you think in the process. I devoured this book because it kept me interested the whole way through... it was very hard to put down. Chrichton explains the scientific aspects of his book very well and in the process, manages to educate you, make you think, and perhaps give you some interest in new fields (I had never heard of Chaos Theory until this book.) This is far better than the cheap Spielberg movie that came after. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys to be entertained without choking down brain-dead material (a la most commercial fiction and bestsellers.) If you are not a science fiction fan, do not worry; I am not either, but I loved to book anyway. And I feel obligated to note that you should not judge this book based on Chriton's other works (as often can be done); The Andromeda Strain WAS awful, but this is not--I've also heard negative things about some of his other early works.
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Summary: Jurassic Park Review
Review: I like this book becouse it was a well written book. It had a lot of ke things that went together. It had many interesting things you have to think about. This book kept you interested and maade you read the whole thing. In the beggining of the book there were a few boring parts, but after a while it got very interesting. I recoment this book for people who have imagination and people who like action. by: Terry w.
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Summary: I couldn't put it down.
Review: boy was that a good book. Once I got the the exciting parts, I couldn't put it down.
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