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Summary: Great Book leading to a great film
Review: After a seeing one the greatest films in living history, by the greatest film direator, i decided to read Jurassic park and I wasn't disappointed. As this could be the greatest book by the greatest author! Great book
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Summary: incredible
Review: While the scientific anchor is dubious, it's real enough for science fiction. Meanwhile check out the characters. So wonderfully multi-dimensional (this is where the movie falls miles short) My favorite of which has to be Ian Malcom, so realistic and passionate, Crichton is revealing an alter ego. (also there's an artful point of entry in Gennaro) Definately a must read.
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Summary: This is the best book I have ever read
Review: Jurassic Park is the best book I have ever read. I loved the characters and the plot. It had great writing and the ending was cool.
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: This is one of the best books I've ever read. The suspense eats you alive. Ignore the movie with the gaping plot holes, get the book: it's worth your money.
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Summary: Uncontrolled genetic engineering.
Review: In this novel, scientists use cloning, PCR techniques, and amphibian development to isolate dinosaur DNA from insects trapped in amber and to grow living dinosaurs for the ultimate in amusement parks. To garner support for the park, the developer has asked a number of scientists to visit and to evaluate the facilities and animals. One of these individuals is a mathematician whose field of expertice is chaos and catastrophe theory. Thus, the readers learns a little about molecular biology, paleontology, paleobotany, and an exciting new area of mathematics (a common characteristic of Dr. Crichton's novels that I find enjoyable is the education one receives over a wide area of topics). However, things go wrong and the reader is soon caught up in the adventure. But, I should point out that both the book and the 1994 film make some serious scientific errors, particularly in biochemistry and molecular biology. (For example, Dr. Crichton has his characters insert a genetic "flaw" into the DNA of the dinosaurs so that, if a dinosaur would escape, it could not survive in the "wild." The dinosaurs are made to be incapable of biosynthesizing the amino acid lysine. However, humans [and other mammals] also can't synthesize lysine! Lysine is one of the nutritionally essential amino acids [just ask any body builder who often supplement their diets with lysine tablets]. Nevertheless, humans are able to survive without this metabolic pathway!) But note that, even with thses flaws, I still gave the book five stars. These errors (and the "nonerrors") get readers to thinking about these exciting new fields of human endeavor. And, they start searching for the answers themselves. I see students doing this all the time. Crichton should be applauded. The book and the film also demonstrate the problems with uncontrolled genetic engineering.
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Summary: Very, very, very, very, very good!!
Review: Wow! The fact that it holds so scientific data and thrills you beyond all belief gives it five starts automatically!
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Summary: One of my favorites
Review: I wanted to read this book because I knew it was a famous book and made into a movie. I thought it just was a thriller that I wanted to read just to say I did it. However, I discovered that it was not a thriller at all. I didn't even look at it as a dramatic plot like the movie. I just saw it as a an exciting scientific explanation of artificially reproducing an exinct creature long ago.A much better ending than the movie had. In the book, the T-Rex did not come along and saved their lives, and then they just hop into a helicoptor and leave. John Hammond got killed by his own creation. The movie is good, but the book is a lot more clear, better charactor development, and more of the explanation instead of the dramatic scenes and special effects. If you love science, this is the perfect book with a moral that is disagreeing with science. One more thing: Thank Michael Chrichton because you can tell by reading it that he put a lot of effort, research, and knowledgement into his best-selling noval. Go! Read it!
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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: This is the best book I have ever read. It is very suspenseful and action packed. I read it in a few hours.
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Summary: A Very Important Work in the Realm of Hard S.F.
Review: The embodiment of Hard Science is in a character in J.P. named Ian Malcom whose farsightedness is a pure delight whenever he speaks in the novel. I especially enjoyed his, "..life will find a way.." speech. The plot is a tightly wound ball of string that as you read on begins to unravel until everything and everyone is engulfed in utter chaos. Another of Malcom's enjoyable speeches is on the nature of chaos. A very important work, that should have won a pulitzer. A little different from my style, though, so four instead of five stars will do.
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Summary: for sure it's a great book
Review: as an avid reader i really think this book has it made over all the other boks or stories i've read except gone with the wind, i really have to give this "book", not movie a 10 or 100 or whatever it takes to be noticed
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